Bartholomew H Sparrow
Biographic Data
| ID | 266038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bartholomew H Sparrow |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bartholomew H |
| FAMILY NAME | Sparrow |
| SIGNATURE | SPARROW B H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0900-1830 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 221 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 33 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Exit Option
Thousands of husbands placed advertisements in colonial newspapers announcing that their wives had deserted them and rejecting responsibility for their wives’ debts. Yet few scholars have studied “runaway wives.” This article argues the notices evidenced wives’ agency in a sexist and socially conservative eighteenth-century America, agency that took the form of “exit,” “voice,” and “loyalty,” to follow Hirschman's seminal work. The article examin…
American Political Development and the Recovery of a Human Science
Recent political developments point to the presence of grave problems with democratic governance in the United States. They suggest that scholarship in American political development (APD) could be better at studying the experiences and thinking of everyday Americans. APD scholars often study institutional changes, policy initiatives, and other shifts in governance without studying how these developments affect the lives of U.S. citizens and resi…
The Paradox of Power
Crossing Borders, Spanning Boundaries
Crossing Borders, Spanning Boundaries Katharine Bjork. Prairie Imperialists: The Indian Country Origins of American Empire. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019. 340 pp. $55.00 (hardcover). Bartholomew H Sparrow Bartholomew H Sparrow Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 45, Issue 1, January 2021, Pages 199–200, https://doi.org/10.1093/d…
Concluding Thoughts
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Introduction to Spotlight on Promotion Letters
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The Other Point of Departure
Democracy in America has greatly influenced not only how political scientists think of democratic government, political equality, and liberalism in general, but also how we think of the United States as a whole. This article questions Tocqueville's interpretations of Americans’ habits and beliefs, given how little time Tocqueville actually spent in the South and the near West and given that he all but ignored the founding of Virginia and the othe…
Robert C. McGreevey. Borderline Citizens
Borderline Citizens: The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration is a study of emigration to the United States from Puerto Rico, following the island’s annexation in 1898. Robert C. McGreevey traces the history of Puerto Rican immigration in the Hawaiian Islands, California, New York, and other states over the three-plus decades since the occupation of Puerto Rico under U.S. forces and General Nelson Miles. Despite the …
Nothing on the Floor
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HAVE MANY WAYS TO ACHIEVE their multiple goals of being reelected, making policy, and gaining power and prestige within their institution. Of these, roll call voting is the most visible and, many scholars argue, the most important signal that legislators send to their constituents, colleagues, and interest groups about their positions and achievements.1 Yet since 1790, and permanently since 1794, the U.S. Congress has included…
The Expansion of the Canadian Federation
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A Territorial State
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Why Would a Political Scientist Write a Biography
Why would a political scientist write a biography of a U.S. national security advisor? Biography focuses on a single individual and has no guidelines on where or how to collect evidence or on how to organize that evidence. Nonetheless, a biography of General Brent Scowcroft, national security advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, allowed me to provide a broad overview of forty years of U.S. foreign policy history, to conduct an …
Empire
From the Outside In
Assessing Public Opinion After 9/11 and Before the Iraq War
This study evaluates the frequency with which polls about Iraq and terrorism were fielded and reported in the media between September 11, 2001 and October 11, 2002. A content analysis of 4,481 poll questions and 4,964 references to poll-based public opinion in the media was conducted. There are strong relationships between media coverage of public opinion and the assessment of public opinion via polls. This study also examines whether the frequen…
Habits of Empire
Journal Article Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion Get access Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. By Walter Nugent. (New York: Knopf, 2008. xviii, 387 pp. $30.00, ISBN978-1-4000-4292-0.) Bartholomew H. Sparrow Bartholomew H. Sparrow University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 97, Issue 4, March 2011, Pages 108…
Realism's Practitioner
The management of U.S. national security (i.e., the coordination of foreign policy, grand strategy, military planning, and force requirements), has become the responsibility of the national security advisor. Curiously, however, the position of national security adviser—arguably the “first among equals” in the determination of diplomatic, economic, and military relations—is not even mentioned in the 1947 National Security Act. The National Securit…
American Political Development, State-Building, and the “Security State
The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire
A Research Agenda for an Institutional Media
This article presents a new institutionalism theory of news rooted in the open-systems approach developed in organizational theory. It argues that news media develop standard routines and practices—institutions—in response to three kinds of uncertainty: whether or how they will make a profit, establish their legitimacy, and find timely information. These routines and practices become taken-for-granted assumptions about how to produce news that sp…
The Louisiana Purchase and American expansion, 1803-1898
Introduction Chapter 1: First Incorporation Debate Chapter 2: The Strongest Government on Earth: Jefferson's Republicanism, the Expansion of the Union, and the New Nation's Destiny Chapter 3: Louisiana Purchase and the Coming of the Civil War Chapter 4: Settling the West: Annexation of Texas, the Louisiana Purchase, and Bush v. Gore Chapter 5: Texas Chapter 6: Golden Death of Jefferson's Dream: California and the Sectional Crisis Chapter 7: A Pro…
Projections of Power
Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy. By Robert M. Entman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 200p. $16.00. Which news frames prevail in the coverage of U.S. foreign policy? Robert Entman introduces a “cascading activation” model to explain news framing —“the process of selecting and enhancing some aspects of a perceived reality, and enhancing the salience of an interpretation and evaluation of that…
The National War Labor Board and American State Building
In his article “Creating the National War Labor Board: Franklin Roosevelt and the Politics of State Building in the Early 1940s,” Andrew Workman argues for a revised “institutionalist” understanding of the creation of the National War Labor Board (NWLB). Specifically, Workman includes interest groups, networks of policy intellectuals, and intragovernmental relations in an institutionalist account of the origin of the NWLB. Existing accounts that …
Uncertain Guardians
Bold Relief
Journal Article Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy Get access Edwin Amenta. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998. 356 pp. $39.00. Bartholomew H. Sparrow Bartholomew H. Sparrow The University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 1, Spring 1999, Pages 176–177, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658026 …
Uncertain Guardians
A Research Agenda for an Institutional Media
This article presents a new institutionalism theory of news rooted in the open-systems approach developed in organizational theory. It argues that news media develop standard routines and practices—institutions—in response to three kinds of uncertainty: whether or how they will make a profit, establish their legitimacy, and find timely information. These routines and practices become taken-for-granted assumptions about how to produce news that sp…
From the Inner Ring Out
Studies of the organizational and behavioral characteristics of the American news media, as well as studies of media effects, often presume a basic institutional unity among news organizations. These studies typically analyze a small set of prestige media, and then make or infer conclusions with respect to the non-prestige media or the news media in general. The intention here is to verify empirically the extent to which the non-prestige ”outer r…
Going Beyond the State
Timothy Mitchell's article "The Limits of the State" in the March 1991 issue of thisReviewstimulated an unusual variety of interested comments. John Bendix, Bartholomew Sparrow, and Bertell Ollman offer critiques and suggestions from quite different points of view. In response, Mitchell clarifies further the distinctiveness of his own approach and its implications
Nothing on the Floor
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HAVE MANY WAYS TO ACHIEVE their multiple goals of being reelected, making policy, and gaining power and prestige within their institution. Of these, roll call voting is the most visible and, many scholars argue, the most important signal that legislators send to their constituents, colleagues, and interest groups about their positions and achievements.1 Yet since 1790, and permanently since 1794, the U.S. Congress has included…
A Territorial State
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American Political Development, State-Building, and the “Security State
The state and the politics of oil
Projections of Power
Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy. By Robert M. Entman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 200p. $16.00. Which news frames prevail in the coverage of U.S. foreign policy? Robert Entman introduces a “cascading activation” model to explain news framing —“the process of selecting and enhancing some aspects of a perceived reality, and enhancing the salience of an interpretation and evaluation of that…
Bold Relief
Journal Article Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy Get access Edwin Amenta. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998. 356 pp. $39.00. Bartholomew H. Sparrow Bartholomew H. Sparrow The University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 1, Spring 1999, Pages 176–177, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658026 …
Access to the National Archives
The condition of the National Archives concerns all political scientists.*Many political scientists use Archival records for research on American government or on international relations.The National Archives currently holds 800,000 cubic feet of federal records in its main building, and stores another 500,000 cubic feet of records in other buildings in the Washington, D.C. area.These
The state and the politics of oil
Going Beyond the State
Timothy Mitchell's article "The Limits of the State" in the March 1991 issue of thisReviewstimulated an unusual variety of interested comments. John Bendix, Bartholomew Sparrow, and Bertell Ollman offer critiques and suggestions from quite different points of view. In response, Mitchell clarifies further the distinctiveness of his own approach and its implications
The Politics of Interests
State and Party in America's New Deal. Kenneth Finegold , Theda Skocpol
State Autonomy or Class Dominance? Case Studies on Policy making in America
Forth to the Mighty Conflict
Journal Article Forth to the Mighty Conflict: Alabama and World War II. By Allen Cronenberg Tuscaloosa and From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. By Bartholomew H. Sparrow Princeton Get access Bruce J. Schulman Bruce J. Schulman Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 291–292, https://doi.o…
Uncertain Guardians
Bold Relief
Journal Article Bold Relief: Institutional Politics and the Origins of Modern American Social Policy Get access Edwin Amenta. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1998. 356 pp. $39.00. Bartholomew H. Sparrow Bartholomew H. Sparrow The University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 1, Spring 1999, Pages 176–177, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658026 …
From the Inner Ring Out
Studies of the organizational and behavioral characteristics of the American news media, as well as studies of media effects, often presume a basic institutional unity among news organizations. These studies typically analyze a small set of prestige media, and then make or infer conclusions with respect to the non-prestige media or the news media in general. The intention here is to verify empirically the extent to which the non-prestige ”outer r…
The National War Labor Board and American State Building
In his article “Creating the National War Labor Board: Franklin Roosevelt and the Politics of State Building in the Early 1940s,” Andrew Workman argues for a revised “institutionalist” understanding of the creation of the National War Labor Board (NWLB). Specifically, Workman includes interest groups, networks of policy intellectuals, and intragovernmental relations in an institutionalist account of the origin of the NWLB. Existing accounts that …
Projections of Power
Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy. By Robert M. Entman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 200p. $16.00. Which news frames prevail in the coverage of U.S. foreign policy? Robert Entman introduces a “cascading activation” model to explain news framing —“the process of selecting and enhancing some aspects of a perceived reality, and enhancing the salience of an interpretation and evaluation of that…
The Louisiana Purchase and American expansion, 1803-1898
Introduction Chapter 1: First Incorporation Debate Chapter 2: The Strongest Government on Earth: Jefferson's Republicanism, the Expansion of the Union, and the New Nation's Destiny Chapter 3: Louisiana Purchase and the Coming of the Civil War Chapter 4: Settling the West: Annexation of Texas, the Louisiana Purchase, and Bush v. Gore Chapter 5: Texas Chapter 6: Golden Death of Jefferson's Dream: California and the Sectional Crisis Chapter 7: A Pro…
The Insular Cases and the Emergence of American Empire
A Research Agenda for an Institutional Media
This article presents a new institutionalism theory of news rooted in the open-systems approach developed in organizational theory. It argues that news media develop standard routines and practices—institutions—in response to three kinds of uncertainty: whether or how they will make a profit, establish their legitimacy, and find timely information. These routines and practices become taken-for-granted assumptions about how to produce news that sp…
American Political Development, State-Building, and the “Security State
Realism's Practitioner
The management of U.S. national security (i.e., the coordination of foreign policy, grand strategy, military planning, and force requirements), has become the responsibility of the national security advisor. Curiously, however, the position of national security adviser—arguably the “first among equals” in the determination of diplomatic, economic, and military relations—is not even mentioned in the 1947 National Security Act. The National Securit…
Assessing Public Opinion After 9/11 and Before the Iraq War
This study evaluates the frequency with which polls about Iraq and terrorism were fielded and reported in the media between September 11, 2001 and October 11, 2002. A content analysis of 4,481 poll questions and 4,964 references to poll-based public opinion in the media was conducted. There are strong relationships between media coverage of public opinion and the assessment of public opinion via polls. This study also examines whether the frequen…
Habits of Empire
Journal Article Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion Get access Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. By Walter Nugent. (New York: Knopf, 2008. xviii, 387 pp. $30.00, ISBN978-1-4000-4292-0.) Bartholomew H. Sparrow Bartholomew H. Sparrow University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 97, Issue 4, March 2011, Pages 108…
From the Outside In
Empire
Why Would a Political Scientist Write a Biography
Why would a political scientist write a biography of a U.S. national security advisor? Biography focuses on a single individual and has no guidelines on where or how to collect evidence or on how to organize that evidence. Nonetheless, a biography of General Brent Scowcroft, national security advisor to Presidents Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush, allowed me to provide a broad overview of forty years of U.S. foreign policy history, to conduct an …
The Expansion of the Canadian Federation
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A Territorial State
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
Nothing on the Floor
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS HAVE MANY WAYS TO ACHIEVE their multiple goals of being reelected, making policy, and gaining power and prestige within their institution. Of these, roll call voting is the most visible and, many scholars argue, the most important signal that legislators send to their constituents, colleagues, and interest groups about their positions and achievements.1 Yet since 1790, and permanently since 1794, the U.S. Congress has included…
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