Kenneth R Mladenka
Biographic Data
| ID | 322909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kenneth R Mladenka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kenneth R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mladenka |
| SIGNATURE | MLADENKA K R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Government University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 250 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Does Politics Matter? A Time-Series Analysis of Minority Employment Patterns
Public sector jobs represent a major source of political and economic progress for racial minorities. However, wide variation exists across United States cities with respect to how effectively minorities have been able to lay claim to an equitable share of these jobs. Past research suggests that the election of a minority mayor plays a major role in successful employment strategies. Previous studies, however, have been limited by reliance on cros…
Public Employee Unions, Reformism, and Black Employment in 1,200 American Cities
This research was undertaken to examine the impact of political, economic, and institutional variables upon black employment outcomes in several hundred American cities. The results reveal that public employee unions exert a significant negative impact upon black job success in unreformed cities. However, public employee unions do not influence minority employment patterns in reformed communities. These findings strongly suggest that a critical r…
The Distribution of an Urban Public Service: The Changing Role of Race and Politics
The research on the distribution of urban public services has made a valuable contribution in enhancing our understanding of urban politics. However, this literature is criticized because the authors employed cross-sectional rather than longitudinal designs, relied upon single rather than multiple indicators of the distributional pattern, and emphasized bureaucratic rather than political explanations of distributional outcomes. In this article, t…
Blacks and Hispanics in Urban Politics
Are local political institutions responsive to the demands of racial minorities for a more equitable share of scarce public resources? Does an enhanced political presence improve black and Hispanic prospects in the struggle for public jobs? Based upon data for 1200 cities, my analysis reveals that while minority council members make a substantial contribution to employment success, minority mayors do not. For blacks, an interactive effect was als…
Citizen Demands and Urban Services: The Distribution of Bureaucratic Response in Chicago and Houston
Citizen contacts with public authorities are a major form of political participation in American cities. Is this demand-response relationship politicized? Do public officials view their control over responsiveness to citizen grievances as a political resource that can be used to reward and punish, or is responsiveness accomplished according to routinized procedures institutionalized in a set of bureaucratic decision rules? Relying upon a variety …
The Urban Bureaucracy and the Chicago Political Machine: Who Gets What and the Limits to Political Control
It has long been assumed that urban political machines trade services for votes. However, this study of Chicago found no evidence to suggest that the political machine uses vital public services to reward loyal supporters and to punish enemies. With few exceptions, distribution patterns are a function of past decisions, population shifts, technological changes, and reliance upon technical-rational criteria and professional values. The urban burea…
The Distribution of Urban Police Services
The Distribution of Benefits in an Urban Environment: Parks and Libraries in Houston
The research reported here examines the neighborhood distribution of park and library services in Houston. The analysis reveals that inequalities in distribution on the basis of race and wealth are dispersed rather than cumulative. The distribution of park acreage and facilities is equal while the location pattern is skewed in the direction of low income neighborhoods. The distribution of library resources favors upper income neighbor hoods, whil…
Citizen Demand and Bureaucratic Response: Direct Dialing Democracy in a Major American City
A Reexamination of the Etiology of Urban Crime
Ecological analysis of crime rates has been a traditionally important approach to analyzing the causes of crime. Over the years, this approach has profited from the use of increasingly sophisticated data analysis techniques. A recent article in this journal on intracity crime rates offered such an analytic refinement—with the discovery of similar curvilinear relationships between both personal and property crime and customary socioeconomic predic…
The Development of Political Orientations A Partial Test of a Cognitive-Developmental Hypothesis
Blacks and Hispanics in Urban Politics
Are local political institutions responsive to the demands of racial minorities for a more equitable share of scarce public resources? Does an enhanced political presence improve black and Hispanic prospects in the struggle for public jobs? Based upon data for 1200 cities, my analysis reveals that while minority council members make a substantial contribution to employment success, minority mayors do not. For blacks, an interactive effect was als…
The Urban Bureaucracy and the Chicago Political Machine: Who Gets What and the Limits to Political Control
It has long been assumed that urban political machines trade services for votes. However, this study of Chicago found no evidence to suggest that the political machine uses vital public services to reward loyal supporters and to punish enemies. With few exceptions, distribution patterns are a function of past decisions, population shifts, technological changes, and reliance upon technical-rational criteria and professional values. The urban burea…
Citizen Demands and Urban Services: The Distribution of Bureaucratic Response in Chicago and Houston
Citizen contacts with public authorities are a major form of political participation in American cities. Is this demand-response relationship politicized? Do public officials view their control over responsiveness to citizen grievances as a political resource that can be used to reward and punish, or is responsiveness accomplished according to routinized procedures institutionalized in a set of bureaucratic decision rules? Relying upon a variety …
Does Politics Matter? A Time-Series Analysis of Minority Employment Patterns
Public sector jobs represent a major source of political and economic progress for racial minorities. However, wide variation exists across United States cities with respect to how effectively minorities have been able to lay claim to an equitable share of these jobs. Past research suggests that the election of a minority mayor plays a major role in successful employment strategies. Previous studies, however, have been limited by reliance on cros…
The Distribution of Urban Police Services
A Reexamination of the Etiology of Urban Crime
Ecological analysis of crime rates has been a traditionally important approach to analyzing the causes of crime. Over the years, this approach has profited from the use of increasingly sophisticated data analysis techniques. A recent article in this journal on intracity crime rates offered such an analytic refinement—with the discovery of similar curvilinear relationships between both personal and property crime and customary socioeconomic predic…
The Development of Political Orientations A Partial Test of a Cognitive-Developmental Hypothesis
The Development of Political Orientations A Partial Test of a Cognitive-Developmental Hypothesis
A Reexamination of the Etiology of Urban Crime
Ecological analysis of crime rates has been a traditionally important approach to analyzing the causes of crime. Over the years, this approach has profited from the use of increasingly sophisticated data analysis techniques. A recent article in this journal on intracity crime rates offered such an analytic refinement—with the discovery of similar curvilinear relationships between both personal and property crime and customary socioeconomic predic…
The Distribution of Benefits in an Urban Environment: Parks and Libraries in Houston
The research reported here examines the neighborhood distribution of park and library services in Houston. The analysis reveals that inequalities in distribution on the basis of race and wealth are dispersed rather than cumulative. The distribution of park acreage and facilities is equal while the location pattern is skewed in the direction of low income neighborhoods. The distribution of library resources favors upper income neighbor hoods, whil…
Citizen Demand and Bureaucratic Response: Direct Dialing Democracy in a Major American City
The Distribution of Urban Police Services
The Urban Bureaucracy and the Chicago Political Machine: Who Gets What and the Limits to Political Control
It has long been assumed that urban political machines trade services for votes. However, this study of Chicago found no evidence to suggest that the political machine uses vital public services to reward loyal supporters and to punish enemies. With few exceptions, distribution patterns are a function of past decisions, population shifts, technological changes, and reliance upon technical-rational criteria and professional values. The urban burea…
Citizen Demands and Urban Services: The Distribution of Bureaucratic Response in Chicago and Houston
Citizen contacts with public authorities are a major form of political participation in American cities. Is this demand-response relationship politicized? Do public officials view their control over responsiveness to citizen grievances as a political resource that can be used to reward and punish, or is responsiveness accomplished according to routinized procedures institutionalized in a set of bureaucratic decision rules? Relying upon a variety …
The Distribution of an Urban Public Service: The Changing Role of Race and Politics
The research on the distribution of urban public services has made a valuable contribution in enhancing our understanding of urban politics. However, this literature is criticized because the authors employed cross-sectional rather than longitudinal designs, relied upon single rather than multiple indicators of the distributional pattern, and emphasized bureaucratic rather than political explanations of distributional outcomes. In this article, t…
Blacks and Hispanics in Urban Politics
Are local political institutions responsive to the demands of racial minorities for a more equitable share of scarce public resources? Does an enhanced political presence improve black and Hispanic prospects in the struggle for public jobs? Based upon data for 1200 cities, my analysis reveals that while minority council members make a substantial contribution to employment success, minority mayors do not. For blacks, an interactive effect was als…
Public Employee Unions, Reformism, and Black Employment in 1,200 American Cities
This research was undertaken to examine the impact of political, economic, and institutional variables upon black employment outcomes in several hundred American cities. The results reveal that public employee unions exert a significant negative impact upon black job success in unreformed cities. However, public employee unions do not influence minority employment patterns in reformed communities. These findings strongly suggest that a critical r…
Does Politics Matter? A Time-Series Analysis of Minority Employment Patterns
Public sector jobs represent a major source of political and economic progress for racial minorities. However, wide variation exists across United States cities with respect to how effectively minorities have been able to lay claim to an equitable share of these jobs. Past research suggests that the election of a minority mayor plays a major role in successful employment strategies. Previous studies, however, have been limited by reliance on cros…
Political science (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Bureaucracy (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)