Linda L Fowler
Biographic Data
| ID | 273569 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Linda L Fowler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Linda L |
| FAMILY NAME | Fowler |
| SIGNATURE | FOWLER L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dartmouth Hospital |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Where Have All the Experts Gone? The Shifting Marketplace for Foreign Policy Ideas on Capitol Hill
s US foreign policy observers have noted a decline in the frequency of expert witnesses appearing before congressional committees, while congressional scholars have documented changes in committee practices that have led to fewer and shorter hearings. These trends interact in systematic ways, although their relationship has never been tested empirically. Using original data and micro-level measures of individual hearings by the national security …
The Continued Decline of Congressional Oversight of U.S. Foreign Policy
Does the Legislative Studies Section Have a “Woman” Problem
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Veto-Proof Majorities, Legislative Procedures, and Presidential Decisions, 1981–2008
Super-majorities have occurred frequently in Congress but have escaped scholarly attention. This paper employs new measures of positive agenda control and a unique data set of 3,407 nontrivial bills from 1981 to 2008 to answer two questions: how did legislative leaders construct veto-proof coalitions, and what did presidents do with them? Legislative leaders, we argue, deployed procedures to expand and sustain veto-proof coalitions, despite incre…
Looking for Sex in All the Wrong Places
Although female candidates have achieved parity on some dimensions, political institutions remain deeply gendered in how they structure the parameters of electoral competition. We rely on a new data set of gubernatorial races from the 1990s to address the theoretical and empirical challenges created by the interaction of gender, media content, and electoral institutions. Based on an analysis of 1,365 newspaper articles for 27 contests in which a …
Seen but Not Heard
Scholars have neglected the effect of the press on political institutions in favor of media influences on campaigns or on voters' trust and information about government. This article examines senators' committee preferences in response to declining media coverage of Congress, focusing on the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees from 1947 to 2006. The research relies on new, continuous measures of committee desirability and a uni…
Congressional Communication
Congressional Communication: Content and Consequences. By Daniel Lipinski. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 160p. $29.95.For a decade, scholars have debated the impact of rising partisanship on the internal workings of the Congress. With the publication of Daniel Lipinski's analysis of House members' communications to their constituents, it appears that they also need to consider the effects of party conflict on representation at ho…
Sheep in Wolves' Clothing
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The Effects of Retail Politics in the New Hampshire Primary
tablishing contact with voters through direct mail, telephone banks, rallies and face-to-face campaigning, yet there is little systematic research about the impact of such retail poli? tics on voters. The New Hampshrre primary provides an optimal context for examining the consequences of campaign contacts because of its strong tradition of interaction between candidates and voters. Using a unique data set drawn from five surveys conducted during …
Who Runs for Congress
The United States has more elections than any other democracy. Voters not only fill positions that are typically appointive in other countries, such as judges, but they also select officials for many more layers of government, from the town or county to the federal level. Voters even select nominees for the ballot through primaries, instead of relying on party organizations to designate candidates. With the briefest intervals separating the close…
Replication as Regulation
over replication is comparable in many respects to controversy among policy analysts about the ends and means of regulation. Proponents of replication seek to provide the collective good of free-flowing information and to sanction the negative externality of sloppy scholarship. Similarly, opponents of replication claim property rights in the data and variables they have created through hard work and ingenuity. As with disputes over regulatory pol…
Changing Congress
The Grass Roots Connection
Interest groups resort to grass roots lobbying tactics with increasing frequency, but they are unsure when and how such a strategy affects congressional decision making. In analyzing citizen activists who belong to environmental organizations and their influence on Senate roll calls, this paper defines the limits and possibilities of such grass roots pressure. In general, the statistical results indicate that grass roots mobilization has a modest…
Changing Patterns of Voting Strength in the European Parliament
In 1979, a major step in the development of the European Parliament as a representative institution was taken. Members were selected for the first time by direct popular election and party candidates competed against each other for seats to which they had been appointed formerly by their respective national governments. change was heralded as a significant advance toward more citizen involvement in the affairs of the European Economic Community (…
How Interest Groups Select Issues for Rating Voting Records of Members of the U. S. Congress
This paper describes the criteria employed by several major interest groups in selecting issues for inclusion in the ratings of congressional voting records. Group emphasis on salient roll calls tends to weight the indices toward a few issues and to present a polarized view of congressional decision-making that may be misleading. The results confirm Kritzer's (1979) argument that members' ideology is best captured by scaling techniques
The Electoral Effects of House Committee Assignments
How Interest Groups Select Issues for Rating Voting Records of Members of the U. S. Congress
This paper describes the criteria employed by several major interest groups in selecting issues for inclusion in the ratings of congressional voting records. Group emphasis on salient roll calls tends to weight the indices toward a few issues and to present a polarized view of congressional decision-making that may be misleading. The results confirm Kritzer's (1979) argument that members' ideology is best captured by scaling techniques
The Grass Roots Connection
Interest groups resort to grass roots lobbying tactics with increasing frequency, but they are unsure when and how such a strategy affects congressional decision making. In analyzing citizen activists who belong to environmental organizations and their influence on Senate roll calls, this paper defines the limits and possibilities of such grass roots pressure. In general, the statistical results indicate that grass roots mobilization has a modest…
Looking for Sex in All the Wrong Places
Although female candidates have achieved parity on some dimensions, political institutions remain deeply gendered in how they structure the parameters of electoral competition. We rely on a new data set of gubernatorial races from the 1990s to address the theoretical and empirical challenges created by the interaction of gender, media content, and electoral institutions. Based on an analysis of 1,365 newspaper articles for 27 contests in which a …
The Effects of Retail Politics in the New Hampshire Primary
tablishing contact with voters through direct mail, telephone banks, rallies and face-to-face campaigning, yet there is little systematic research about the impact of such retail poli? tics on voters. The New Hampshrre primary provides an optimal context for examining the consequences of campaign contacts because of its strong tradition of interaction between candidates and voters. Using a unique data set drawn from five surveys conducted during …
The Electoral Effects of House Committee Assignments
Congressional Communication
Congressional Communication: Content and Consequences. By Daniel Lipinski. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 160p. $29.95.For a decade, scholars have debated the impact of rising partisanship on the internal workings of the Congress. With the publication of Daniel Lipinski's analysis of House members' communications to their constituents, it appears that they also need to consider the effects of party conflict on representation at ho…
Veto-Proof Majorities, Legislative Procedures, and Presidential Decisions, 1981–2008
Super-majorities have occurred frequently in Congress but have escaped scholarly attention. This paper employs new measures of positive agenda control and a unique data set of 3,407 nontrivial bills from 1981 to 2008 to answer two questions: how did legislative leaders construct veto-proof coalitions, and what did presidents do with them? Legislative leaders, we argue, deployed procedures to expand and sustain veto-proof coalitions, despite incre…
Who Runs for Congress
The United States has more elections than any other democracy. Voters not only fill positions that are typically appointive in other countries, such as judges, but they also select officials for many more layers of government, from the town or county to the federal level. Voters even select nominees for the ballot through primaries, instead of relying on party organizations to designate candidates. With the briefest intervals separating the close…
Replication as Regulation
over replication is comparable in many respects to controversy among policy analysts about the ends and means of regulation. Proponents of replication seek to provide the collective good of free-flowing information and to sanction the negative externality of sloppy scholarship. Similarly, opponents of replication claim property rights in the data and variables they have created through hard work and ingenuity. As with disputes over regulatory pol…
Changing Patterns of Voting Strength in the European Parliament
In 1979, a major step in the development of the European Parliament as a representative institution was taken. Members were selected for the first time by direct popular election and party candidates competed against each other for seats to which they had been appointed formerly by their respective national governments. change was heralded as a significant advance toward more citizen involvement in the affairs of the European Economic Community (…
Where Have All the Experts Gone? The Shifting Marketplace for Foreign Policy Ideas on Capitol Hill
s US foreign policy observers have noted a decline in the frequency of expert witnesses appearing before congressional committees, while congressional scholars have documented changes in committee practices that have led to fewer and shorter hearings. These trends interact in systematic ways, although their relationship has never been tested empirically. Using original data and micro-level measures of individual hearings by the national security …
The Electoral Effects of House Committee Assignments
How Interest Groups Select Issues for Rating Voting Records of Members of the U. S. Congress
This paper describes the criteria employed by several major interest groups in selecting issues for inclusion in the ratings of congressional voting records. Group emphasis on salient roll calls tends to weight the indices toward a few issues and to present a polarized view of congressional decision-making that may be misleading. The results confirm Kritzer's (1979) argument that members' ideology is best captured by scaling techniques
Changing Patterns of Voting Strength in the European Parliament
In 1979, a major step in the development of the European Parliament as a representative institution was taken. Members were selected for the first time by direct popular election and party candidates competed against each other for seats to which they had been appointed formerly by their respective national governments. change was heralded as a significant advance toward more citizen involvement in the affairs of the European Economic Community (…
The Grass Roots Connection
Interest groups resort to grass roots lobbying tactics with increasing frequency, but they are unsure when and how such a strategy affects congressional decision making. In analyzing citizen activists who belong to environmental organizations and their influence on Senate roll calls, this paper defines the limits and possibilities of such grass roots pressure. In general, the statistical results indicate that grass roots mobilization has a modest…
Changing Congress
Replication as Regulation
over replication is comparable in many respects to controversy among policy analysts about the ends and means of regulation. Proponents of replication seek to provide the collective good of free-flowing information and to sanction the negative externality of sloppy scholarship. Similarly, opponents of replication claim property rights in the data and variables they have created through hard work and ingenuity. As with disputes over regulatory pol…
Who Runs for Congress
The United States has more elections than any other democracy. Voters not only fill positions that are typically appointive in other countries, such as judges, but they also select officials for many more layers of government, from the town or county to the federal level. Voters even select nominees for the ballot through primaries, instead of relying on party organizations to designate candidates. With the briefest intervals separating the close…
The Effects of Retail Politics in the New Hampshire Primary
tablishing contact with voters through direct mail, telephone banks, rallies and face-to-face campaigning, yet there is little systematic research about the impact of such retail poli? tics on voters. The New Hampshrre primary provides an optimal context for examining the consequences of campaign contacts because of its strong tradition of interaction between candidates and voters. Using a unique data set drawn from five surveys conducted during …
Sheep in Wolves' Clothing
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
Congressional Communication
Congressional Communication: Content and Consequences. By Daniel Lipinski. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 160p. $29.95.For a decade, scholars have debated the impact of rising partisanship on the internal workings of the Congress. With the publication of Daniel Lipinski's analysis of House members' communications to their constituents, it appears that they also need to consider the effects of party conflict on representation at ho…
Seen but Not Heard
Scholars have neglected the effect of the press on political institutions in favor of media influences on campaigns or on voters' trust and information about government. This article examines senators' committee preferences in response to declining media coverage of Congress, focusing on the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees from 1947 to 2006. The research relies on new, continuous measures of committee desirability and a uni…
Looking for Sex in All the Wrong Places
Although female candidates have achieved parity on some dimensions, political institutions remain deeply gendered in how they structure the parameters of electoral competition. We rely on a new data set of gubernatorial races from the 1990s to address the theoretical and empirical challenges created by the interaction of gender, media content, and electoral institutions. Based on an analysis of 1,365 newspaper articles for 27 contests in which a …
Veto-Proof Majorities, Legislative Procedures, and Presidential Decisions, 1981–2008
Super-majorities have occurred frequently in Congress but have escaped scholarly attention. This paper employs new measures of positive agenda control and a unique data set of 3,407 nontrivial bills from 1981 to 2008 to answer two questions: how did legislative leaders construct veto-proof coalitions, and what did presidents do with them? Legislative leaders, we argue, deployed procedures to expand and sustain veto-proof coalitions, despite incre…
Does the Legislative Studies Section Have a “Woman” Problem
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
The Continued Decline of Congressional Oversight of U.S. Foreign Policy
Where Have All the Experts Gone? The Shifting Marketplace for Foreign Policy Ideas on Capitol Hill
s US foreign policy observers have noted a decline in the frequency of expert witnesses appearing before congressional committees, while congressional scholars have documented changes in committee practices that have led to fewer and shorter hearings. These trends interact in systematic ways, although their relationship has never been tested empirically. Using original data and micro-level measures of individual hearings by the national security …
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