Micheal W Giles
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 212343 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Micheal W Giles |
| NOMBRES | Micheal W |
| APELLIDO | Giles |
| FIRMA | GILES M W |
| AFILIACIONES | Emory University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 717 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1972 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Time constraints and the opportunity costs of oversight
In a principal–agent relationship, how should principals budget time for oversight when oversight activity is not instantaneous? We develop a formal model of resource allocation by a principal monitoring multiple agents, where the principal faces a dynamic budgeting problem. Our model reveals a tension between the value of holding resources in reserve to maintain the threat of an audit and the direct policy gains of monitoring activity. We show t…
Editors’ Corner
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Ranking Scholarly Publishers in Political Science
Previous research has documented how political scientists evaluate and rank scholarly journals, but the evaluation and ranking of scholarly book publishers has drawn less attention. In this article, we use data from a survey of 603 American political scientists to generate a ranking of scholarly publishers in political science. We used open-ended questions to ask respondents to identify those scholarly publishers (1) to which they would submit “a…
Comparative Journal Ratings
The expert survey and bibliometric methods of assessing the quality of work in political science are complementary. This project builds on previous surveys of academic political science journals conducted among US political scientists. The current wave extends the survey to political scientists in Canada and the UK. Preliminary results suggest both similarities and differences across the three countries. These results matter for policy debate in …
Political Science Journals in Comparative Perspective
In this article we report the results from a new survey of political scientists regarding their evaluations of journals in the political science discipline. Unlike previous research that has focused on data from the United States, we conducted an Internet survey of political scientists in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We present data on journal evaluations, journal familiarity, and journal impact, both for our entire sample (…
Authors' Response to Reviews
with A. Blais, J. C. Garand, and M. Giles, ‘Authors’ Response to Reviews’, Political Studies Review 7, 2009, 88-92
Commentary on “Picking Federal Judges
The news that Federal Judges, which I co-authored with Virginia Hettinger and Todd Peppers, was one of the frequently cited articles published in Political Research Quarterly came as a surprise. While we, of course, thought the article made a significant contribution and were pleased that the reviewers and editor agreed, it seemed an unlikely prospect to win a competition for citations. After all, the article appeared under the designation of a r…
The Supreme Court in American Democracy
There is wide scholarly agreement that the frequent replacement of justices has kept the Supreme Court generally attuned to public opinion. Recent research indicates that, in addition to this indirect effect, Supreme Court justices respond directly to changes in public opinion. We explore the two causal pathways suggested to link public opinion directly to the behavior of justices and the implications of the nature and strength of these linkages …
The Etiology of the Occurrence of En Banc Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals
The U.S. Courts of Appeals, working principally through three‐judge panels, constitute important final arbiters of the meaning of the federal constitution, laws, and regulations and, hence, significant policymakers within the federal system. En banc rehearing—reconsideration of the decision of a three‐judge panel by the full complement of judges appointed to the circuit—is an institutional device that ensures circuit decisions are in line with th…
Ranking Political Science Journals
Academic journals play a key role in the dissemination of scholarly knowledge in the social sciences. Hence, publication in journals is critical evidence of scholarly performance for both individuals and the departments that they populate. While in the best of worlds each scholar's performance would be evaluated based on a close reading of his/her published journal articles, in the actual practices of hiring, tenure and promotion review, and depa…
Setting a Judicial Agenda
Agenda setting has received only modest attention in studies of the judiciary. This reflects the limited control most courts exercise over the cases they hear. We analyze the influence of ideological and legal factors on the grant of en banc rehearing in the U.S. Courts of Appeals—one of the few instances of agenda control in the lower federal courts. Unlike previous research, we examine multiple decision points in the agenda-setting process. Our…
Journals in the Discipline
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Picking Federal Judges
The importance of lower federal courts in the policymaking process has stimulated extensive research programs focused on the process of selecting the judges of these courts and the factors influencing their decisions. The present study employs judicial decisionmaking in the U.S. Courts of Appeals as a window through which to reexamine the politics of selection to the lower courts. It differs from previous studies of selection in three ways. First…
Collaborating to Reduce Poverty
The authors report on the findings of a national survey of city officials and executive directors of nonprofit organizations that was conducted by the National League of Cities in 1998 to gain a better understanding of the ways in which community-based organizations (CBOs) and city governments are working together to reduce poverty and revitalize neighborhoods. The findings are mixed. Although collaboration between city governments and CBOs is fa…
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Beyond Racial Threat
Racial Threat and Partisan Identification
Over the past three decades, as the Democratic party in the South has come to depend more heavily on black voters for its success, it has experienced a decline among white adherents.Power theoryviews relationships between groups as a function of their competitive positions in political, economic, and social arenas. In contexts where the threat posed by a minority group is high, the dominant group's response is predicted to be more hostile than in…
Dining in Atlanta
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Political Scientists' Journal Evaluations Revisited
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Political Transition, Social Development, and Legal Mobilization in Spain
While it has been frequently asserted that the use of courts is responsive to political and social contexts, the evidence is inconclusive at best. In the case of political context the dearth of evidence may reflect focusing on the U.S. case, where there is relatively limited variation in relevant characteristics. In the case of social context it may reflect a failure to focus on periods of substantial transition. In the present study we examine c…
Black Participation
Effects of Percent Black On Blacks' Perceptions of Relative Power and Social Distance
The Power Approach to Intergroup Hostility
The power approach views intergroup hostility as a natural product of competition among groups for scarce resources. The findings of this study show clear support for the operation of this approach in the area of American race relations. Consistent with the model, whites' racial tolerance and support for government policies favorable toward blacks are found linked to black competition measured by the black concentration in the local context and t…
Campaign Expenditures and Legislative Elections in Florida
Policy Support within a Target Group
This study empirically tests three theoretical approaches to explaining specific support for a policy output among members of its target group. The utilitarian model posits support as a function of objective costs and benefits to the individual stemming directly from the policy. The attitudinal model relates specific support to diffuse predispositions rooted in socialization. The perceptual model holds that specific support derives from beliefs a…
Racial Threat and Partisan Identification
Over the past three decades, as the Democratic party in the South has come to depend more heavily on black voters for its success, it has experienced a decline among white adherents.Power theoryviews relationships between groups as a function of their competitive positions in political, economic, and social arenas. In contexts where the threat posed by a minority group is high, the dominant group's response is predicted to be more hostile than in…
Picking Federal Judges
The importance of lower federal courts in the policymaking process has stimulated extensive research programs focused on the process of selecting the judges of these courts and the factors influencing their decisions. The present study employs judicial decisionmaking in the U.S. Courts of Appeals as a window through which to reexamine the politics of selection to the lower courts. It differs from previous studies of selection in three ways. First…
The Power Approach to Intergroup Hostility
The power approach views intergroup hostility as a natural product of competition among groups for scarce resources. The findings of this study show clear support for the operation of this approach in the area of American race relations. Consistent with the model, whites' racial tolerance and support for government policies favorable toward blacks are found linked to black competition measured by the black concentration in the local context and t…
The Supreme Court in American Democracy
There is wide scholarly agreement that the frequent replacement of justices has kept the Supreme Court generally attuned to public opinion. Recent research indicates that, in addition to this indirect effect, Supreme Court justices respond directly to changes in public opinion. We explore the two causal pathways suggested to link public opinion directly to the behavior of justices and the implications of the nature and strength of these linkages …
Beyond Racial Threat
Campaign Expenditures and Legislative Elections in Florida
Comparative Journal Ratings
The expert survey and bibliometric methods of assessing the quality of work in political science are complementary. This project builds on previous surveys of academic political science journals conducted among US political scientists. The current wave extends the survey to political scientists in Canada and the UK. Preliminary results suggest both similarities and differences across the three countries. These results matter for policy debate in …
Journals in the Discipline
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at
Setting a Judicial Agenda
Agenda setting has received only modest attention in studies of the judiciary. This reflects the limited control most courts exercise over the cases they hear. We analyze the influence of ideological and legal factors on the grant of en banc rehearing in the U.S. Courts of Appeals—one of the few instances of agenda control in the lower federal courts. Unlike previous research, we examine multiple decision points in the agenda-setting process. Our…
Political Transition, Social Development, and Legal Mobilization in Spain
While it has been frequently asserted that the use of courts is responsive to political and social contexts, the evidence is inconclusive at best. In the case of political context the dearth of evidence may reflect focusing on the U.S. case, where there is relatively limited variation in relevant characteristics. In the case of social context it may reflect a failure to focus on periods of substantial transition. In the present study we examine c…
Policy Support within a Target Group
This study empirically tests three theoretical approaches to explaining specific support for a policy output among members of its target group. The utilitarian model posits support as a function of objective costs and benefits to the individual stemming directly from the policy. The attitudinal model relates specific support to diffuse predispositions rooted in socialization. The perceptual model holds that specific support derives from beliefs a…
Recurring Litigants
CONTEMPORARY analysis of the United States Supreme Court has largely ignored the possible impact of the litigants per se on the Court's decision making. In part this is because for most parties, an appearance before the Supreme Court is a singular or relatively rare event. And in part, it is because those few parties who do appear frequently before the Court, e.g., the Department of Justice, do so in a whole spectrum of cases arising in very diff…
The Etiology of the Occurrence of En Banc Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals
The U.S. Courts of Appeals, working principally through three‐judge panels, constitute important final arbiters of the meaning of the federal constitution, laws, and regulations and, hence, significant policymakers within the federal system. En banc rehearing—reconsideration of the decision of a three‐judge panel by the full complement of judges appointed to the circuit—is an institutional device that ensures circuit decisions are in line with th…
From Gutenberg to Gigabytes
Ranking Political Science Journals
Academic journals play a key role in the dissemination of scholarly knowledge in the social sciences. Hence, publication in journals is critical evidence of scholarly performance for both individuals and the departments that they populate. While in the best of worlds each scholar's performance would be evaluated based on a close reading of his/her published journal articles, in the actual practices of hiring, tenure and promotion review, and depa…
Collaborating to Reduce Poverty
The authors report on the findings of a national survey of city officials and executive directors of nonprofit organizations that was conducted by the National League of Cities in 1998 to gain a better understanding of the ways in which community-based organizations (CBOs) and city governments are working together to reduce poverty and revitalize neighborhoods. The findings are mixed. Although collaboration between city governments and CBOs is fa…
Racial and Class Prejudice
Black Concentration and School District Size as Predictors of School Segregation
Micheal W. Giles, Black Concentration and School District Size as Predictors of School Segregation: The Impact of Federal Enforcement, Sociology of Education, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Autumn, 1975), pp. 411-419
Expectations and Images
There has recently been a growing concern within political science with the public's support for governmental institutions. To date, the research in the judicial realm — focusing extensively on the United States Supreme Court — has measured support primarily in terms of the public's evaluation of court outputs and has attempted to explain support through variables believed to function as important bases or references for these evaluations, e.g., …
Parental Support for School Referenda
Time constraints and the opportunity costs of oversight
In a principal–agent relationship, how should principals budget time for oversight when oversight activity is not instantaneous? We develop a formal model of resource allocation by a principal monitoring multiple agents, where the principal faces a dynamic budgeting problem. Our model reveals a tension between the value of holding resources in reserve to maintain the threat of an audit and the direct policy gains of monitoring activity. We show t…
Political Science Journals in Comparative Perspective
In this article we report the results from a new survey of political scientists regarding their evaluations of journals in the political science discipline. Unlike previous research that has focused on data from the United States, we conducted an Internet survey of political scientists in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. We present data on journal evaluations, journal familiarity, and journal impact, both for our entire sample (…
Political Scientists' Journal Evaluations Revisited
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Editors’ Corner
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Ranking Scholarly Publishers in Political Science
Previous research has documented how political scientists evaluate and rank scholarly journals, but the evaluation and ranking of scholarly book publishers has drawn less attention. In this article, we use data from a survey of 603 American political scientists to generate a ranking of scholarly publishers in political science. We used open-ended questions to ask respondents to identify those scholarly publishers (1) to which they would submit “a…
Expectations and Images
There has recently been a growing concern within political science with the public's support for governmental institutions. To date, the research in the judicial realm — focusing extensively on the United States Supreme Court — has measured support primarily in terms of the public's evaluation of court outputs and has attempted to explain support through variables believed to function as important bases or references for these evaluations, e.g., …
Recurring Litigants
CONTEMPORARY analysis of the United States Supreme Court has largely ignored the possible impact of the litigants per se on the Court's decision making. In part this is because for most parties, an appearance before the Supreme Court is a singular or relatively rare event. And in part, it is because those few parties who do appear frequently before the Court, e.g., the Department of Justice, do so in a whole spectrum of cases arising in very diff…
Black Concentration and School District Size as Predictors of School Segregation
Micheal W. Giles, Black Concentration and School District Size as Predictors of School Segregation: The Impact of Federal Enforcement, Sociology of Education, Vol. 48, No. 4 (Autumn, 1975), pp. 411-419
Parental Support for School Referenda
Racial and Class Prejudice
Policy Support within a Target Group
This study empirically tests three theoretical approaches to explaining specific support for a policy output among members of its target group. The utilitarian model posits support as a function of objective costs and benefits to the individual stemming directly from the policy. The attitudinal model relates specific support to diffuse predispositions rooted in socialization. The perceptual model holds that specific support derives from beliefs a…
Campaign Expenditures and Legislative Elections in Florida
Effects of Percent Black On Blacks' Perceptions of Relative Power and Social Distance
The Power Approach to Intergroup Hostility
The power approach views intergroup hostility as a natural product of competition among groups for scarce resources. The findings of this study show clear support for the operation of this approach in the area of American race relations. Consistent with the model, whites' racial tolerance and support for government policies favorable toward blacks are found linked to black competition measured by the black concentration in the local context and t…
Black Participation
Dining in Atlanta
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Political Scientists' Journal Evaluations Revisited
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Political Transition, Social Development, and Legal Mobilization in Spain
While it has been frequently asserted that the use of courts is responsive to political and social contexts, the evidence is inconclusive at best. In the case of political context the dearth of evidence may reflect focusing on the U.S. case, where there is relatively limited variation in relevant characteristics. In the case of social context it may reflect a failure to focus on periods of substantial transition. In the present study we examine c…
Racial Threat and Partisan Identification
Over the past three decades, as the Democratic party in the South has come to depend more heavily on black voters for its success, it has experienced a decline among white adherents.Power theoryviews relationships between groups as a function of their competitive positions in political, economic, and social arenas. In contexts where the threat posed by a minority group is high, the dominant group's response is predicted to be more hostile than in…
From Gutenberg to Gigabytes
Beyond Racial Threat
Picking Federal Judges
The importance of lower federal courts in the policymaking process has stimulated extensive research programs focused on the process of selecting the judges of these courts and the factors influencing their decisions. The present study employs judicial decisionmaking in the U.S. Courts of Appeals as a window through which to reexamine the politics of selection to the lower courts. It differs from previous studies of selection in three ways. First…
Collaborating to Reduce Poverty
The authors report on the findings of a national survey of city officials and executive directors of nonprofit organizations that was conducted by the National League of Cities in 1998 to gain a better understanding of the ways in which community-based organizations (CBOs) and city governments are working together to reduce poverty and revitalize neighborhoods. The findings are mixed. Although collaboration between city governments and CBOs is fa…
Journals in the Discipline
Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR's Terms and Conditions of Use, available at
Setting a Judicial Agenda
Agenda setting has received only modest attention in studies of the judiciary. This reflects the limited control most courts exercise over the cases they hear. We analyze the influence of ideological and legal factors on the grant of en banc rehearing in the U.S. Courts of Appeals—one of the few instances of agenda control in the lower federal courts. Unlike previous research, we examine multiple decision points in the agenda-setting process. Our…
The Etiology of the Occurrence of En Banc Review in the U.S. Court of Appeals
The U.S. Courts of Appeals, working principally through three‐judge panels, constitute important final arbiters of the meaning of the federal constitution, laws, and regulations and, hence, significant policymakers within the federal system. En banc rehearing—reconsideration of the decision of a three‐judge panel by the full complement of judges appointed to the circuit—is an institutional device that ensures circuit decisions are in line with th…
Ranking Political Science Journals
Academic journals play a key role in the dissemination of scholarly knowledge in the social sciences. Hence, publication in journals is critical evidence of scholarly performance for both individuals and the departments that they populate. While in the best of worlds each scholar's performance would be evaluated based on a close reading of his/her published journal articles, in the actual practices of hiring, tenure and promotion review, and depa…
Authors' Response to Reviews
with A. Blais, J. C. Garand, and M. Giles, ‘Authors’ Response to Reviews’, Political Studies Review 7, 2009, 88-92
Commentary on “Picking Federal Judges
The news that Federal Judges, which I co-authored with Virginia Hettinger and Todd Peppers, was one of the frequently cited articles published in Political Research Quarterly came as a surprise. While we, of course, thought the article made a significant contribution and were pleased that the reviewers and editor agreed, it seemed an unlikely prospect to win a competition for citations. After all, the article appeared under the designation of a r…
The Supreme Court in American Democracy
There is wide scholarly agreement that the frequent replacement of justices has kept the Supreme Court generally attuned to public opinion. Recent research indicates that, in addition to this indirect effect, Supreme Court justices respond directly to changes in public opinion. We explore the two causal pathways suggested to link public opinion directly to the behavior of justices and the implications of the nature and strength of these linkages …
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