William M Bowen
Biographic Data
| ID | 139379 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William M Bowen |
| GIVEN NAMES | William M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowen |
| SIGNATURE | BOWEN W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cleveland State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2848-6519 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Toe the line or walk the plank? Principled bureaucracy under Trump 2.0
Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States
This study investigates the effects of electric utility restructuring on (a) the cost of generated electricity, (b) increases in the regulated portions of customers' bills, and (c) changes in customers’ average total electricity price in restructured states relative to similar states that remained regulated. The results across the tests indicate that restructured generation markets benefited consumers through lower price growth or price declines.…
Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevon’s Paradox
Determinants and Evaluation of Local Energy‐Efficiency Initiatives from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
This article examines variation in local‐level energy‐efficiency grants and corresponding initiatives from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) in the United States. The analysis is based upon a hurdle model of counts of energy‐efficiency grants received by 348 local governments that received these grants from 2009 to 2013, as well as 348 matched local governments that did not receive such funds. City‐level characteristics including …
The Evolution of Human Settlements: From Pleistocene Origins to Anthropocene Prospects
Environmental justice and rational choice theory
Rational choice theory is a framework for understanding social and economic behaviour. It can be applied in making policy or taking action for environmental justice. To either make policy or take action for environmental justice requires decisions, some of which are about what to believe, some about what to prefer, and some about what to say or do. Rational choice theory claims to describe these decisions and prescribe ways to improve the process…
Challenges in large-scale government-led sustainable development: The case of the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project
The Four Major Rivers Restoration Project (FMRRP) was a large-scale, government-led river restoration project in South Korea. This research documents and analyses the FMRRP to better understand the challenges in planning and implementing such projects. The ‘planner’s triangle’ is the conceptual framework around which we organised the relationships and conflicts between stakeholders, one that acknowledges the environmental, economic and equity asp…
Are You Scared Yet? On the Ethic of Sustainability and the Politics of Fear in Public Administration
This article offers a critical examination of the ethic of sustainability. It argues that, notwithstanding the importance of environmental problems, such an ethic has the effect of promoting a politics of fear by emphasizing our fears about human survival and security. As such, despite its attractions, an ethic of sustainability for public administration reinforces already deeply embedded antipolitical ways of thinking within the field that ignor…
Social and Demographic Dimensions of Sex Selection Technologies: Review and Analysis of the Research Literature
Using the Thomson Reuters Web of Science, we analytically reviewed existing research from the past 30 years on the social and demographic dimensions of sex selection technologies. Through content analysis and bibliometric analysis, we investigated publications in four categories: description, attitudes, demographics, and policy. Our results leave little doubt that individual choices and, in some instances, public policies have the potential to br…
Response to “The History in Urban Studies: A Comment”
The purpose of our paper “What is Urban Studies?” was to provide a general empirical description of the field, from its origin to the present. We sought to approach this problem as systematically a
What Is “Urban Studies”? Context, Internal Structure, and Content
The record of learned concern with cities is nearly as old as the city itself. In the past several decades, however, a distinct academic field of “Urban Studies” has emerged. This article characterizes the context, internal structure, and content of the field through interviews with leading scholars, probabilistic multidimensional scaling analyses of survey data, and a content analysis of a leading journal. The article concludes that although Urb…
An Analytical Review of Environmental Justice Research: What Do We Really Know?
Environmental Justice Through Research-Based Decision-Making
Part I: Research Based Policy and Administrative Decisions for Environmental Justice 1: Background on Environmental Justice Department 2: Policy and Administrative Decisions 3: Major Terms and Concepts in the Discourse 4: A Primer on Empirical Research Methods for Environmental Justice 5: Design and the Validity of Environmental Justice Research Part II: Empirical Foundations of Environmental Justice 6: A Critical Review of the Empirical Research…
The Politics and Reality of Environmental Justice: A History and Considerations for Public Administrators and Policy Makers
This article provides a short history of the environmental justice movement in the United States and discusses four dominant problems in environmental justice discourse. It also will discuss three other aspects of the environmental discourse: weak empirical research; the failure to recognize the distinction between hazard and risk; and the possibility that environmental justice is more about fear, blame, procedural inclusion, and power politics t…
Intelligent transportation systems benefit priorities: An application to the Woodrow Wilson bridge
Toward Environmental Justice: Spatial Equity in Ohio and Cleveland
A growing body of research documents the inequitable impact of environmental hazards on poor and minority communities. This paper uses the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory for 1987–1990 and the 1990 Census of Population and Housing to analyze the spatial distribution of toxic industrial pollution and demographic groups in Ohio. In apparent support of the previous body of research, we report high correlations…
"Mainstream" Public Administration over Time: A Topical Content Analysis of Public Administration Review
This article focuses on the question, how have the theoretical and substantive concerns of the public administration community changed over time? in other words: What is mainstream public administration and how has it changed? To answer this question, we analyzed the contents of a sample of over 50 years of PAR articles. The Classification Scheme Content analysis presupposes the existence of a scheme of content categories for use in text classifi…
The Performance of State Economic Development Programs: An impact Evaluation
Managing the Environmental Crisis
Arendt, Hannah, 1970. On Violence. New York: Viking Press. Austin, John, 1965.. How to Do Things Witb Words. New York: Oxford University Press. Bernstein, Richard J., 1983. Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Derrida, Jacques, 1978. Writing and Difference. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Fay, Brian, 1987 CriticalSocialScience. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.…
Toward Environmental Justice: Spatial Equity in Ohio and Cleveland
A growing body of research documents the inequitable impact of environmental hazards on poor and minority communities. This paper uses the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory for 1987–1990 and the 1990 Census of Population and Housing to analyze the spatial distribution of toxic industrial pollution and demographic groups in Ohio. In apparent support of the previous body of research, we report high correlations…
"Mainstream" Public Administration over Time: A Topical Content Analysis of Public Administration Review
This article focuses on the question, how have the theoretical and substantive concerns of the public administration community changed over time? in other words: What is mainstream public administration and how has it changed? To answer this question, we analyzed the contents of a sample of over 50 years of PAR articles. The Classification Scheme Content analysis presupposes the existence of a scheme of content categories for use in text classifi…
What Is “Urban Studies”? Context, Internal Structure, and Content
The record of learned concern with cities is nearly as old as the city itself. In the past several decades, however, a distinct academic field of “Urban Studies” has emerged. This article characterizes the context, internal structure, and content of the field through interviews with leading scholars, probabilistic multidimensional scaling analyses of survey data, and a content analysis of a leading journal. The article concludes that although Urb…
Determinants and Evaluation of Local Energy‐Efficiency Initiatives from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
This article examines variation in local‐level energy‐efficiency grants and corresponding initiatives from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) in the United States. The analysis is based upon a hurdle model of counts of energy‐efficiency grants received by 348 local governments that received these grants from 2009 to 2013, as well as 348 matched local governments that did not receive such funds. City‐level characteristics including …
Managing the Environmental Crisis
Arendt, Hannah, 1970. On Violence. New York: Viking Press. Austin, John, 1965.. How to Do Things Witb Words. New York: Oxford University Press. Bernstein, Richard J., 1983. Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Derrida, Jacques, 1978. Writing and Difference. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Fay, Brian, 1987 CriticalSocialScience. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.…
Toe the line or walk the plank? Principled bureaucracy under Trump 2.0
Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevon’s Paradox
The Evolution of Human Settlements: From Pleistocene Origins to Anthropocene Prospects
Are You Scared Yet? On the Ethic of Sustainability and the Politics of Fear in Public Administration
This article offers a critical examination of the ethic of sustainability. It argues that, notwithstanding the importance of environmental problems, such an ethic has the effect of promoting a politics of fear by emphasizing our fears about human survival and security. As such, despite its attractions, an ethic of sustainability for public administration reinforces already deeply embedded antipolitical ways of thinking within the field that ignor…
Response to “The History in Urban Studies: A Comment”
The purpose of our paper “What is Urban Studies?” was to provide a general empirical description of the field, from its origin to the present. We sought to approach this problem as systematically a
The Performance of State Economic Development Programs: An impact Evaluation
Managing the Environmental Crisis
Arendt, Hannah, 1970. On Violence. New York: Viking Press. Austin, John, 1965.. How to Do Things Witb Words. New York: Oxford University Press. Bernstein, Richard J., 1983. Beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Derrida, Jacques, 1978. Writing and Difference. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Fay, Brian, 1987 CriticalSocialScience. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.…
"Mainstream" Public Administration over Time: A Topical Content Analysis of Public Administration Review
This article focuses on the question, how have the theoretical and substantive concerns of the public administration community changed over time? in other words: What is mainstream public administration and how has it changed? To answer this question, we analyzed the contents of a sample of over 50 years of PAR articles. The Classification Scheme Content analysis presupposes the existence of a scheme of content categories for use in text classifi…
The Performance of State Economic Development Programs: An impact Evaluation
Toward Environmental Justice: Spatial Equity in Ohio and Cleveland
A growing body of research documents the inequitable impact of environmental hazards on poor and minority communities. This paper uses the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Toxic Release Inventory for 1987–1990 and the 1990 Census of Population and Housing to analyze the spatial distribution of toxic industrial pollution and demographic groups in Ohio. In apparent support of the previous body of research, we report high correlations…
Intelligent transportation systems benefit priorities: An application to the Woodrow Wilson bridge
An Analytical Review of Environmental Justice Research: What Do We Really Know?
Environmental Justice Through Research-Based Decision-Making
Part I: Research Based Policy and Administrative Decisions for Environmental Justice 1: Background on Environmental Justice Department 2: Policy and Administrative Decisions 3: Major Terms and Concepts in the Discourse 4: A Primer on Empirical Research Methods for Environmental Justice 5: Design and the Validity of Environmental Justice Research Part II: Empirical Foundations of Environmental Justice 6: A Critical Review of the Empirical Research…
The Politics and Reality of Environmental Justice: A History and Considerations for Public Administrators and Policy Makers
This article provides a short history of the environmental justice movement in the United States and discusses four dominant problems in environmental justice discourse. It also will discuss three other aspects of the environmental discourse: weak empirical research; the failure to recognize the distinction between hazard and risk; and the possibility that environmental justice is more about fear, blame, procedural inclusion, and power politics t…
What Is “Urban Studies”? Context, Internal Structure, and Content
The record of learned concern with cities is nearly as old as the city itself. In the past several decades, however, a distinct academic field of “Urban Studies” has emerged. This article characterizes the context, internal structure, and content of the field through interviews with leading scholars, probabilistic multidimensional scaling analyses of survey data, and a content analysis of a leading journal. The article concludes that although Urb…
Response to “The History in Urban Studies: A Comment”
The purpose of our paper “What is Urban Studies?” was to provide a general empirical description of the field, from its origin to the present. We sought to approach this problem as systematically a
Social and Demographic Dimensions of Sex Selection Technologies: Review and Analysis of the Research Literature
Using the Thomson Reuters Web of Science, we analytically reviewed existing research from the past 30 years on the social and demographic dimensions of sex selection technologies. Through content analysis and bibliometric analysis, we investigated publications in four categories: description, attitudes, demographics, and policy. Our results leave little doubt that individual choices and, in some instances, public policies have the potential to br…
Environmental justice and rational choice theory
Rational choice theory is a framework for understanding social and economic behaviour. It can be applied in making policy or taking action for environmental justice. To either make policy or take action for environmental justice requires decisions, some of which are about what to believe, some about what to prefer, and some about what to say or do. Rational choice theory claims to describe these decisions and prescribe ways to improve the process…
Challenges in large-scale government-led sustainable development: The case of the Four Major Rivers Restoration Project
The Four Major Rivers Restoration Project (FMRRP) was a large-scale, government-led river restoration project in South Korea. This research documents and analyses the FMRRP to better understand the challenges in planning and implementing such projects. The ‘planner’s triangle’ is the conceptual framework around which we organised the relationships and conflicts between stakeholders, one that acknowledges the environmental, economic and equity asp…
Are You Scared Yet? On the Ethic of Sustainability and the Politics of Fear in Public Administration
This article offers a critical examination of the ethic of sustainability. It argues that, notwithstanding the importance of environmental problems, such an ethic has the effect of promoting a politics of fear by emphasizing our fears about human survival and security. As such, despite its attractions, an ethic of sustainability for public administration reinforces already deeply embedded antipolitical ways of thinking within the field that ignor…
Vehicle fuel economy and vehicle miles traveled: An empirical investigation of Jevon’s Paradox
Determinants and Evaluation of Local Energy‐Efficiency Initiatives from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
This article examines variation in local‐level energy‐efficiency grants and corresponding initiatives from the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) in the United States. The analysis is based upon a hurdle model of counts of energy‐efficiency grants received by 348 local governments that received these grants from 2009 to 2013, as well as 348 matched local governments that did not receive such funds. City‐level characteristics including …
The Evolution of Human Settlements: From Pleistocene Origins to Anthropocene Prospects
Consumer price effects of deregulated electric generation markets: The case of Ohio and the midwestern United States
This study investigates the effects of electric utility restructuring on (a) the cost of generated electricity, (b) increases in the regulated portions of customers' bills, and (c) changes in customers’ average total electricity price in restructured states relative to similar states that remained regulated. The results across the tests indicate that restructured generation markets benefited consumers through lower price growth or price declines.…
Toe the line or walk the plank? Principled bureaucracy under Trump 2.0
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Environmental justice (5 works) · Geography (5 works)