Kurt Taylor Gaubatz
Biographic Data
| ID | 2009496 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kurt Taylor Gaubatz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kurt Taylor |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaubatz |
| SIGNATURE | GAUBATZ K T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 325 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Political Groups, Coordination Costs, and Credible Communication in the Shadow of Power
IN HIS SEMINAL WORK Domination and the Arts of Resistance, James Scott shows how groups in subordinate power relationships, such as slaves, are often unable to express their dissatisfaction with the actions of a dominant group overtly.1 This constitutes proscribed discourse, or statements that would incur punishment if observed by the dominant group. Instead, Scott argues, dissatisfied subordinates maintain “hidden transcripts”—covert communicati…
A Survivor's Guide to R: An Introduction for the Uninitiated and the Unnerved
Survivor's Guide to R: An Introduction for the Uninitiated and the Unnerved
Focusing on developing practical R skills rather than teaching pure statistics, Dr. Kurt Taylor Gaubatz's A Survivor's Guide to R provides a gentle yet thorough introduction to R. The book is structured around critical R tasks, and focuses on applied knowledge, rather than abstract concepts. Gaubatz's easy-to-read approach helps students with little or no background in statistics or programming to develop real-world R skills through straightforwa…
Reducing Uncertainty: Information Analysis for Comparative Case Studies
The increasing integration of qualitative and quantitative analysis has largely focused on the benefits of in-depth case studies for enhancing our understanding of statistical results. This article goes in the other direction to show how some very straightforward quantitative methods drawn from information theory can strengthen comparative case studies. Using several prominent “structured, focused comparison” studies, we apply the information-the…
The Hobbesian Problem and the Microfoundations of International Relations
Political competition and foreign policy power sharing
In this essay I examine the intersection of domestic and international politics in the formation and conduct of foreign policy. 1 develop a three‐actor model that allows us to specify the incentives for power sharing under different assumptions about the distribution of preferences and capabilities between a government, a domestic opposition, and a foreign state. The model generates several interesting hypotheses about the interaction of policy g…
Kant, Democracy, and History
Kant, Democracy, and History Kurt Taylor Gaubatz (bio) In his essay “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent” (1784), Immanuel Kant predicted that republican forms of government would eventually dominate the world. This, he wrote, was part of nature’s “secret plan”: The “cosmopolitan goal” of history was the general enlightenment of humanity and the universalization of republicanism as the basis of social organization. 1 Kant’s pr…
Democratic states and commitment in international relations
Making credible commitments is a formidable problem for states in the anarchic international system. A long-standing view holds that this is particularly true for democratic states in which changeable public preferences make it difficult for leaders to sustain commitments over time. However, a number of important elements in the values and institutions that have characterized the liberal democratic states should enhance their ability to sustain i…
Intervention and Intransitivity: Public Opinion, Social Choice, and the Use of Military Force Abroad
This article argues that the problems identified in the literature on public choice should critically affect our research on public opinion and our understanding of the impact of public opinion on foreign policy. While a robust literature has emerged around social choice issues in political science, there has been remarkably little appreciation for these problems in the literature on public opinion in general and on public opinion and foreign pol…
Election Cycles and War
Insight into the effect of domestic factors on the international conflict behavior of democratic states can be garnered from treating electoral cycles as cycles in the relative power of state and society. This article shows that there is a discernible relationship between election cycles and the behavior of democratic states in international conflicts. In the past 200 years, democratic states have tended to get into relatively more wars early in …
Democratic states and commitment in international relations
Making credible commitments is a formidable problem for states in the anarchic international system. A long-standing view holds that this is particularly true for democratic states in which changeable public preferences make it difficult for leaders to sustain commitments over time. However, a number of important elements in the values and institutions that have characterized the liberal democratic states should enhance their ability to sustain i…
Election Cycles and War
Insight into the effect of domestic factors on the international conflict behavior of democratic states can be garnered from treating electoral cycles as cycles in the relative power of state and society. This article shows that there is a discernible relationship between election cycles and the behavior of democratic states in international conflicts. In the past 200 years, democratic states have tended to get into relatively more wars early in …
Intervention and Intransitivity: Public Opinion, Social Choice, and the Use of Military Force Abroad
This article argues that the problems identified in the literature on public choice should critically affect our research on public opinion and our understanding of the impact of public opinion on foreign policy. While a robust literature has emerged around social choice issues in political science, there has been remarkably little appreciation for these problems in the literature on public opinion in general and on public opinion and foreign pol…
Reducing Uncertainty: Information Analysis for Comparative Case Studies
The increasing integration of qualitative and quantitative analysis has largely focused on the benefits of in-depth case studies for enhancing our understanding of statistical results. This article goes in the other direction to show how some very straightforward quantitative methods drawn from information theory can strengthen comparative case studies. Using several prominent “structured, focused comparison” studies, we apply the information-the…
Political competition and foreign policy power sharing
In this essay I examine the intersection of domestic and international politics in the formation and conduct of foreign policy. 1 develop a three‐actor model that allows us to specify the incentives for power sharing under different assumptions about the distribution of preferences and capabilities between a government, a domestic opposition, and a foreign state. The model generates several interesting hypotheses about the interaction of policy g…
Kant, Democracy, and History
Kant, Democracy, and History Kurt Taylor Gaubatz (bio) In his essay “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent” (1784), Immanuel Kant predicted that republican forms of government would eventually dominate the world. This, he wrote, was part of nature’s “secret plan”: The “cosmopolitan goal” of history was the general enlightenment of humanity and the universalization of republicanism as the basis of social organization. 1 Kant’s pr…
Political Groups, Coordination Costs, and Credible Communication in the Shadow of Power
IN HIS SEMINAL WORK Domination and the Arts of Resistance, James Scott shows how groups in subordinate power relationships, such as slaves, are often unable to express their dissatisfaction with the actions of a dominant group overtly.1 This constitutes proscribed discourse, or statements that would incur punishment if observed by the dominant group. Instead, Scott argues, dissatisfied subordinates maintain “hidden transcripts”—covert communicati…
The Hobbesian Problem and the Microfoundations of International Relations
Election Cycles and War
Insight into the effect of domestic factors on the international conflict behavior of democratic states can be garnered from treating electoral cycles as cycles in the relative power of state and society. This article shows that there is a discernible relationship between election cycles and the behavior of democratic states in international conflicts. In the past 200 years, democratic states have tended to get into relatively more wars early in …
Intervention and Intransitivity: Public Opinion, Social Choice, and the Use of Military Force Abroad
This article argues that the problems identified in the literature on public choice should critically affect our research on public opinion and our understanding of the impact of public opinion on foreign policy. While a robust literature has emerged around social choice issues in political science, there has been remarkably little appreciation for these problems in the literature on public opinion in general and on public opinion and foreign pol…
Kant, Democracy, and History
Kant, Democracy, and History Kurt Taylor Gaubatz (bio) In his essay “Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Intent” (1784), Immanuel Kant predicted that republican forms of government would eventually dominate the world. This, he wrote, was part of nature’s “secret plan”: The “cosmopolitan goal” of history was the general enlightenment of humanity and the universalization of republicanism as the basis of social organization. 1 Kant’s pr…
Democratic states and commitment in international relations
Making credible commitments is a formidable problem for states in the anarchic international system. A long-standing view holds that this is particularly true for democratic states in which changeable public preferences make it difficult for leaders to sustain commitments over time. However, a number of important elements in the values and institutions that have characterized the liberal democratic states should enhance their ability to sustain i…
Political competition and foreign policy power sharing
In this essay I examine the intersection of domestic and international politics in the formation and conduct of foreign policy. 1 develop a three‐actor model that allows us to specify the incentives for power sharing under different assumptions about the distribution of preferences and capabilities between a government, a domestic opposition, and a foreign state. The model generates several interesting hypotheses about the interaction of policy g…
The Hobbesian Problem and the Microfoundations of International Relations
Survivor's Guide to R: An Introduction for the Uninitiated and the Unnerved
Focusing on developing practical R skills rather than teaching pure statistics, Dr. Kurt Taylor Gaubatz's A Survivor's Guide to R provides a gentle yet thorough introduction to R. The book is structured around critical R tasks, and focuses on applied knowledge, rather than abstract concepts. Gaubatz's easy-to-read approach helps students with little or no background in statistics or programming to develop real-world R skills through straightforwa…
Reducing Uncertainty: Information Analysis for Comparative Case Studies
The increasing integration of qualitative and quantitative analysis has largely focused on the benefits of in-depth case studies for enhancing our understanding of statistical results. This article goes in the other direction to show how some very straightforward quantitative methods drawn from information theory can strengthen comparative case studies. Using several prominent “structured, focused comparison” studies, we apply the information-the…
A Survivor's Guide to R: An Introduction for the Uninitiated and the Unnerved
Political Groups, Coordination Costs, and Credible Communication in the Shadow of Power
IN HIS SEMINAL WORK Domination and the Arts of Resistance, James Scott shows how groups in subordinate power relationships, such as slaves, are often unable to express their dissatisfaction with the actions of a dominant group overtly.1 This constitutes proscribed discourse, or statements that would incur punishment if observed by the dominant group. Instead, Scott argues, dissatisfied subordinates maintain “hidden transcripts”—covert communicati…
Economics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Democracy (4 works) · Political Conflict and Governance (4 works) · Foreign policy (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works)