William Freudenburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 258301 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Freudenburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Freudenburg |
| SIGNATURE | FREUDENBURG W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 301 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Data Happen, but How
History Repeats Itself, but How? City Character, Urban Tradition, and the Accomplishment of Place
This study shows how places, and by implication other societal units as well, achieve and reproduce distinctiveness. It does this by specifying how actors in two California urban areas, over approximately 100 years, responded differently to the same exogenous forces. Each place is examined to determine how unlike elements conjoin to produce a particular "character" at any given moment and how this character travels through time to constitute a lo…
Risky Business
Changing Public Policy
A new approach to the study of legislative change enables us to deal directly and quantitatively with questions about how long-term changes in public policy come about. The approach is applied to the aggregate change of mind by the U.S. Senate as it moved from support of the Vietnam war to opposition from 1964 to 1973. Substantively, cumulative war costs, public opinion, and antiwar demonstrations all had significant effects on Senate roll call o…
Ending the Vietnam War
Very little quantitative academic work has dealt with the politics of American involvement in and withdrawal from Indochina. This article is a preliminary examination of how the U.S. Senate moved from a strong pro-involvement stance to a strong anti-involvement one. The main findings are: (1) the aggregate change in Senate voting came about disproportionately through replacement of supporters of the war by opponents, as opposed to changes of mind…
History Repeats Itself, but How? City Character, Urban Tradition, and the Accomplishment of Place
This study shows how places, and by implication other societal units as well, achieve and reproduce distinctiveness. It does this by specifying how actors in two California urban areas, over approximately 100 years, responded differently to the same exogenous forces. Each place is examined to determine how unlike elements conjoin to produce a particular "character" at any given moment and how this character travels through time to constitute a lo…
Changing Public Policy
A new approach to the study of legislative change enables us to deal directly and quantitatively with questions about how long-term changes in public policy come about. The approach is applied to the aggregate change of mind by the U.S. Senate as it moved from support of the Vietnam war to opposition from 1964 to 1973. Substantively, cumulative war costs, public opinion, and antiwar demonstrations all had significant effects on Senate roll call o…
Ending the Vietnam War
Very little quantitative academic work has dealt with the politics of American involvement in and withdrawal from Indochina. This article is a preliminary examination of how the U.S. Senate moved from a strong pro-involvement stance to a strong anti-involvement one. The main findings are: (1) the aggregate change in Senate voting came about disproportionately through replacement of supporters of the war by opponents, as opposed to changes of mind…
Data Happen, but How
Ending the Vietnam War
Very little quantitative academic work has dealt with the politics of American involvement in and withdrawal from Indochina. This article is a preliminary examination of how the U.S. Senate moved from a strong pro-involvement stance to a strong anti-involvement one. The main findings are: (1) the aggregate change in Senate voting came about disproportionately through replacement of supporters of the war by opponents, as opposed to changes of mind…
Changing Public Policy
A new approach to the study of legislative change enables us to deal directly and quantitatively with questions about how long-term changes in public policy come about. The approach is applied to the aggregate change of mind by the U.S. Senate as it moved from support of the Vietnam war to opposition from 1964 to 1973. Substantively, cumulative war costs, public opinion, and antiwar demonstrations all had significant effects on Senate roll call o…
Risky Business
History Repeats Itself, but How? City Character, Urban Tradition, and the Accomplishment of Place
This study shows how places, and by implication other societal units as well, achieve and reproduce distinctiveness. It does this by specifying how actors in two California urban areas, over approximately 100 years, responded differently to the same exogenous forces. Each place is examined to determine how unlike elements conjoin to produce a particular "character" at any given moment and how this character travels through time to constitute a lo…
Data Happen, but How
Political science (4 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political economy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)