Paul Light
Biographic Data
| ID | 241941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Light |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Light |
| SIGNATURE | LIGHT P |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 113 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The 2015 John Gaus Award Lecture
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Federalist No. 85
Federalist No. 85 offers a synopsis of the overall case for the Constitution. Describing the dangers of a nation without a national government as an “awful spectacle,” the paper provides a rebuttal to the active opposition to ratification. Focusing entirely on the operations of government, this essay examines contemporary challenges to faithfully executing the laws and offers an analysis of comprehensive reforms for creating greater accountabilit…
Federalist No. 1
Federalist No. 1 sets the basic framework for interpreting the U.S. Constitution. It contains an implied definition of “good government” that occupied the founders as they built a stronger national government. This essay explains the conflict embedded in the debate between the two theories of good government offered by Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson and asks how the competing definitions might be reconciled with recent experience
A Government Ill Executed
The federal government’s “quiet crisis” of the 1980s has become the “deafening crisis” of the early twenty‐first century. Virtually every measure of the state of the public service as envisioned by Alexander Hamilton has worsened over the past two decades. This lecture outlines Hamilton’s seven characteristics of an energetic federal service and examines recent trends in its decline. Although the federal service still executes an enormous agenda …
Recommendations Forestalled or Forgotten? The National Commission on the Public Service and Presidential Appointments
Nearly two decades after the first Volcker Commission issued its report on the federal public service, the presidential appointment and confirmation process remains long, cumbersome, intensive, and embarrassing. As the evidence presented in this essay suggests, the process may attract people who are motivated more by personal rewards than by the intrinsic value of public service. Although recent administrations have displayed little enthusiasm fo…
The Tides of Reform Revisited
The past six decades have witnessed acceleration in both the number and variety of major administrative reform statutes enacted by Congress. This increase can be explained partly by the increased involvement of Congress, a parallel decrease in activity and resistance by the presidency, and heightened public distrust toward government. At least part of the variation in the tides or philosophies of reform involves a "field of dreams" effect in whic…
Sustaining Nonprofit Performance
The nonprofit sector survives because it has a self-exploiting work force: wind it up and it will do more with less until it just runs out. But at some point, the spring must break. America's nonprofit organizations face a difficult present and an uncertain future. Money is tight. Workloads are heavy, employee turnover is high, and charitable donations have not fully rebounded from the recent economic downturn. Media and political scrutiny remain…
Les Tic dans une université
La communication par ordinateur est de plus en plus utilisée comme soutien pour les cours universitaires conventionnels. Cet article offre un panorama d’une série d’études fines d’innovation à petite échelle dans diverses disciplines sur deux campus universitaires britanniques. La plupart impliquait des interactions textuelles asynchrones concernant tous les étudiants et tous les tuteurs d’un cours. Des observations, des questionnaires et des ent…
Virtual Society and the Cultural Practice of Study
The university community has become keenly aware of ‘virtual society’. There is no shortage of commentators urging the appropriation of information and communications technology (ICT) into higher education. Political analysts identify issues of economy and enfranchisement: arguing that virtual education may both cost less and make possible greater social inclusion (Hague 1991). Principals and vice-chancellors uneasily observe the growth of corpor…
To Seek Out the Best
Attracting the most talented citizens to public service has been a challenge for America's leaders since the inception of our nation. Thomas Jefferson expressed concerns about finding honest and capable public servants for his administration, pledging “to seek out the best through the whole Union.” No executive duty “excites more anxious concern...” Jefferson wrote. “No duty, at the same time, is more difficult to fulfill.”
Domestic Policy Making
This article asks how changes in the presidential policy‐making process have affected domestic policy in general and the agenda‐setting process in particular. The past forty years have witnessed two roughly parallel but possibly unrelated trends. First, the presidential policy‐making process has become more formalized as presidents have added staff and capacity to the institutional presidency. Second, the number of proposals on the president's do…
Domestic Policy Making
This article asks how changes in the presidential policy-making process have affected domestic policy in general and the agenda-setting process in particular. The past forty years have witnessed two roughly parallel but possibly unrelated trends. First, the presidential policy-making process has become more formalized as presidents have added staff and capacity to the institutional presidency. Second, the number of proposals on the president's do…
People in Political Science
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Social Programs That Work
Social Programs That Work
The President's Agenda
Government Reform or Alternatives to Bureaucracy? Thickening, Tides and the Future of Governing
Perspectives on performance measurement and public sector accounting; Organizational performance and measurement in the public sector
Perspectives on performance measurement and public sector accounting; Organizational performance and measurement in the public sector
The Bill
The Age of Inspectors General
Describing Dog Behavior Psychologically
This paper is concerned with the interpretation of the behavior of dogs in mentalistic or psychological terms, and questions whether previous experience with pets influences the extent to which such terminology is used. Forty undergraduate psychology students viewed and produced written descriptions of five videotaped episodes showing dogs interacting with their owners. Twenty of the students had had at least two years of experience with a dog or…
Not like Us
How Americans View Charities
Still Artful Work
Part 1 Separate powers: a leaderless branch? the one-shot presidency. Part 2 The obstacles: a social security primer the politics of assumptions public opinion, ready or not the hired guns. Part 3 The crisis: the social security bust solutions for a package of pain. Part 4 Artful work: Reagan moves it Congress sets a deadline a new form of government an election break commission-itis the flight of the phoenix a legislative house of cards finishin…
The Tides of Reform Revisited
The past six decades have witnessed acceleration in both the number and variety of major administrative reform statutes enacted by Congress. This increase can be explained partly by the increased involvement of Congress, a parallel decrease in activity and resistance by the presidency, and heightened public distrust toward government. At least part of the variation in the tides or philosophies of reform involves a "field of dreams" effect in whic…
Describing Dog Behavior Psychologically
This paper is concerned with the interpretation of the behavior of dogs in mentalistic or psychological terms, and questions whether previous experience with pets influences the extent to which such terminology is used. Forty undergraduate psychology students viewed and produced written descriptions of five videotaped episodes showing dogs interacting with their owners. Twenty of the students had had at least two years of experience with a dog or…
The President's Agenda
A Government Ill Executed
The federal government’s “quiet crisis” of the 1980s has become the “deafening crisis” of the early twenty‐first century. Virtually every measure of the state of the public service as envisioned by Alexander Hamilton has worsened over the past two decades. This lecture outlines Hamilton’s seven characteristics of an energetic federal service and examines recent trends in its decline. Although the federal service still executes an enormous agenda …
Not like Us
Government Reform or Alternatives to Bureaucracy? Thickening, Tides and the Future of Governing
Where Policy Comes from
Passing Nonincremental Policy
1981). Passing Nonincremental Policy: Presidential Influence in Congress, Kennedy to Carter. Congress & the Presidency: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 61-82
Social Security and the Politics of Assumptions
Every governmental decision involves assumptions about how the world works today and how it will work tomorrow. Assumptions help Congress and the president interpret the past, understand the present, and most importantly, predict the future. They help governments define the size of problems and narrow the range of solutions. If the assumptions are accurate, they can form the basis of careful, almost rational decisions. If not, they can become the…
Recommendations Forestalled or Forgotten? The National Commission on the Public Service and Presidential Appointments
Nearly two decades after the first Volcker Commission issued its report on the federal public service, the presidential appointment and confirmation process remains long, cumbersome, intensive, and embarrassing. As the evidence presented in this essay suggests, the process may attract people who are motivated more by personal rewards than by the intrinsic value of public service. Although recent administrations have displayed little enthusiasm fo…
The Bill
Children's performance in the selection task
Three experiments exploring the effects of the activation of pragmatic schemas on children's reasoning performance are reported. Pragmatic schemas are defined as clusters of rules concerning actions and goals. Previous results indicated that by evoking 'permission' and 'obligation' schemas it is possible to facilitate adults' performance on Wason's selection task as well as that of children in a 'reduced' version of the same task. Experiment 1 de…
Vice-Presidential Influence Under Rockefeller and Mondale
Nelson A. Rockefeller and Walter F. Mondale were vice-presidents to Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter, respectively. Both Rpckefeller and Mondale had access to the Oval Office. Both had the president's willingness to listen. Both had ample staff support from an expanded Office of the VicePresident.' Both had enough time, energy, policy expertise, and proximity to the president to play an advisory role. Rockefeller and Mondale served as s…
The 2015 John Gaus Award Lecture
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Domestic Policy Making
This article asks how changes in the presidential policy‐making process have affected domestic policy in general and the agenda‐setting process in particular. The past forty years have witnessed two roughly parallel but possibly unrelated trends. First, the presidential policy‐making process has become more formalized as presidents have added staff and capacity to the institutional presidency. Second, the number of proposals on the president's do…
Politics Is the Issue
1. From the program of Nation's Dream Insurance: The 50th Anniversary of the Social Security Act (Washington: National Museum of American History, September 14, 1985). 2. Transcript of public meeting of the National Commission, November 13, 1982 (page 51). 3. John J. Corson and R. Shale Paul, Men Near the Top, Supplementary Paper No. 20 (Washington: Committee for Economic Development, 1966), p. 83
Measuring ‘greatness’ in American presidents
Measuring ‘greatness’ in American presidents
Passing Nonincremental Policy
1981). Passing Nonincremental Policy: Presidential Influence in Congress, Kennedy to Carter. Congress & the Presidency: Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 61-82
The President's Agenda
Vice-Presidential Influence Under Rockefeller and Mondale
Nelson A. Rockefeller and Walter F. Mondale were vice-presidents to Presidents Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter, respectively. Both Rpckefeller and Mondale had access to the Oval Office. Both had the president's willingness to listen. Both had ample staff support from an expanded Office of the VicePresident.' Both had enough time, energy, policy expertise, and proximity to the president to play an advisory role. Rockefeller and Mondale served as s…
Domestic Policy Formation
President and Congress
Social Security and the Politics of Assumptions
Every governmental decision involves assumptions about how the world works today and how it will work tomorrow. Assumptions help Congress and the president interpret the past, understand the present, and most importantly, predict the future. They help governments define the size of problems and narrow the range of solutions. If the assumptions are accurate, they can form the basis of careful, almost rational decisions. If not, they can become the…
Where Policy Comes from
Politics Is the Issue
1. From the program of Nation's Dream Insurance: The 50th Anniversary of the Social Security Act (Washington: National Museum of American History, September 14, 1985). 2. Transcript of public meeting of the National Commission, November 13, 1982 (page 51). 3. John J. Corson and R. Shale Paul, Men Near the Top, Supplementary Paper No. 20 (Washington: Committee for Economic Development, 1966), p. 83
Reagan's Regulatory Reform
Children's performance in the selection task
Three experiments exploring the effects of the activation of pragmatic schemas on children's reasoning performance are reported. Pragmatic schemas are defined as clusters of rules concerning actions and goals. Previous results indicated that by evoking 'permission' and 'obligation' schemas it is possible to facilitate adults' performance on Wason's selection task as well as that of children in a 'reduced' version of the same task. Experiment 1 de…
Hubert Humphrey and Political Science
As One with Authority
Journal Article As One with Authority: Reflective Leadership in Ministry, by Jackson W. Carroll. Louisville: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1991, 225 pp. $14.95 Get access Paul Light Paul Light National Ministries ABC/USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 53, Issue 4, Winter 1992, Page 462, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711446 Published: 01 December 1992
Influences on the effectiveness of peer interaction
Studies of peer interaction among children have generally shown that this experience aids performance, or at the very least does not result in poorer performance in relation to control conditions. Furthermore, working with a more able partner has been found to be a particularly effective form of peer interaction. In contrast, a model proposed by Karmiloff‐Smith suggests that at certain phases of cognitive development children may ignore feedback …
Not like Us
The Bill
The Age of Inspectors General
Describing Dog Behavior Psychologically
This paper is concerned with the interpretation of the behavior of dogs in mentalistic or psychological terms, and questions whether previous experience with pets influences the extent to which such terminology is used. Forty undergraduate psychology students viewed and produced written descriptions of five videotaped episodes showing dogs interacting with their owners. Twenty of the students had had at least two years of experience with a dog or…
Perspectives on performance measurement and public sector accounting; Organizational performance and measurement in the public sector
Perspectives on performance measurement and public sector accounting; Organizational performance and measurement in the public sector
The President's Agenda
Government Reform or Alternatives to Bureaucracy? Thickening, Tides and the Future of Governing
People in Political Science
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
Social Programs That Work
Social Programs That Work
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