Richard L Merritt
Biographic Data
| ID | 274435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard L Merritt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard L |
| FAMILY NAME | Merritt |
| SIGNATURE | MERRITT R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 71 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 152 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 71 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Ursus Tyrannus or Teddy Bear? Berlin and its Neighbors
On 5 May 1996 the plebiscite to reunite the city-state of Berlin with itssurrounding Brandenburg province was sharply defeated. What wentwrong? Why was this move that seemed so natural to so many rejected
Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance, by Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson
Journal Article Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance Get access Globalization in Question: The International Economy and the Possibilities of Governance by Paul Hirst and Grahame Thompson. Cambridge, England, Polity Press in association with Blackwell Publishers Ltd., 1996. 227 pp. Cloth, $54.95; paper, $21.95. Richard L. Merritt Richard L. Merritt University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Sear…
Democracy Imposed: U.S. Occupation Policy and the German Public, 1945-1949
Journal Article Democracy Imposed: U.S. Occupation Policy and the German Public, 1945–1949. By Richard L. Merritt. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. xxii, 452 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-300-06037-8.) Get access Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Jessica C. E. Gienow-Hecht Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 19…
Democracy Imposed: U.S. Occupation Policy and the German Public, 1945-1949
Instead of studying what German political leaders and intellectuals thought about the US occupation, this text explores the response of the ordinary German people, analyzing data from public opinion surveys conducted largely by the American Military Government beginning in 1945. It poses questions such as How successful was the United States in attempting to impose a democratic system on Germany after World War II?, and Did US occupation policy a…
Democracy Imposed: U.S. Occupation Policy and the German Public, 1945-1949
Dangers of Our Time—Introduction
Déséquilibre démographique et déstabilisation politique
Population Imbalance and Political Destabilization
Vast population growth is one of the chief dangers of our times—but perhaps not because of growth size itself. First, scientists and policy makers differ about how many more people the global system can accommodate. Early dreams of endless growth, nationalistic emphases on population quality, and neo-Malthusian claims to the limits of growth remain intellectual challenges. Actual policy is left to nation-states. Second, nation-states rarely have …
Normalizing the East German Media
After the “peaceful revolution” in the German Democratic Republic (CDR) in fall 1989, the more dominant western Federal Republic of Germany systematically dismantled the ex‐CDR print and electronic media. Reasons generally given stress the perceived need for systemic homogeneity in the united country, although critics also speak of unmitigated aggrandizement by western media politicians. More important for explaining the media takeover's brutalit…
Data development for international research—Phase I: International conflict and national characteristics
In 1986 developers and users of quantitative data in international and comparative politics organized to maintain, extend, and develop major datasets and to provide a stronger basis for coordinating data‐related activities. National Science Foundation funding established for a three‐year period Data Development for International Research. Its first phase (DDIR‐I) focused on improving datasets on both national capabilities and international confli…
Measuring events for international political analysis
Scientists measure international events to explore theoretic aspects of international interaction. Rummel's DON focused on cross‐national and synchronic events, broadened to include international interactive and diachronic research. Interested in specific crises (e.g., Berlin blockade), McClelland's WEIS developed 22 event varieties (63 including subcategories) ranging nominally from conciliation (“yield”) to conflict (“force”). Azar's COPDAB exp…
Karl W. Deutsch
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Clarence A. Berdahl
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Science, Politics, and International Conferences: A Functional Analysis of the Moscow Political Science Congress
While there are many widely held assumptions about the impact of international scientific congresses (ISCs) on individual scientists, collective bodies, a particular branch of science, or even the establishment of world order, these assumptions have not previously been fully examined or tested empirically. Merritt and Hanson present here the results of their systematic investigation of the uses and consequences of ISCs. Deriving their data from a…
Power in World Politics
Explores power relationships in world politics, focusing on what power is and what it is not, on the ways in which power has been assessed, and on the major lessons for international politics that can be gleaned through an analysis of power.
Validity of power indices
An important approach to understanding power seeks a generalized measure that can rank nation‐states from the most to the least powerful. Data‐oriented researchers have developed several such single‐ and multivariable, linear and nonlinear indices. The test of their usefulness varies with their intended purpose. For policymakers desiring the most efficient way to assess the likelihood that a nation‐state can achieve its goals, the key issues are …
International data as a national resource
Nation‐states are increasingly recognizing that banks of knowledge, including social science data, are a national resource vital for understanding the course of events. Criteria for considering a dataset in the fields of cross‐national and interstate politics to be a national resource include theoretic fertility, centrality in current research, cumulative contribution to knowledge, data quality, and methodological contribution. Published data‐bas…
Data development for international research
The Data Development for International Research (DDIR) project seeks to maintain, extend, and develop major data banks for the study and analysis of cross‐national and international political phenomena. It is the outgrowth of three years of discussions, correspondence, and seminars involving major researchers, both data collectors and data users, across the United States. Funding for 1986–89 by the National Science Foundation enables DDIR to focu…
Berlin between Two Worlds
Living within the Wall: West Berlin, 1961-1985
Divided Airwaves: The Electronic Media and Political Community in Postwar Berlin
The electronic media's role in divided Berlin and Germany has been at issue since 1945. Early Soviet control of the city's single radio station led American and British authorities to establish their own (RIAS and NWDR, the latter, renamed SFB, now operated by West Berlin and expanded to include television). SFB and, still more, RIAS program for West Berliners but, through a policy of free flow of information, seek to sustain a sense of identity …
From National Development to Global Community: Essays in Honor of Karl W. Deutsch
Public Opinion in Semisovereign Germany: The Hicog Surveys, 1949-1955
International Political Science Association News
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International Political Science Association News
Comparing nations: The Use of Quantitative Data in Cross-National Research
From National Development to Global Community: Essays in Honor of Karl W. Deutsch
Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
International data as a national resource
Nation‐states are increasingly recognizing that banks of knowledge, including social science data, are a national resource vital for understanding the course of events. Criteria for considering a dataset in the fields of cross‐national and interstate politics to be a national resource include theoretic fertility, centrality in current research, cumulative contribution to knowledge, data quality, and methodological contribution. Published data‐bas…
Measuring events for international political analysis
Scientists measure international events to explore theoretic aspects of international interaction. Rummel's DON focused on cross‐national and synchronic events, broadened to include international interactive and diachronic research. Interested in specific crises (e.g., Berlin blockade), McClelland's WEIS developed 22 event varieties (63 including subcategories) ranging nominally from conciliation (“yield”) to conflict (“force”). Azar's COPDAB exp…
Transforming international communications strategies
The strategy used by governments to communicate with foreign populations has changed dramatically in the twentieth century. The need perceived by governments to use such a strategy in the first place derived from numerous social changes in the 150 years before World War I, most particularly the increased role played in politics by the masses organized in nation‐states. The shifting strategy of persuasive communication since then forms part of a b…
Symbols of American Community, 1735-1775
Transnational Communications and the International System
Observable data on the relative share of transnational vs. national transactions in trade, travel, university studies, mail, and telephone calls reveal a common pattern. First, the absolute level of such activities has increased since 1900. Second, in developed countries the international share of these activities remained constant or declined after peaking. Third, although in such areas as science and technology international transactions have b…
Western European Perspectives on International Affairs: Public Opinion Studies and Evaluations
The Student Protest Movement in West Berlin
In the late afternoon of Maundy Thursday, 1968, twenty-three-year-old Joseph Bachmann stood expectantly on the Kiirfurstendamm, West Berlin's busiest and most brightly-lit thoroughfare. Just that morning he had arrived by train from his home in West Germany; he hoped to return home by plane on the morrow, Good Friday, after completing the important task still before him. The door to a partially bombed-out apartment building opened. Out stepped Ru…
Public Opinion in Colonial America: Content-Analyzing the Colonial Press
Among the mass media the newspaper has been by all odds the first and foremost, until recent decades, in expressing and shaping public opinion. Especially interesting is its role in the formative period of our nation. Here is a scholarly discussion of an application of content analysis to the colonial press that is not without meaning for research in the current scene. Richard L. Merritt is Assistant Professor of Political Science and research di…
Validity of power indices
An important approach to understanding power seeks a generalized measure that can rank nation‐states from the most to the least powerful. Data‐oriented researchers have developed several such single‐ and multivariable, linear and nonlinear indices. The test of their usefulness varies with their intended purpose. For policymakers desiring the most efficient way to assess the likelihood that a nation‐state can achieve its goals, the key issues are …
Democracy Imposed: U.S. Occupation Policy and the German Public, 1945-1949
Instead of studying what German political leaders and intellectuals thought about the US occupation, this text explores the response of the ordinary German people, analyzing data from public opinion surveys conducted largely by the American Military Government beginning in 1945. It poses questions such as How successful was the United States in attempting to impose a democratic system on Germany after World War II?, and Did US occupation policy a…
Data development for international research
The Data Development for International Research (DDIR) project seeks to maintain, extend, and develop major data banks for the study and analysis of cross‐national and international political phenomena. It is the outgrowth of three years of discussions, correspondence, and seminars involving major researchers, both data collectors and data users, across the United States. Funding for 1986–89 by the National Science Foundation enables DDIR to focu…
On the Transformation of Systems
How and why things change are topics that have long fascinated thinkers. My purpose, Ovid (1955: 29) wrote two thousand years ago, to tell of bodies which have been transformed into shapes of different kind. He went on to relate still more ancient stories about how out of Chaos a shapeless uncoordinated mass, nothing but weight of lifeless matter, whose ill-assorted elements were indiscriminately heaped together in one place our world was created…
Population Imbalance and Political Destabilization
Vast population growth is one of the chief dangers of our times—but perhaps not because of growth size itself. First, scientists and policy makers differ about how many more people the global system can accommodate. Early dreams of endless growth, nationalistic emphases on population quality, and neo-Malthusian claims to the limits of growth remain intellectual challenges. Actual policy is left to nation-states. Second, nation-states rarely have …
Human Behavior and International Politics: Contributions from the Social-Psychological Sciences
Normalizing the East German Media
After the “peaceful revolution” in the German Democratic Republic (CDR) in fall 1989, the more dominant western Federal Republic of Germany systematically dismantled the ex‐CDR print and electronic media. Reasons generally given stress the perceived need for systemic homogeneity in the united country, although critics also speak of unmitigated aggrandizement by western media politicians. More important for explaining the media takeover's brutalit…
Divided Airwaves: The Electronic Media and Political Community in Postwar Berlin
The electronic media's role in divided Berlin and Germany has been at issue since 1945. Early Soviet control of the city's single radio station led American and British authorities to establish their own (RIAS and NWDR, the latter, renamed SFB, now operated by West Berlin and expanded to include television). SFB and, still more, RIAS program for West Berliners but, through a policy of free flow of information, seek to sustain a sense of identity …
The “Cologne School” of Electoral Research
The “Cologne School” of electoral research, which flourished during the 1960s and early 1970s, sprang from research conducted by Erwin K. Scheuch and Rudolf Wildenmann, and included studies carried on by their students. As exemplified by the ten studies reviewed here, it brought to West German political sociologists the theories and findings from American electoral research, tested some of its assumptions with West German data on voting behavior,…
The courts, the universities and the right of admission in the Federal German Republic
Divided Berlin: One Past and Three Futures
Postwar developments in divided Berlin have much to tell us about political integration and disintegration. The city endured successive waves of wartime destruction, postwar dismantling, and, after 1948, political division. Structural division was made more permanent after 1961. Not until 1970-1972 could the wartime allies and the two postwar Germanies work out contractual arrange ments to regulate interaction between East and West Berlin. Despit…
Politics, Theater, and the East-West Struggle: The Theater as a Cultural Bridge in West Berlin, 1948-61
Journal Article Politics, Theater, and the East-West Struggle: The Theater as a Cultural Bridge in West Berlin, 1948-61 Get access Richard L. Merritt Richard L. Merritt Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 80, Issue 2, June 1965, Pages 186–215, https://doi.org/10.2307/2147739 Published: 15 June 1965
The Emergence of American Nationalism: A Quantitative Approach
magic of the primitives and the games of children, but in the process of group development and emerging nationalism as well. The designation of a group by a name-a specific name that serves as a symbol under which all would-be members of the group can unite, no less than as a means to differentiate the group from other such groups-is indicative that a group has come of age. In a situation where people are beginning to shift their primary group lo…
International Conference on the Use of Quantitative Political, Social and Cultural Data in Cross-National Comparisons: Yale University, 10-20 September, 1963 Summary Report
Selected Articles and Documents on International Law and Relations
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Public Opinion in Colonial America: Content-Analyzing the Colonial Press
Among the mass media the newspaper has been by all odds the first and foremost, until recent decades, in expressing and shaping public opinion. Especially interesting is its role in the formative period of our nation. Here is a scholarly discussion of an application of content analysis to the colonial press that is not without meaning for research in the current scene. Richard L. Merritt is Assistant Professor of Political Science and research di…
The Colonists Discover America: Attention Patterns in the Colonial Press, 1735-1775
HE extent to which the eighteenth-century American colonists comprised an integrated political community, that is, one based on a high degree of mutual contacts together with expectations of peaceful relations among its members, is a moot point among historians and political scientists. On the one hand writers such as Evarts Boutell Greene, John C. Ranney, and Kenneth Wheare have suggested that the colonies, prior to their unification, were separ…
Woodrow Wilson and the “Great and Solemn Referendum,” 1920
Several aspects of Woodrow Wilson's political thought recurred time and again in his academic writings, privately expressed opinions, official statements, and even in his actions. They formed the framework for much of his political life. One of these was his belief that, of all kinds of government, the best was that kind that was representative of and responsible to the people. Another was a concomitant of the first: a faith in the inherent abili…
Politics, Theater, and the East-West Struggle: The Theater as a Cultural Bridge in West Berlin, 1948-61
Journal Article Politics, Theater, and the East-West Struggle: The Theater as a Cultural Bridge in West Berlin, 1948-61 Get access Richard L. Merritt Richard L. Merritt Yale University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 80, Issue 2, June 1965, Pages 186–215, https://doi.org/10.2307/2147739 Published: 15 June 1965
The Emergence of American Nationalism: A Quantitative Approach
magic of the primitives and the games of children, but in the process of group development and emerging nationalism as well. The designation of a group by a name-a specific name that serves as a symbol under which all would-be members of the group can unite, no less than as a means to differentiate the group from other such groups-is indicative that a group has come of age. In a situation where people are beginning to shift their primary group lo…
Selected Articles and Documents on: Comparative Government and Cross-National Research
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Selected Articles and Documents on: International Law and Relations
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The Training Functions of a Data Library
Comparing nations: The Use of Quantitative Data in Cross-National Research
Selected Articles and Documents on International Law and Relationsx
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Selected Articles and Documents on International Law and Relations
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Symbols of American Community, 1735-1775
Human Behavior and International Politics: Contributions from the Social-Psychological Sciences
Symbols of American Community, 1735-1775
Comparing Nations: The Use of Quantitative Data in Cross-National Research
Comparing Nations: The Use of Quantitative Data in Cross-National Research
European public opinion and American policy: The Usia surveys
Symbols of American Community, 1735-1775
Symbols of American Community, 1735-1775
Western European Perspectives on International Affairs: Public Opinion Studies and Evaluations
The Student Protest Movement in West Berlin
In the late afternoon of Maundy Thursday, 1968, twenty-three-year-old Joseph Bachmann stood expectantly on the Kiirfurstendamm, West Berlin's busiest and most brightly-lit thoroughfare. Just that morning he had arrived by train from his home in West Germany; he hoped to return home by plane on the morrow, Good Friday, after completing the important task still before him. The door to a partially bombed-out apartment building opened. Out stepped Ru…
Political perspectives in Germany: The occupation period 1945 -1949
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