Larry R Baas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1493097 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry R Baas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry R |
| FAMILY NAME | Baas |
| SIGNATURE | BAAS L R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Valparaiso University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Are Quests for a “Culture of Assessment” Mired in a “Culture War” Over Assessment? A Q-Methodological Inquiry
The “Assessment Movement” in higher education has generated some of the most wide-ranging and heated discussions that the academy has experienced in a while. On the one hand, accrediting agencies, prospective and current clientele, and the public-at-large have a clear vested interest in ensuring that colleges and universities actually deliver on the student learning outcomes that they promise. Anything less would be tantamount to a failure of ins…
Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House
The Postelection Campaign
This research examines the "contested character" of Bill Clinton's victory in the 1992 election through an application of Q technique and its methodology. A Q-sample comprised of pundits' reflections on the election was sorted by political scientists, journalists, and partisan activists in addition to a sampling of ordinary citizens. Results disclose four distinct versions of Clinton's victory, each with a different story to tell about the electi…
Ronald Reagan in the Public Mind
The viability of Alford's recent psychoanalytic account of Ronald Reagan's popularity is examined through an application of Q methodology. Results from two studies, in which separate Q-samples were constructed theoretically around Alford's formulation, show the presence of two rather antithetical retrospectives on the Reagan Presidency and the nature of leadership underlying it. The meaning and structure of these accounts are examined with an eye…
Mr. Justice Rehnquist, Judicial Activist
The Primary Sources of Meaning of a Secondary Symbol
Harold Lasswell noted that the vague, diffuse, and distant symbols of the secondary political world, such as the Constitution, are often elaborated and take on personal meaning to the individual as a result of a process of displacement of some image from the primary world. In a previous, intensive study, it was demonstrated how this process operated with reference to a benevolent and deferential view of the U.S. Constitution. The purpose of this …
Public Evaluations of the President
identification, a concept neglected in the mainstream political science literature, emerges alongside policy proximity and partisanship as a strong predictor of assessments of President Reagan's performance in office. The concluding discussion centers on the implications of this finding for our understanding of the specific linkage between the president and the public and for our more general understanding of the dynamics of political behavior
Personality and Political Participation
Rival accounts of the relation between personality adjustment, e.g., psychic fulfillment, self-actualizarion, and the like, and political participation are summarized, and the notion of self-ideal congruence introduced as an independent variable of relevance. The latter, as an aspect of self-actualization, was then investigated for its relationship to political participation. Findings from a sample of 85 college students did not conform to expect…
The Constitution as Symbol
Harold Lasswell, among others, has noted that the vague, diffuse, and distant symbols of the secondary political world, such as the Constitution, are elaborated and take on personal meaning to the individual as a result of a process of displacement or projection of some image from the primary world. To examine whether such a process mediates between primary and secondary worlds, one subject was selected and asked to describe her images of 25 obje…
Judicial Role Perceptions
In its broadest sense, the concept of role includes all the institutional (structural), behavioral, and functional interrelationships involved in the activities of political actors holding membership in an institutionalized group (Wahlke, 1962: 7-28). The role concept emphasizes and rests upon the relationship of one actor to other actors; taken together, these relationships comprise a set of norms which govern the behavior of the holder of a par…
The Constitution as Symbol
Harold Lasswell, among others, has noted that the vague, diffuse, and distant symbols of the secondary political world, such as the Constitution, are elaborated and take on personal meaning to the individual as a result of a process of displacement or projection of some image from the primary world. To examine whether such a process mediates between primary and secondary worlds, one subject was selected and asked to describe her images of 25 obje…
Judicial Role Perceptions
In its broadest sense, the concept of role includes all the institutional (structural), behavioral, and functional interrelationships involved in the activities of political actors holding membership in an institutionalized group (Wahlke, 1962: 7-28). The role concept emphasizes and rests upon the relationship of one actor to other actors; taken together, these relationships comprise a set of norms which govern the behavior of the holder of a par…
Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House
Public Evaluations of the President
identification, a concept neglected in the mainstream political science literature, emerges alongside policy proximity and partisanship as a strong predictor of assessments of President Reagan's performance in office. The concluding discussion centers on the implications of this finding for our understanding of the specific linkage between the president and the public and for our more general understanding of the dynamics of political behavior
The Postelection Campaign
This research examines the "contested character" of Bill Clinton's victory in the 1992 election through an application of Q technique and its methodology. A Q-sample comprised of pundits' reflections on the election was sorted by political scientists, journalists, and partisan activists in addition to a sampling of ordinary citizens. Results disclose four distinct versions of Clinton's victory, each with a different story to tell about the electi…
The Primary Sources of Meaning of a Secondary Symbol
Harold Lasswell noted that the vague, diffuse, and distant symbols of the secondary political world, such as the Constitution, are often elaborated and take on personal meaning to the individual as a result of a process of displacement of some image from the primary world. In a previous, intensive study, it was demonstrated how this process operated with reference to a benevolent and deferential view of the U.S. Constitution. The purpose of this …
Judicial Role Perceptions
In its broadest sense, the concept of role includes all the institutional (structural), behavioral, and functional interrelationships involved in the activities of political actors holding membership in an institutionalized group (Wahlke, 1962: 7-28). The role concept emphasizes and rests upon the relationship of one actor to other actors; taken together, these relationships comprise a set of norms which govern the behavior of the holder of a par…
Personality and Political Participation
Rival accounts of the relation between personality adjustment, e.g., psychic fulfillment, self-actualizarion, and the like, and political participation are summarized, and the notion of self-ideal congruence introduced as an independent variable of relevance. The latter, as an aspect of self-actualization, was then investigated for its relationship to political participation. Findings from a sample of 85 college students did not conform to expect…
The Constitution as Symbol
Harold Lasswell, among others, has noted that the vague, diffuse, and distant symbols of the secondary political world, such as the Constitution, are elaborated and take on personal meaning to the individual as a result of a process of displacement or projection of some image from the primary world. To examine whether such a process mediates between primary and secondary worlds, one subject was selected and asked to describe her images of 25 obje…
The Primary Sources of Meaning of a Secondary Symbol
Harold Lasswell noted that the vague, diffuse, and distant symbols of the secondary political world, such as the Constitution, are often elaborated and take on personal meaning to the individual as a result of a process of displacement of some image from the primary world. In a previous, intensive study, it was demonstrated how this process operated with reference to a benevolent and deferential view of the U.S. Constitution. The purpose of this …
Public Evaluations of the President
identification, a concept neglected in the mainstream political science literature, emerges alongside policy proximity and partisanship as a strong predictor of assessments of President Reagan's performance in office. The concluding discussion centers on the implications of this finding for our understanding of the specific linkage between the president and the public and for our more general understanding of the dynamics of political behavior
Mr. Justice Rehnquist, Judicial Activist
Ronald Reagan in the Public Mind
The viability of Alford's recent psychoanalytic account of Ronald Reagan's popularity is examined through an application of Q methodology. Results from two studies, in which separate Q-samples were constructed theoretically around Alford's formulation, show the presence of two rather antithetical retrospectives on the Reagan Presidency and the nature of leadership underlying it. The meaning and structure of these accounts are examined with an eye…
The Postelection Campaign
This research examines the "contested character" of Bill Clinton's victory in the 1992 election through an application of Q technique and its methodology. A Q-sample comprised of pundits' reflections on the election was sorted by political scientists, journalists, and partisan activists in addition to a sampling of ordinary citizens. Results disclose four distinct versions of Clinton's victory, each with a different story to tell about the electi…
Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House
Are Quests for a “Culture of Assessment” Mired in a “Culture War” Over Assessment? A Q-Methodological Inquiry
The “Assessment Movement” in higher education has generated some of the most wide-ranging and heated discussions that the academy has experienced in a while. On the one hand, accrediting agencies, prospective and current clientele, and the public-at-large have a clear vested interest in ensuring that colleges and universities actually deliver on the student learning outcomes that they promise. Anything less would be tantamount to a failure of ins…
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