John Wanat
Biographic Data
| ID | 324933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Wanat |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Wanat |
| SIGNATURE | WANAT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Fuzziness and Bureaucracy
Among the sins laid at the doorstep of public bureaucracies is the mismatch of needs and benefits provided. The newspapers chronicle cases of destitute widows unable to get enough welfare money to sustain life because of technicalities as well as cases of legally obtained welfare Cadillacs. Bureaucrats and the bureaucratic establishment are held responsible for such mismatches with the implication that pettiness, ill-will, mean-spiritedness, poor…
The Dynamics of Presidential Popularity Shifts
This article analyzes shifts in public opinion on presidential approval surrounding certain salient international events. It estimates the relative size of approvers, disapprovers, and neutral respondents in Gallup polls who shifted to other responses in polls before and after the events. This is done by analyzing all possible nonnegative, integer solutions to the 3 × 3 tables representing the pre- to postevent change. By examining the relations …
Estimating the Degree of Mobilization and Conversion in the 1890s
The prime voting dynamic in the critical presidential election of 1896 was, according to the literature, the conversion of Democrats to the Republican banner. Unfortunately, mobilization of new voters has not been given much attention. To assess the role of mobilization, the vote shift possibilities from 1892 to 1896 were formalized, and all possible scenarios conforming to the aggregate data that characterized the electoral shift were analyzed b…
Most Possible Estimates and Maximum Likelihood Estimates
Testing for independence in two-way contingency tables [ILLEGIBLE][ILLEGIBLE] using a chi-square test that measures the goodness of fit between the observed data and the expected values. This article examines the expected values normally employed in such analyses. It first notes that the usually derived expected values are based on assumptions about the distributional form of an underlying probability density function that may not always be well-…
Comment on Ostrom (Vol. 72, September 1978, 941–57)
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"Budgeting and the "People's Reform
Introduction to Budgeting
Can Government Go Bankrupt
Voting Turnout & Religiosity
The Problem of Budgetary Overload
Although reforming the budget process is an attractive vehicle for achieving many ends, most reforms fall short because the budget process and budget personnel are overloaded by the demands of the reforms. The prospect for Najjar's proposal to use the budget mechanism to further the delimitative society is dim because the budgetary process is already burdened by uncontrollable spending, largely fixed by the values of budget-related personnel, and…
Personnel Measures of Budgetary Interaction
B ) UDGETARY studies typically use money to assess legislative-executive interactions. Although this appears to be perfectly reasonable, one must note that monetary measures are subject to forces outside the control of both agency and Congress and hence can yield a biased picture of legislative-executive relations. For one, money inflates, and keeping an agency's programs operating at the same level as the previous year's requires more money this…
Personnel Measures of Budgetary Interaction
The Relative Impact of State and National Forces
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Bureaucratic Politics in the Budget Formulation Arena
On Measuring Mexican Presidential Ideology Through Budgets
In recent studies by historians and political scientists there has been increasing attention paid to the question of executive impact on the budgetary process in Latin America. Wilkie's prize-winning research into the broad outlines of budgetary discretion in Revolutionary Mexico has both stimulated controversy and redoubled efforts to employ budgetary data productively in assessing the impact of who governs upon how people are governed
Bases of Budgetary Incrementalism
This essay analyses the explanatory power of Davis, Dempster, and Wildavsky's theory of budgetary incrementalism. By means of sensitivity testing, it demonstrates that inferences to "gaming" or strategic explanations of budgetary incrementalism are not warranted on the basis of correlational analysis.To explain budgetary incrementalism more satisfactorily, recourse is made to concepts and variables explicit in the vocabulary of the budget process…
Bases of Budgetary Incrementalism
This essay analyses the explanatory power of Davis, Dempster, and Wildavsky's theory of budgetary incrementalism. By means of sensitivity testing, it demonstrates that inferences to "gaming" or strategic explanations of budgetary incrementalism are not warranted on the basis of correlational analysis.To explain budgetary incrementalism more satisfactorily, recourse is made to concepts and variables explicit in the vocabulary of the budget process…
Voting Turnout & Religiosity
Estimating the Degree of Mobilization and Conversion in the 1890s
The prime voting dynamic in the critical presidential election of 1896 was, according to the literature, the conversion of Democrats to the Republican banner. Unfortunately, mobilization of new voters has not been given much attention. To assess the role of mobilization, the vote shift possibilities from 1892 to 1896 were formalized, and all possible scenarios conforming to the aggregate data that characterized the electoral shift were analyzed b…
Personnel Measures of Budgetary Interaction
Most Possible Estimates and Maximum Likelihood Estimates
Testing for independence in two-way contingency tables [ILLEGIBLE][ILLEGIBLE] using a chi-square test that measures the goodness of fit between the observed data and the expected values. This article examines the expected values normally employed in such analyses. It first notes that the usually derived expected values are based on assumptions about the distributional form of an underlying probability density function that may not always be well-…
The Relative Impact of State and National Forces
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
Bureaucratic Politics in the Budget Formulation Arena
Bases of Budgetary Incrementalism
This essay analyses the explanatory power of Davis, Dempster, and Wildavsky's theory of budgetary incrementalism. By means of sensitivity testing, it demonstrates that inferences to "gaming" or strategic explanations of budgetary incrementalism are not warranted on the basis of correlational analysis.To explain budgetary incrementalism more satisfactorily, recourse is made to concepts and variables explicit in the vocabulary of the budget process…
Bureaucratic Politics in the Budget Formulation Arena
On Measuring Mexican Presidential Ideology Through Budgets
In recent studies by historians and political scientists there has been increasing attention paid to the question of executive impact on the budgetary process in Latin America. Wilkie's prize-winning research into the broad outlines of budgetary discretion in Revolutionary Mexico has both stimulated controversy and redoubled efforts to employ budgetary data productively in assessing the impact of who governs upon how people are governed
Personnel Measures of Budgetary Interaction
B ) UDGETARY studies typically use money to assess legislative-executive interactions. Although this appears to be perfectly reasonable, one must note that monetary measures are subject to forces outside the control of both agency and Congress and hence can yield a biased picture of legislative-executive relations. For one, money inflates, and keeping an agency's programs operating at the same level as the previous year's requires more money this…
Personnel Measures of Budgetary Interaction
The Relative Impact of State and National Forces
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
The Problem of Budgetary Overload
Although reforming the budget process is an attractive vehicle for achieving many ends, most reforms fall short because the budget process and budget personnel are overloaded by the demands of the reforms. The prospect for Najjar's proposal to use the budget mechanism to further the delimitative society is dim because the budgetary process is already burdened by uncontrollable spending, largely fixed by the values of budget-related personnel, and…
Introduction to Budgeting
Can Government Go Bankrupt
Voting Turnout & Religiosity
Comment on Ostrom (Vol. 72, September 1978, 941–57)
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.
"Budgeting and the "People's Reform
The Dynamics of Presidential Popularity Shifts
This article analyzes shifts in public opinion on presidential approval surrounding certain salient international events. It estimates the relative size of approvers, disapprovers, and neutral respondents in Gallup polls who shifted to other responses in polls before and after the events. This is done by analyzing all possible nonnegative, integer solutions to the 3 × 3 tables representing the pre- to postevent change. By examining the relations …
Estimating the Degree of Mobilization and Conversion in the 1890s
The prime voting dynamic in the critical presidential election of 1896 was, according to the literature, the conversion of Democrats to the Republican banner. Unfortunately, mobilization of new voters has not been given much attention. To assess the role of mobilization, the vote shift possibilities from 1892 to 1896 were formalized, and all possible scenarios conforming to the aggregate data that characterized the electoral shift were analyzed b…
Most Possible Estimates and Maximum Likelihood Estimates
Testing for independence in two-way contingency tables [ILLEGIBLE][ILLEGIBLE] using a chi-square test that measures the goodness of fit between the observed data and the expected values. This article examines the expected values normally employed in such analyses. It first notes that the usually derived expected values are based on assumptions about the distributional form of an underlying probability density function that may not always be well-…
Fuzziness and Bureaucracy
Among the sins laid at the doorstep of public bureaucracies is the mismatch of needs and benefits provided. The newspapers chronicle cases of destitute widows unable to get enough welfare money to sustain life because of technicalities as well as cases of legally obtained welfare Cadillacs. Bureaucrats and the bureaucratic establishment are held responsible for such mismatches with the implication that pettiness, ill-will, mean-spiritedness, poor…
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