Kenneth R Mayer
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 306571 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kenneth R Mayer |
| PRENOMES | Kenneth R |
| SOBRENOME | Mayer |
| ASSINATURA | MAYER K R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 598 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Modeling Region Affiliation with Fuzzy Membership Based on Spatial and Social Interactions
A key challenge in regionalization is that regions, such as urban function zones or climate zones, often have indeterminate boundaries, making it difficult to exactly quantify their geographic extent. Political redistricting, as a regionalization task, deals with this problem acutely, as requirements to preserve communities of interest (COIs) do not define such communities, introducing inherent vagueness in their boundaries. To address this issue…
Identifying Rich Clubs in Spatiotemporal Interaction Networks
Spatial networks are widely used in various fields to represent and analyze interactions or relationships between locations or spatially distributed entities. Existing studies have proposed methods for hub identification and community detection in spatial networks, but relatively few have focused on quantifying the strength or density of connections shared within a community of hubs across space and time. Borrowing from network science, there is …
Mapping Literature with Networks
Understanding the gaps and connections across existing theories and findings is a perennial challenge in scientific research. Systematically reviewing scholarship is especially challenging for researchers who may lack domain expertise, including junior scholars or those exploring new substantive territory. Conversely, senior scholars may rely on long-standing assumptions and social networks that exclude new research. In both cases, ad hoc literat…
With the Stroke of a Pen
The Random Walk Presidency
Donald Trump's erratic and unpredictable behavior as president was, metaphorically at least, a Random Walk. Combined with an inexperienced White House staff and a near total absence of any meaningful decision‐making processes, the result was, routinely, unforced errors that both impeded the president’s ability to see his policy goals implemented effectively, led to poor congressional relations and, in several key cases, failures of leadership tha…
Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election
This paper is the result of a nationwide study of polling place dynamics in the 2016 presidential election. Research teams, recruited from local colleges and universities and located in twenty-eight election jurisdictions across the United States, observed and timed voters as they entered the queue at their respective polling places and then voted. We report results about four specific polling place operations and practices: the length of the che…
The Complicated Partisan Effects of State Election Laws
Conventional political wisdom holds that policies that make voting easier will increase turnout and ultimately benefit Democratic candidates. We challenge this assumption, questioning the ability of party strategists to predict which changes to election law will advantage them. Drawing on previous research, we theorize that voting laws affect who votes in diverse ways depending on the specific ways that they reduce the costs of participating. We …
Working through the Unworkable? The View from Inside an Institutional Review Board
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
What Happens at the Polling Place
Tremendous attention has been paid to local election administration since the 2000 presidential election meltdown, yet policy makers still lack basic information about what happens at the polling place. One strategy to understand the interactions between citizens and street‐level election bureaucrats is to turn to administrative data. Using logs collected by polling place workers, the authors analyze more than 66,000 individual incidents recorded…
Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout
State governments have experimented with a variety of election laws to make voting more convenient and increase turnout. The impacts of these reforms vary in surprising ways, providing insight into the mechanisms by which states can encourage or reduce turnout. Our theory focuses on mobilization and distinguishes between the direct and indirect effects of election laws. We conduct both aggregate and individual‐level statistical analyses of voter …
Selection Method, Partisanship, and the Administration of Elections
The methods used to select public officials affect the preferences they bring to office, the incentives they face while in office, and, ultimately, the policy goals they pursue. We argue that the preferences and actions of local election officials (LEOs) differ depending on whether they are elected or appointed. We test these expectations with a data set that includes the survey responses of 1,200 Wisconsin LEOs, structured interviews, census dat…
The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies
This article argues that administrative burden—that is, an individual's experience of policy implementation as onerous—is an important consideration for administrators and influences their views on policy and governance options. The authors test this proposition in the policy area of election administration using a mixed‐method assessment of local election officials. They find that the perceived administrative burden of policies is associated wit…
Thoughts on “The Revolution in Presidential Studies”
Few scholars have done more than Terry Moe to propel the presidency studies literature into its current generation. He offered—or, it could be said, insisted on—an alternative theoretical foundation, based on rational choice and economic approaches on institutional organization and development. There is little doubt that the resulting reorientation constituted a historic shift, one that happens once in a generation. While Moe overstates the impor…
Public Election Funding, Competition, and Candidate Gender
In 2000, Arizona and Maine implemented full public funding for state legislative elections, and Connecticut will do so in 2008. Candidates who opt to accept public funding receive grants that pay for the entire cost of their campaigns. Advocates of these so-called clean elections argue that the programs reducequid pro quocorruption, increase electoral competitiveness, and open up the process to candidates who lack access to traditional fundraisin…
The Last One Hundred Days
A lame duck President might look at his authority to govern in the transition period as if it were a large balloon with a slow leak.... The balloon is ineluctably shrinking with each passing week.... By the end of the year, he will have lost the attention of the permanent government and can accomplish very little. —James Pfiffner (1996, 5) As his “long goodbye ” in 2000-2001, Clinton was “a whirling dervish of a President who appointed judges, si…
Unilateral Presidential Powers
The conventional sense of presidential power remains anchored in Neustadt's notion of persuasion in a fragmented constitutional system. Here, the authors add to an emerging literature that redirects attention to formal sources of presidential authority. They examine the frequency of executive orders from 1949 to 1999 and offer new evidence that presidents rely on executive orders to effect significant policy change and send strategic signals to o…
Assessing the 2000 Presidential Election Dispute–Judicial and Social Science Perspectives
Dershowitz, Alan M. Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 275. $25.00 hardbound. Gillman, Howard. The Votes that Counted: How the Supreme Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 301. $27.50 hardbound. Greene, Abner. Understanding the 2000 Election: A Guide to the Legal Battles that Decided the Presidency. N…
Student Attitudes toward Instructional Technology in the Large Introductory U.S. Government Course
technologies have been around for more than a decade, and more and more faculty in all areas of academia are moving to computerbased instruction. The Campus Computing Project (1998), which conducts an annual survey of computer use in higher education, estimated that in 1998 nearly 45% of college and university courses used email (a 400% increase since 1994), one-third of all courses used Inter
Executive Orders and Presidential Power
This article reassesses the current paradigm of the presidential studies literature that holds that presidents have limited capacity to act unilaterally or make policy decisions on their own. I explore how presidents have used executive orders as a way of implementing significant policies unilaterally. Using an event-count analysis, I find that that the frequency of executive orders varies with substantive changes in the president's political env…
Bringing Politics Back in
In 1960, Morris Janowitz argued publication of Samuel Huntington's landmark study, The Soldier and State, represented the first time since Alexis de Tocqueville American military institutions were being analyzed as an aspect of American political process (1960; 5). A decade later, Robert Miewald criticized scholars in public administration their neglect of military. It is now obvious, he wrote, that few students of public administration have been…
The Impact of Public Financing on Electoral Competitiveness
Public financing schemes are often promoted as means of increasing the competitiveness of legislative elections and changing the way that candidates raise campaign funds. We investigate the impact that Wisconsin's system of public financing of state legislative elections, established in 1977, has had on these variables. Having compared trends in the pre- and postreform period, we find no evidence that providing challengers with public money has m…
Closing Military Bases (Finally)
In 1988 Congress established the Independent Commission on Base Realignment and Closure and gave it nearly complete authority to determine which domestic military bases would be closed. I analyze both the structure of the base-closing process and the procedural requirements imposed on the commission, and find that two factors explain the extensive delegation of power (which was unusual). First, legislators reduced the costs of any potential adver…
Electoral Cycles in Federal Government Prime Contract Awards
Theory: The political business-cycle theory is used to test for state-level accelerations in contract awards and deobligations induced by presidential elections. Hypotheses: Government contracting agencies accelerate contract awards, and reduce the level of deobligations, immediately before presidential elections. The cycles should not involve any total increase in spending. Methods: Pooled-time-series analysis of monthly Department of Defense an…
United States
Reinventing the Pentagon
The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies
This article argues that administrative burden—that is, an individual's experience of policy implementation as onerous—is an important consideration for administrators and influences their views on policy and governance options. The authors test this proposition in the policy area of election administration using a mixed‐method assessment of local election officials. They find that the perceived administrative burden of policies is associated wit…
Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout
State governments have experimented with a variety of election laws to make voting more convenient and increase turnout. The impacts of these reforms vary in surprising ways, providing insight into the mechanisms by which states can encourage or reduce turnout. Our theory focuses on mobilization and distinguishes between the direct and indirect effects of election laws. We conduct both aggregate and individual‐level statistical analyses of voter …
Executive Orders and Presidential Power
This article reassesses the current paradigm of the presidential studies literature that holds that presidents have limited capacity to act unilaterally or make policy decisions on their own. I explore how presidents have used executive orders as a way of implementing significant policies unilaterally. Using an event-count analysis, I find that that the frequency of executive orders varies with substantive changes in the president's political env…
Unilateral Presidential Powers
The conventional sense of presidential power remains anchored in Neustadt's notion of persuasion in a fragmented constitutional system. Here, the authors add to an emerging literature that redirects attention to formal sources of presidential authority. They examine the frequency of executive orders from 1949 to 1999 and offer new evidence that presidents rely on executive orders to effect significant policy change and send strategic signals to o…
The Impact of Public Financing on Electoral Competitiveness
Public financing schemes are often promoted as means of increasing the competitiveness of legislative elections and changing the way that candidates raise campaign funds. We investigate the impact that Wisconsin's system of public financing of state legislative elections, established in 1977, has had on these variables. Having compared trends in the pre- and postreform period, we find no evidence that providing challengers with public money has m…
Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election
This paper is the result of a nationwide study of polling place dynamics in the 2016 presidential election. Research teams, recruited from local colleges and universities and located in twenty-eight election jurisdictions across the United States, observed and timed voters as they entered the queue at their respective polling places and then voted. We report results about four specific polling place operations and practices: the length of the che…
The Complicated Partisan Effects of State Election Laws
Conventional political wisdom holds that policies that make voting easier will increase turnout and ultimately benefit Democratic candidates. We challenge this assumption, questioning the ability of party strategists to predict which changes to election law will advantage them. Drawing on previous research, we theorize that voting laws affect who votes in diverse ways depending on the specific ways that they reduce the costs of participating. We …
Electoral Cycles in Federal Government Prime Contract Awards
Theory: The political business-cycle theory is used to test for state-level accelerations in contract awards and deobligations induced by presidential elections. Hypotheses: Government contracting agencies accelerate contract awards, and reduce the level of deobligations, immediately before presidential elections. The cycles should not involve any total increase in spending. Methods: Pooled-time-series analysis of monthly Department of Defense an…
Closing Military Bases (Finally)
In 1988 Congress established the Independent Commission on Base Realignment and Closure and gave it nearly complete authority to determine which domestic military bases would be closed. I analyze both the structure of the base-closing process and the procedural requirements imposed on the commission, and find that two factors explain the extensive delegation of power (which was unusual). First, legislators reduced the costs of any potential adver…
The Last One Hundred Days
A lame duck President might look at his authority to govern in the transition period as if it were a large balloon with a slow leak.... The balloon is ineluctably shrinking with each passing week.... By the end of the year, he will have lost the attention of the permanent government and can accomplish very little. —James Pfiffner (1996, 5) As his “long goodbye ” in 2000-2001, Clinton was “a whirling dervish of a President who appointed judges, si…
Bringing Politics Back in
In 1960, Morris Janowitz argued publication of Samuel Huntington's landmark study, The Soldier and State, represented the first time since Alexis de Tocqueville American military institutions were being analyzed as an aspect of American political process (1960; 5). A decade later, Robert Miewald criticized scholars in public administration their neglect of military. It is now obvious, he wrote, that few students of public administration have been…
Public Election Funding, Competition, and Candidate Gender
In 2000, Arizona and Maine implemented full public funding for state legislative elections, and Connecticut will do so in 2008. Candidates who opt to accept public funding receive grants that pay for the entire cost of their campaigns. Advocates of these so-called clean elections argue that the programs reducequid pro quocorruption, increase electoral competitiveness, and open up the process to candidates who lack access to traditional fundraisin…
The Political Economy of Defense Contracting
Many people suspect that politics drives American defence spending. They feel that Congressional decisions about which weapons systems should be supported and Pentagon decisions about which companies should build them are made on political considerations of local economic impact, and that Congress looks to the defence budget as a huge pork barrel project. In this book Kenneth R. Mayer draws on previously unavailable data on recent defence subcont…
What Happens at the Polling Place
Tremendous attention has been paid to local election administration since the 2000 presidential election meltdown, yet policy makers still lack basic information about what happens at the polling place. One strategy to understand the interactions between citizens and street‐level election bureaucrats is to turn to administrative data. Using logs collected by polling place workers, the authors analyze more than 66,000 individual incidents recorded…
Selection Method, Partisanship, and the Administration of Elections
The methods used to select public officials affect the preferences they bring to office, the incentives they face while in office, and, ultimately, the policy goals they pursue. We argue that the preferences and actions of local election officials (LEOs) differ depending on whether they are elected or appointed. We test these expectations with a data set that includes the survey responses of 1,200 Wisconsin LEOs, structured interviews, census dat…
Policy Disputes as a Source of Administrative Controls
Is congressional micromanagement an unwarranted and inappropriate intrusion into the operations of the federal bureaucracy? Focusing on congressional oversight of the Defense Department, Kenneth R. Mayer shows that budgetary and administrative micromanagement are legislative tools for achieving policy preferences within DoD. He argues that calls for reform of micromanagement must take the policy making prerogatives of Congress into account. Congr…
Student Attitudes toward Instructional Technology in the Large Introductory U.S. Government Course
technologies have been around for more than a decade, and more and more faculty in all areas of academia are moving to computerbased instruction. The Campus Computing Project (1998), which conducts an annual survey of computer use in higher education, estimated that in 1998 nearly 45% of college and university courses used email (a 400% increase since 1994), one-third of all courses used Inter
Modeling Region Affiliation with Fuzzy Membership Based on Spatial and Social Interactions
A key challenge in regionalization is that regions, such as urban function zones or climate zones, often have indeterminate boundaries, making it difficult to exactly quantify their geographic extent. Political redistricting, as a regionalization task, deals with this problem acutely, as requirements to preserve communities of interest (COIs) do not define such communities, introducing inherent vagueness in their boundaries. To address this issue…
Identifying Rich Clubs in Spatiotemporal Interaction Networks
Spatial networks are widely used in various fields to represent and analyze interactions or relationships between locations or spatially distributed entities. Existing studies have proposed methods for hub identification and community detection in spatial networks, but relatively few have focused on quantifying the strength or density of connections shared within a community of hubs across space and time. Borrowing from network science, there is …
The Random Walk Presidency
Donald Trump's erratic and unpredictable behavior as president was, metaphorically at least, a Random Walk. Combined with an inexperienced White House staff and a near total absence of any meaningful decision‐making processes, the result was, routinely, unforced errors that both impeded the president’s ability to see his policy goals implemented effectively, led to poor congressional relations and, in several key cases, failures of leadership tha…
Thoughts on “The Revolution in Presidential Studies”
Few scholars have done more than Terry Moe to propel the presidency studies literature into its current generation. He offered—or, it could be said, insisted on—an alternative theoretical foundation, based on rational choice and economic approaches on institutional organization and development. There is little doubt that the resulting reorientation constituted a historic shift, one that happens once in a generation. While Moe overstates the impor…
The Political Economy of Defense Contracting
Many people suspect that politics drives American defence spending. They feel that Congressional decisions about which weapons systems should be supported and Pentagon decisions about which companies should build them are made on political considerations of local economic impact, and that Congress looks to the defence budget as a huge pork barrel project. In this book Kenneth R. Mayer draws on previously unavailable data on recent defence subcont…
United States
Reinventing the Pentagon
Policy Disputes as a Source of Administrative Controls
Is congressional micromanagement an unwarranted and inappropriate intrusion into the operations of the federal bureaucracy? Focusing on congressional oversight of the Defense Department, Kenneth R. Mayer shows that budgetary and administrative micromanagement are legislative tools for achieving policy preferences within DoD. He argues that calls for reform of micromanagement must take the policy making prerogatives of Congress into account. Congr…
The Impact of Public Financing on Electoral Competitiveness
Public financing schemes are often promoted as means of increasing the competitiveness of legislative elections and changing the way that candidates raise campaign funds. We investigate the impact that Wisconsin's system of public financing of state legislative elections, established in 1977, has had on these variables. Having compared trends in the pre- and postreform period, we find no evidence that providing challengers with public money has m…
Closing Military Bases (Finally)
In 1988 Congress established the Independent Commission on Base Realignment and Closure and gave it nearly complete authority to determine which domestic military bases would be closed. I analyze both the structure of the base-closing process and the procedural requirements imposed on the commission, and find that two factors explain the extensive delegation of power (which was unusual). First, legislators reduced the costs of any potential adver…
Electoral Cycles in Federal Government Prime Contract Awards
Theory: The political business-cycle theory is used to test for state-level accelerations in contract awards and deobligations induced by presidential elections. Hypotheses: Government contracting agencies accelerate contract awards, and reduce the level of deobligations, immediately before presidential elections. The cycles should not involve any total increase in spending. Methods: Pooled-time-series analysis of monthly Department of Defense an…
Bringing Politics Back in
In 1960, Morris Janowitz argued publication of Samuel Huntington's landmark study, The Soldier and State, represented the first time since Alexis de Tocqueville American military institutions were being analyzed as an aspect of American political process (1960; 5). A decade later, Robert Miewald criticized scholars in public administration their neglect of military. It is now obvious, he wrote, that few students of public administration have been…
Executive Orders and Presidential Power
This article reassesses the current paradigm of the presidential studies literature that holds that presidents have limited capacity to act unilaterally or make policy decisions on their own. I explore how presidents have used executive orders as a way of implementing significant policies unilaterally. Using an event-count analysis, I find that that the frequency of executive orders varies with substantive changes in the president's political env…
Student Attitudes toward Instructional Technology in the Large Introductory U.S. Government Course
technologies have been around for more than a decade, and more and more faculty in all areas of academia are moving to computerbased instruction. The Campus Computing Project (1998), which conducts an annual survey of computer use in higher education, estimated that in 1998 nearly 45% of college and university courses used email (a 400% increase since 1994), one-third of all courses used Inter
Unilateral Presidential Powers
The conventional sense of presidential power remains anchored in Neustadt's notion of persuasion in a fragmented constitutional system. Here, the authors add to an emerging literature that redirects attention to formal sources of presidential authority. They examine the frequency of executive orders from 1949 to 1999 and offer new evidence that presidents rely on executive orders to effect significant policy change and send strategic signals to o…
Assessing the 2000 Presidential Election Dispute–Judicial and Social Science Perspectives
Dershowitz, Alan M. Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 275. $25.00 hardbound. Gillman, Howard. The Votes that Counted: How the Supreme Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. xxiv, 301. $27.50 hardbound. Greene, Abner. Understanding the 2000 Election: A Guide to the Legal Battles that Decided the Presidency. N…
The Last One Hundred Days
A lame duck President might look at his authority to govern in the transition period as if it were a large balloon with a slow leak.... The balloon is ineluctably shrinking with each passing week.... By the end of the year, he will have lost the attention of the permanent government and can accomplish very little. —James Pfiffner (1996, 5) As his “long goodbye ” in 2000-2001, Clinton was “a whirling dervish of a President who appointed judges, si…
Public Election Funding, Competition, and Candidate Gender
In 2000, Arizona and Maine implemented full public funding for state legislative elections, and Connecticut will do so in 2008. Candidates who opt to accept public funding receive grants that pay for the entire cost of their campaigns. Advocates of these so-called clean elections argue that the programs reducequid pro quocorruption, increase electoral competitiveness, and open up the process to candidates who lack access to traditional fundraisin…
Thoughts on “The Revolution in Presidential Studies”
Few scholars have done more than Terry Moe to propel the presidency studies literature into its current generation. He offered—or, it could be said, insisted on—an alternative theoretical foundation, based on rational choice and economic approaches on institutional organization and development. There is little doubt that the resulting reorientation constituted a historic shift, one that happens once in a generation. While Moe overstates the impor…
The Effect of Administrative Burden on Bureaucratic Perception of Policies
This article argues that administrative burden—that is, an individual's experience of policy implementation as onerous—is an important consideration for administrators and influences their views on policy and governance options. The authors test this proposition in the policy area of election administration using a mixed‐method assessment of local election officials. They find that the perceived administrative burden of policies is associated wit…
Selection Method, Partisanship, and the Administration of Elections
The methods used to select public officials affect the preferences they bring to office, the incentives they face while in office, and, ultimately, the policy goals they pursue. We argue that the preferences and actions of local election officials (LEOs) differ depending on whether they are elected or appointed. We test these expectations with a data set that includes the survey responses of 1,200 Wisconsin LEOs, structured interviews, census dat…
Election Laws, Mobilization, and Turnout
State governments have experimented with a variety of election laws to make voting more convenient and increase turnout. The impacts of these reforms vary in surprising ways, providing insight into the mechanisms by which states can encourage or reduce turnout. Our theory focuses on mobilization and distinguishes between the direct and indirect effects of election laws. We conduct both aggregate and individual‐level statistical analyses of voter …
Working through the Unworkable? The View from Inside an Institutional Review Board
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
What Happens at the Polling Place
Tremendous attention has been paid to local election administration since the 2000 presidential election meltdown, yet policy makers still lack basic information about what happens at the polling place. One strategy to understand the interactions between citizens and street‐level election bureaucrats is to turn to administrative data. Using logs collected by polling place workers, the authors analyze more than 66,000 individual incidents recorded…
The Complicated Partisan Effects of State Election Laws
Conventional political wisdom holds that policies that make voting easier will increase turnout and ultimately benefit Democratic candidates. We challenge this assumption, questioning the ability of party strategists to predict which changes to election law will advantage them. Drawing on previous research, we theorize that voting laws affect who votes in diverse ways depending on the specific ways that they reduce the costs of participating. We …
Waiting to Vote in the 2016 Presidential Election
This paper is the result of a nationwide study of polling place dynamics in the 2016 presidential election. Research teams, recruited from local colleges and universities and located in twenty-eight election jurisdictions across the United States, observed and timed voters as they entered the queue at their respective polling places and then voted. We report results about four specific polling place operations and practices: the length of the che…
With the Stroke of a Pen
The Random Walk Presidency
Donald Trump's erratic and unpredictable behavior as president was, metaphorically at least, a Random Walk. Combined with an inexperienced White House staff and a near total absence of any meaningful decision‐making processes, the result was, routinely, unforced errors that both impeded the president’s ability to see his policy goals implemented effectively, led to poor congressional relations and, in several key cases, failures of leadership tha…
Mapping Literature with Networks
Understanding the gaps and connections across existing theories and findings is a perennial challenge in scientific research. Systematically reviewing scholarship is especially challenging for researchers who may lack domain expertise, including junior scholars or those exploring new substantive territory. Conversely, senior scholars may rely on long-standing assumptions and social networks that exclude new research. In both cases, ad hoc literat…
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