Ronald D Hedlund
Biographic Data
| ID | 293515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ronald D Hedlund |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ronald D |
| FAMILY NAME | Hedlund |
| SIGNATURE | HEDLUND R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 294 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
An Alternative Route to Voting Reform: The Right to Vote, Voter Registration, Redistricting and U.S. State Constitutions
The U.S. Constitution reserves to states the responsibility for regulating most aspects of elections. Recently, the Supreme Court has weakened the tools for federal officials to challenge state elections practices under the Voting Rights Act and signaled a great deal of deference to state authority over election law. As a result, state legislatures’ latitude to regulate elections is constrained primarily by state constitutions. With voter ID laws…
Committee Specialization in U.S. State Legislatures during the 20th Century: Do Legislatures Tap the Talents of Their Members
The authors use an informational-theoretical perspective to examine the appointment of legislative committees, using new measures of knowledge and expertise as well as a unique database. While competing theories (distributive and partisan) do not deny that legislative committees are a source of vital knowledge and expertise necessary for legislative policy making, information theory places the wisdom and expertise needs of collective decision mak…
Partisan Stacking on Legislative Committees
One aspect of the partisan model for legislative committee development that is rarely studied is the degree to which the majority party seeks to control legislative committees—and, thereby, chamber decisions—via numerically “overproportional” majority party representation on standing committees. This form of “party stacking” is often mentioned in the literature but has received little systematic examination and hypothesis testing. Using data from…
Measuring State Legislative Committee Power: Change and Chamber Differences in the 20th Century
Committees became a vital component of the decisionmaking process in most legislative bodies around the world during the 20th century. However, very little is known about how their status evolved. In particular, the complexity of, and variation among, committee systems have made it difficult for researchers to assess fully their role in lawmaking. We present a way to measure the structural nature of committee power in state legislatures in the Un…
Electoral Reforms, Membership Stability and the Existence of Committee Property Rights in American State Legislatures
One of the most creative theories advanced about legislative organization in recent years is Katz and Sala's linkage of the development of committee property rights in the US House of Representatives to the introduction of the Australian ballot. Katz and Sala argue that the Australian ballot – a government-printed ballot cast in secret that replaced a party-produced ballot that was cast in public – gave members of the House an incentive to pursue…
Structuring Committee Decision-Making: Rules and Procedures in US State Legislatures
The rediscovery of rules and procedures as an important element for understanding legislative decision-making has become very apparent in recent summaries of research on Congress and European Parliaments. Institutional factors are now seen as critical factors that structure and restrict how individual legislators can go about their decision-making responsibilities. The goal of this article is to provide a landscape of the evolution of committee s…
Political Parties as Vehicles for Organizing U. S. State Legislative Committees
In this paper we assess the role of political parties in organizing state legislative committees. This research is guided by an explanation found in Malcolm E. Jewell's early work on responsible political parties in U.S. state legislatures and in his more recent assessment of the conditions associated with state legislative control by strong political parties. We evaluate majority party representation (MPR) on the membership of all standing commi…
The Functions of Committee Change in State Legislatures
Little research has focused on the changes made in individual legislative committees through time. In this study we do a committee-by-committee analysis to determine the extent to which various committees were added, dropped, or had jurisdictional change in each chamber of eighteen states over a twenty-year period (1971-91). Using propositions adopted from organizational theory, we predict that committees are altered to help the legislature respo…
The Electoral Antecedents of State Legislative Committee Assignments
Accounting for Change in the Number of State Legislative Committee Positions
Entering the Committee System: State Committee Assignments
Cl ONTEMPORARY American legislatures are organized around committee systems which are largely responsible for how legislatures work and what they accomplish. Any analysis or description of Congress or a state legislature gives a prominent position to committees and the roles they play; however, the emphasis in committee research has been on Congress. One important yet understudied area of state committee activity relates to the committee appointm…
Wilder W. Crane
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
Women and Public Service Employment: Sex Differences in the Delivery of ”Manpower” Services
As more and more women attempt to enter the private labor market and, more particularly, find themselves without employment, information on how women fare in various governmental job programs becomes especially important. Our analysis of CETA programming in Milwaukee indicates that women, especially blacks, often experienced greater need but less placement activity on their behalf, and received lower quality employment than did their male counter…
Women and public service employment: Sex differences in the delivery of “manpower” services
Organizational Attributes of Legislatures: Structure, Rules, Norms, Resources
Although the behavioral approach in political science has profoundly affected the analysis of legislatures, focusing on individual level data to the seeming exclusion of organizational factors, recent research has recognized and documented the influence of organizational variables. This review essay describes research on organizational factors and considers how variables related to legislative structure and technology-formal features, rules and p…
A Strategy for Measuring the Performance of Legislatures in Processing Decisions
Using organization theory, this study develops and tests a strategy for measuring legislative performance in processing decisions. Data collected from Iowa and Wisconsin for a twelve-year period show that variables representing different organizational attributes-personnel, technology and product use, structure, and task division-explain modest proportions of this type of legislative performance. Although this is an exploratory study because of i…
The Electability of Women Candidates: The Effects of Sex Role Stereotypes
Representatives and Represented: Bases of Public Support for the American Legislatures
Cross-Over Voting in a 1976 Open Presidential Primary
Using data collected from a polling place survey with 1,279 voters in the four-county metropolitan Milwaukee area, this report considers how much cross-over voting took place in the 1976 presidential primary, the degree to which the cross-over vote was a mischief one, the social backgrounds of cross-over and consistent voters, and the reasons cited for the candidate choice of cross-over and consistent voters
Conflict and Perceived Group Benefits from Legislative Rules Changes
Research in the 1973-74 Wisconsin Assembly was begun to ascertain how members perceived eight important interest sectors-political parties, governor, floor leadership, labor, liberals, cities, Milwaukee, and management-faring under a new set of rules and procedures. Data were collected from interviews with Representatives at the beginning and the end of the session. Analysis of these data show that three factorspolitical party, salience of the in…
Perceptions of Decisional Referents in Legislative Decisionmaking
Previous studies of American legislative behavior have postulated that legislators seek to maximize certain values in their choice-making behavior and to minimize others. Using data collected in Iowa, this study examines the rankings given to six such middle-range values, labelled decisional referents or criteria-state interests, district interests, legislator's conscience, governor's preferences, political parties, and interest groups-by three t…
Reflections on Political Internships
Despite widespread and growing interest among students and faculty in using practical political involvement as an adjunct to formal classroom teaching, professional academic literature offers little guidance regarding such programs. As Professors Hirschfield and Adler point out, political science literature has largely ignored questions regarding the scope, structure and strategies of internship programs. Anyone concerned with how students respon…
Psychological Predispositions: Political Representatives and the Public
Representatives' Perceptions of Constituency Opinion
The Missing Links in Legislative Politics: Attentive Constituents
Representatives' Perceptions of Constituency Opinion
The Electability of Women Candidates: The Effects of Sex Role Stereotypes
Committee Specialization in U.S. State Legislatures during the 20th Century: Do Legislatures Tap the Talents of Their Members
The authors use an informational-theoretical perspective to examine the appointment of legislative committees, using new measures of knowledge and expertise as well as a unique database. While competing theories (distributive and partisan) do not deny that legislative committees are a source of vital knowledge and expertise necessary for legislative policy making, information theory places the wisdom and expertise needs of collective decision mak…
A Strategy for Measuring the Performance of Legislatures in Processing Decisions
Using organization theory, this study develops and tests a strategy for measuring legislative performance in processing decisions. Data collected from Iowa and Wisconsin for a twelve-year period show that variables representing different organizational attributes-personnel, technology and product use, structure, and task division-explain modest proportions of this type of legislative performance. Although this is an exploratory study because of i…
Political Parties as Vehicles for Organizing U. S. State Legislative Committees
In this paper we assess the role of political parties in organizing state legislative committees. This research is guided by an explanation found in Malcolm E. Jewell's early work on responsible political parties in U.S. state legislatures and in his more recent assessment of the conditions associated with state legislative control by strong political parties. We evaluate majority party representation (MPR) on the membership of all standing commi…
The Functions of Committee Change in State Legislatures
Little research has focused on the changes made in individual legislative committees through time. In this study we do a committee-by-committee analysis to determine the extent to which various committees were added, dropped, or had jurisdictional change in each chamber of eighteen states over a twenty-year period (1971-91). Using propositions adopted from organizational theory, we predict that committees are altered to help the legislature respo…
Partisan Stacking on Legislative Committees
One aspect of the partisan model for legislative committee development that is rarely studied is the degree to which the majority party seeks to control legislative committees—and, thereby, chamber decisions—via numerically “overproportional” majority party representation on standing committees. This form of “party stacking” is often mentioned in the literature but has received little systematic examination and hypothesis testing. Using data from…
Organizational Attributes of Legislatures: Structure, Rules, Norms, Resources
Although the behavioral approach in political science has profoundly affected the analysis of legislatures, focusing on individual level data to the seeming exclusion of organizational factors, recent research has recognized and documented the influence of organizational variables. This review essay describes research on organizational factors and considers how variables related to legislative structure and technology-formal features, rules and p…
Accounting for Change in the Number of State Legislative Committee Positions
Cross-Over Voting in a 1976 Open Presidential Primary
Using data collected from a polling place survey with 1,279 voters in the four-county metropolitan Milwaukee area, this report considers how much cross-over voting took place in the 1976 presidential primary, the degree to which the cross-over vote was a mischief one, the social backgrounds of cross-over and consistent voters, and the reasons cited for the candidate choice of cross-over and consistent voters
Perceptions and Expectations of the Legislature and Support for It
In this study, based on a random household probability sample of 1,001 Iowa adults, the basic hypothesis is that congruence between perceptions and expectations about the legislature leads to high support for the legislature, and incongruence between perceptions and expectations leads to low support for the legislature. Data from the Iowa sample provide tentative confirmation of this hypothesis. Congruent and incongruent groups on each of ten fac…
Measuring State Legislative Committee Power: Change and Chamber Differences in the 20th Century
Committees became a vital component of the decisionmaking process in most legislative bodies around the world during the 20th century. However, very little is known about how their status evolved. In particular, the complexity of, and variation among, committee systems have made it difficult for researchers to assess fully their role in lawmaking. We present a way to measure the structural nature of committee power in state legislatures in the Un…
Electoral Reforms, Membership Stability and the Existence of Committee Property Rights in American State Legislatures
One of the most creative theories advanced about legislative organization in recent years is Katz and Sala's linkage of the development of committee property rights in the US House of Representatives to the introduction of the Australian ballot. Katz and Sala argue that the Australian ballot – a government-printed ballot cast in secret that replaced a party-produced ballot that was cast in public – gave members of the House an incentive to pursue…
The Missing Links in Legislative Politics: Attentive Constituents
Structuring Committee Decision-Making: Rules and Procedures in US State Legislatures
The rediscovery of rules and procedures as an important element for understanding legislative decision-making has become very apparent in recent summaries of research on Congress and European Parliaments. Institutional factors are now seen as critical factors that structure and restrict how individual legislators can go about their decision-making responsibilities. The goal of this article is to provide a landscape of the evolution of committee s…
The Electoral Antecedents of State Legislative Committee Assignments
Entering the Committee System: State Committee Assignments
Cl ONTEMPORARY American legislatures are organized around committee systems which are largely responsible for how legislatures work and what they accomplish. Any analysis or description of Congress or a state legislature gives a prominent position to committees and the roles they play; however, the emphasis in committee research has been on Congress. One important yet understudied area of state committee activity relates to the committee appointm…
Conflict and Perceived Group Benefits from Legislative Rules Changes
Research in the 1973-74 Wisconsin Assembly was begun to ascertain how members perceived eight important interest sectors-political parties, governor, floor leadership, labor, liberals, cities, Milwaukee, and management-faring under a new set of rules and procedures. Data were collected from interviews with Representatives at the beginning and the end of the session. Analysis of these data show that three factorspolitical party, salience of the in…
An Alternative Route to Voting Reform: The Right to Vote, Voter Registration, Redistricting and U.S. State Constitutions
The U.S. Constitution reserves to states the responsibility for regulating most aspects of elections. Recently, the Supreme Court has weakened the tools for federal officials to challenge state elections practices under the Voting Rights Act and signaled a great deal of deference to state authority over election law. As a result, state legislatures’ latitude to regulate elections is constrained primarily by state constitutions. With voter ID laws…
Perceptions of Decisional Referents in Legislative Decisionmaking
Previous studies of American legislative behavior have postulated that legislators seek to maximize certain values in their choice-making behavior and to minimize others. Using data collected in Iowa, this study examines the rankings given to six such middle-range values, labelled decisional referents or criteria-state interests, district interests, legislator's conscience, governor's preferences, political parties, and interest groups-by three t…
Reflections on Political Internships
Despite widespread and growing interest among students and faculty in using practical political involvement as an adjunct to formal classroom teaching, professional academic literature offers little guidance regarding such programs. As Professors Hirschfield and Adler point out, political science literature has largely ignored questions regarding the scope, structure and strategies of internship programs. Anyone concerned with how students respon…
Psychological Predispositions: Political Representatives and the Public
The Missing Links in Legislative Politics: Attentive Constituents
Perceptions and Expectations of the Legislature and Support for It
In this study, based on a random household probability sample of 1,001 Iowa adults, the basic hypothesis is that congruence between perceptions and expectations about the legislature leads to high support for the legislature, and incongruence between perceptions and expectations leads to low support for the legislature. Data from the Iowa sample provide tentative confirmation of this hypothesis. Congruent and incongruent groups on each of ten fac…
Representatives' Perceptions of Constituency Opinion
Reflections on Political Internships
Despite widespread and growing interest among students and faculty in using practical political involvement as an adjunct to formal classroom teaching, professional academic literature offers little guidance regarding such programs. As Professors Hirschfield and Adler point out, political science literature has largely ignored questions regarding the scope, structure and strategies of internship programs. Anyone concerned with how students respon…
Psychological Predispositions: Political Representatives and the Public
Perceptions of Decisional Referents in Legislative Decisionmaking
Previous studies of American legislative behavior have postulated that legislators seek to maximize certain values in their choice-making behavior and to minimize others. Using data collected in Iowa, this study examines the rankings given to six such middle-range values, labelled decisional referents or criteria-state interests, district interests, legislator's conscience, governor's preferences, political parties, and interest groups-by three t…
Conflict and Perceived Group Benefits from Legislative Rules Changes
Research in the 1973-74 Wisconsin Assembly was begun to ascertain how members perceived eight important interest sectors-political parties, governor, floor leadership, labor, liberals, cities, Milwaukee, and management-faring under a new set of rules and procedures. Data were collected from interviews with Representatives at the beginning and the end of the session. Analysis of these data show that three factorspolitical party, salience of the in…
Cross-Over Voting in a 1976 Open Presidential Primary
Using data collected from a polling place survey with 1,279 voters in the four-county metropolitan Milwaukee area, this report considers how much cross-over voting took place in the 1976 presidential primary, the degree to which the cross-over vote was a mischief one, the social backgrounds of cross-over and consistent voters, and the reasons cited for the candidate choice of cross-over and consistent voters
Representatives and Represented: Bases of Public Support for the American Legislatures
The Electability of Women Candidates: The Effects of Sex Role Stereotypes
A Strategy for Measuring the Performance of Legislatures in Processing Decisions
Using organization theory, this study develops and tests a strategy for measuring legislative performance in processing decisions. Data collected from Iowa and Wisconsin for a twelve-year period show that variables representing different organizational attributes-personnel, technology and product use, structure, and task division-explain modest proportions of this type of legislative performance. Although this is an exploratory study because of i…
Women and Public Service Employment: Sex Differences in the Delivery of ”Manpower” Services
As more and more women attempt to enter the private labor market and, more particularly, find themselves without employment, information on how women fare in various governmental job programs becomes especially important. Our analysis of CETA programming in Milwaukee indicates that women, especially blacks, often experienced greater need but less placement activity on their behalf, and received lower quality employment than did their male counter…
Women and public service employment: Sex differences in the delivery of “manpower” services
Organizational Attributes of Legislatures: Structure, Rules, Norms, Resources
Although the behavioral approach in political science has profoundly affected the analysis of legislatures, focusing on individual level data to the seeming exclusion of organizational factors, recent research has recognized and documented the influence of organizational variables. This review essay describes research on organizational factors and considers how variables related to legislative structure and technology-formal features, rules and p…
Wilder W. Crane
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
Entering the Committee System: State Committee Assignments
Cl ONTEMPORARY American legislatures are organized around committee systems which are largely responsible for how legislatures work and what they accomplish. Any analysis or description of Congress or a state legislature gives a prominent position to committees and the roles they play; however, the emphasis in committee research has been on Congress. One important yet understudied area of state committee activity relates to the committee appointm…
Accounting for Change in the Number of State Legislative Committee Positions
The Electoral Antecedents of State Legislative Committee Assignments
The Functions of Committee Change in State Legislatures
Little research has focused on the changes made in individual legislative committees through time. In this study we do a committee-by-committee analysis to determine the extent to which various committees were added, dropped, or had jurisdictional change in each chamber of eighteen states over a twenty-year period (1971-91). Using propositions adopted from organizational theory, we predict that committees are altered to help the legislature respo…
Political Parties as Vehicles for Organizing U. S. State Legislative Committees
In this paper we assess the role of political parties in organizing state legislative committees. This research is guided by an explanation found in Malcolm E. Jewell's early work on responsible political parties in U.S. state legislatures and in his more recent assessment of the conditions associated with state legislative control by strong political parties. We evaluate majority party representation (MPR) on the membership of all standing commi…
Structuring Committee Decision-Making: Rules and Procedures in US State Legislatures
The rediscovery of rules and procedures as an important element for understanding legislative decision-making has become very apparent in recent summaries of research on Congress and European Parliaments. Institutional factors are now seen as critical factors that structure and restrict how individual legislators can go about their decision-making responsibilities. The goal of this article is to provide a landscape of the evolution of committee s…
Electoral Reforms, Membership Stability and the Existence of Committee Property Rights in American State Legislatures
One of the most creative theories advanced about legislative organization in recent years is Katz and Sala's linkage of the development of committee property rights in the US House of Representatives to the introduction of the Australian ballot. Katz and Sala argue that the Australian ballot – a government-printed ballot cast in secret that replaced a party-produced ballot that was cast in public – gave members of the House an incentive to pursue…
Measuring State Legislative Committee Power: Change and Chamber Differences in the 20th Century
Committees became a vital component of the decisionmaking process in most legislative bodies around the world during the 20th century. However, very little is known about how their status evolved. In particular, the complexity of, and variation among, committee systems have made it difficult for researchers to assess fully their role in lawmaking. We present a way to measure the structural nature of committee power in state legislatures in the Un…
Partisan Stacking on Legislative Committees
One aspect of the partisan model for legislative committee development that is rarely studied is the degree to which the majority party seeks to control legislative committees—and, thereby, chamber decisions—via numerically “overproportional” majority party representation on standing committees. This form of “party stacking” is often mentioned in the literature but has received little systematic examination and hypothesis testing. Using data from…
Committee Specialization in U.S. State Legislatures during the 20th Century: Do Legislatures Tap the Talents of Their Members
The authors use an informational-theoretical perspective to examine the appointment of legislative committees, using new measures of knowledge and expertise as well as a unique database. While competing theories (distributive and partisan) do not deny that legislative committees are a source of vital knowledge and expertise necessary for legislative policy making, information theory places the wisdom and expertise needs of collective decision mak…
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