John P Pelissero
Biographic Data
| ID | 328207 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John P Pelissero |
| GIVEN NAMES | John P |
| FAMILY NAME | Pelissero |
| SIGNATURE | PELISSERO J P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 194 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Urban Managers and Public Policy
Here the authors examine the policy behavior of urban administrators in the area of reinventing government. They argue that managers in places with institutions that tend to produce conflict will be less active in policy making than their counterparts in less conflict-prone environments. They test their model with data from a survey of urban administrators in cities with populations greater than 10,000. The findings indicate that managers are sig…
What Influences City Council Adoption and Support for Reinventing Government? Environmental or Institutional Factors
What influences the degree to which city councils support reinventing government (REGO)? Controlling for environmental factors that are likely to shape council policy adoption as well as the tenure of the chief administrator, the findings of this study underscore that the type of representation system is most consistently related to opposition to REGO. In addition, the economic health of the city and the tenure of the chief administrator are posi…
A Response to Hogan and Simpson
Fund-Raising Coalitions in Mayoral Campaigns
Electoral coalitions have two parts: the voter coalition and the fund-raising coalition. The voter coalition consists of the individuals and groups that support a candidate through mobilization and voting, whereas the fund-raising coalition supports a candidate through campaign donations. The authors explore the less-studied role of the fund-raising coalition by examining data on the campaigns of Mayors Harold Washington and Richard M. Daley in C…
Asian-Americans, Political Organizations, and Participation in Chicago Electoral Precincts
Precinct-level data for voter registration and turnout in Chicago elections are used to assess the impact of the Asian population and party organization on political participation during the 1990s. Controlling for the effects of newer immigration, mobility, and socioeconomic status, the authors learn that larger Asian-American populations are associated with higher voter registration. Voter turnout is negatively affected in areas of higher Asian …
Does Political Incorporation Matter
The authors assess the effects of minority political incorporation in large cities. An interrupted time-series research design is used to determine whether the election of a city’s first minority mayor has any short-term or long-term impact on fiscal policies. The authors examined six cities that elected black or Latino mayors and six cities with white mayors from 1972 to 1992. In general, they find that minority political incorporation did not s…
City Council Legislative Committees and Policy-making in Large United States Cities
Theory: Legislative committees are extensive and integral to the structure and policy-making functions of Congress and state legislatures.Scant research exists on current roles of committees of city councils.Hypotheses: We hypothesize that city council committee systems are less common and not as vital to policy-making than is true of other legislative bodies.Contrary to much urban research, we further expect that city government structure, not t…
Experts and Politicians
Local Government Fiscal Burden in Nonmetropolitan America1
Rising fiscal pressure on local governments in rural areas of the United States is documented in this study. The level of fiscal burden on taxpayers to support local governments in nonmetropolitan areas is found to be higher than that in metropolitan areas between 1977 and 1987. Using a model from the urban fiscal literature, the level of fiscal burden in nonmetropolitan areas is found to be influenced by a combination of demographic, socioeconom…
Ethnic Political Power in a Machine City
Machine politics in Chicago has been described as a successful example of exchange theory in which political party members received benefits in return for loyalty to the party. In 1988, Erie rejected the rainbow theory of machine politics, arguing that the Irish received the lion's share of political benefits while other white-ethnic groups, such as Poles, were given limited and often symbolic rewards. These authors show that Chicago's Poles were…
A Brief Look at 50+ Years of Scholarly Development in the Midwest Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association News
The theoretical and research foundations of political science that stem from work in other disciplines are discussed by four political scientists who have developed much of their own work from other social sciences. The program is moderated by Donald Stokes (Princeton) and includes Russell Hardin (Chicago), David O. Sears (UCLA), and John Sprague (Washington University, St. Louis). This program is the Plenary Session of the 1991 Midwest Political…
Targeting Intergovernmental Aid to Local Schools
tudents of public policy have long been interested in redistribu- tion.Especially in a political system permitting some degree of decentralization, the question often becomes which level of gov- ernment should assist the poor (Ladd and Doolittle 1982).Economic theory favors the national government, with its broader geographic scope and more progressive tax system.Yet many argue that the states are closer to local problems and thus best suited to …
Urban Regimes, Sports Stadiums, and the Politics of Economic Development Agendas in Chicago
Sports issues have increasingly become prominent items on the urban policy agenda. Most demands for sports-related policies have been woven into the general fabric of economic development in the community. in this article, the authors examine the issues surrounding sports stadium development in Chicago from 1985-90. An urban regime framework, based on the notion of governing coalitions, is used to analyze the incorporation of stadiums into Chicag…
Interstate Variation in the Allocation of State Aid To Local Schools
Journal Article Interstate Variation in the Allocation of State Aid To Local Schools Get access David R. Morgan, David R. Morgan University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John P. Pelissero John P. Pelissero Loyola University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 19, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 113–126, htt…
Decentralization, Redistribution and Community Development
The proper balance between federal initiative and state control in policy administration has always been a volatile issue in American politics. The Reagan admin istration is actively pursuing a program that it hopes will reduce the size and scope of the national government, decentralize program and policy administration, and revitalize state government. I An initial step toward decentralization came with the Omnibus Budget Recon ciliation Act o…
Targeting State Highway Aid to Needy Cities
Studies of state aid targeting to urban needs by Morgan and England (1984), Stein (1981), and Dye and Hurley (1978) have focused on aggregate stale aid to cities. This paper examines the relative responsiveness of a functional category of state aid, highway aid to cities. Analysis of state residual highway aid over a 21-year period shows that (1) highway aid was generally not targeted to needs in a pre-urban crisis period, (2) somewhat better tar…
State Revenue Sharing WTTH Large Cfties
State Aid and City Needs
Dye and Hurley's (1978) conclusion that the states are somewhat more responsive to city needs than the federal government was questioned on methodological grounds by Ward (1981). The point of contention was Dye and Hurley's use of per capita measures of state/federal aid and urban needs. The research reported here examines state aid to the forty-seven largest U.S. cities, and employs residual measures of state aid allocations before and during th…
Urban Policy
An interrupted time-series quasi-experiment is employed to test the basic hypothesis that reformed cities (with city manager, at-large elections, and nonpartisan ballots) tax and spend less than unreformed communities. Eleven cities with populations of 25,000 and above which significantly changed their political structure between 1948 and 1973 are compared with 11 matched control cities that made no changes. We found that over an 11-year period, …
Urban Planning
Urban Policy
An interrupted time-series quasi-experiment is employed to test the basic hypothesis that reformed cities (with city manager, at-large elections, and nonpartisan ballots) tax and spend less than unreformed communities. Eleven cities with populations of 25,000 and above which significantly changed their political structure between 1948 and 1973 are compared with 11 matched control cities that made no changes. We found that over an 11-year period, …
City Council Legislative Committees and Policy-making in Large United States Cities
Theory: Legislative committees are extensive and integral to the structure and policy-making functions of Congress and state legislatures.Scant research exists on current roles of committees of city councils.Hypotheses: We hypothesize that city council committee systems are less common and not as vital to policy-making than is true of other legislative bodies.Contrary to much urban research, we further expect that city government structure, not t…
Does Political Incorporation Matter
The authors assess the effects of minority political incorporation in large cities. An interrupted time-series research design is used to determine whether the election of a city’s first minority mayor has any short-term or long-term impact on fiscal policies. The authors examined six cities that elected black or Latino mayors and six cities with white mayors from 1972 to 1992. In general, they find that minority political incorporation did not s…
Local Government Fiscal Burden in Nonmetropolitan America1
Rising fiscal pressure on local governments in rural areas of the United States is documented in this study. The level of fiscal burden on taxpayers to support local governments in nonmetropolitan areas is found to be higher than that in metropolitan areas between 1977 and 1987. Using a model from the urban fiscal literature, the level of fiscal burden in nonmetropolitan areas is found to be influenced by a combination of demographic, socioeconom…
Fund-Raising Coalitions in Mayoral Campaigns
Electoral coalitions have two parts: the voter coalition and the fund-raising coalition. The voter coalition consists of the individuals and groups that support a candidate through mobilization and voting, whereas the fund-raising coalition supports a candidate through campaign donations. The authors explore the less-studied role of the fund-raising coalition by examining data on the campaigns of Mayors Harold Washington and Richard M. Daley in C…
Urban Managers and Public Policy
Here the authors examine the policy behavior of urban administrators in the area of reinventing government. They argue that managers in places with institutions that tend to produce conflict will be less active in policy making than their counterparts in less conflict-prone environments. They test their model with data from a survey of urban administrators in cities with populations greater than 10,000. The findings indicate that managers are sig…
Asian-Americans, Political Organizations, and Participation in Chicago Electoral Precincts
Precinct-level data for voter registration and turnout in Chicago elections are used to assess the impact of the Asian population and party organization on political participation during the 1990s. Controlling for the effects of newer immigration, mobility, and socioeconomic status, the authors learn that larger Asian-American populations are associated with higher voter registration. Voter turnout is negatively affected in areas of higher Asian …
Urban Regimes, Sports Stadiums, and the Politics of Economic Development Agendas in Chicago
Sports issues have increasingly become prominent items on the urban policy agenda. Most demands for sports-related policies have been woven into the general fabric of economic development in the community. in this article, the authors examine the issues surrounding sports stadium development in Chicago from 1985-90. An urban regime framework, based on the notion of governing coalitions, is used to analyze the incorporation of stadiums into Chicag…
State Aid and City Needs
Dye and Hurley's (1978) conclusion that the states are somewhat more responsive to city needs than the federal government was questioned on methodological grounds by Ward (1981). The point of contention was Dye and Hurley's use of per capita measures of state/federal aid and urban needs. The research reported here examines state aid to the forty-seven largest U.S. cities, and employs residual measures of state aid allocations before and during th…
Targeting Intergovernmental Aid to Local Schools
tudents of public policy have long been interested in redistribu- tion.Especially in a political system permitting some degree of decentralization, the question often becomes which level of gov- ernment should assist the poor (Ladd and Doolittle 1982).Economic theory favors the national government, with its broader geographic scope and more progressive tax system.Yet many argue that the states are closer to local problems and thus best suited to …
Interstate Variation in the Allocation of State Aid To Local Schools
Journal Article Interstate Variation in the Allocation of State Aid To Local Schools Get access David R. Morgan, David R. Morgan University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John P. Pelissero John P. Pelissero Loyola University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 19, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 113–126, htt…
State Revenue Sharing WTTH Large Cfties
Urban Planning
Urban Policy
An interrupted time-series quasi-experiment is employed to test the basic hypothesis that reformed cities (with city manager, at-large elections, and nonpartisan ballots) tax and spend less than unreformed communities. Eleven cities with populations of 25,000 and above which significantly changed their political structure between 1948 and 1973 are compared with 11 matched control cities that made no changes. We found that over an 11-year period, …
State Aid and City Needs
Dye and Hurley's (1978) conclusion that the states are somewhat more responsive to city needs than the federal government was questioned on methodological grounds by Ward (1981). The point of contention was Dye and Hurley's use of per capita measures of state/federal aid and urban needs. The research reported here examines state aid to the forty-seven largest U.S. cities, and employs residual measures of state aid allocations before and during th…
Targeting State Highway Aid to Needy Cities
Studies of state aid targeting to urban needs by Morgan and England (1984), Stein (1981), and Dye and Hurley (1978) have focused on aggregate stale aid to cities. This paper examines the relative responsiveness of a functional category of state aid, highway aid to cities. Analysis of state residual highway aid over a 21-year period shows that (1) highway aid was generally not targeted to needs in a pre-urban crisis period, (2) somewhat better tar…
State Revenue Sharing WTTH Large Cfties
Decentralization, Redistribution and Community Development
The proper balance between federal initiative and state control in policy administration has always been a volatile issue in American politics. The Reagan admin istration is actively pursuing a program that it hopes will reduce the size and scope of the national government, decentralize program and policy administration, and revitalize state government. I An initial step toward decentralization came with the Omnibus Budget Recon ciliation Act o…
Interstate Variation in the Allocation of State Aid To Local Schools
Journal Article Interstate Variation in the Allocation of State Aid To Local Schools Get access David R. Morgan, David R. Morgan University of Oklahoma Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John P. Pelissero John P. Pelissero Loyola University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 19, Issue 2, Spring 1989, Pages 113–126, htt…
Urban Regimes, Sports Stadiums, and the Politics of Economic Development Agendas in Chicago
Sports issues have increasingly become prominent items on the urban policy agenda. Most demands for sports-related policies have been woven into the general fabric of economic development in the community. in this article, the authors examine the issues surrounding sports stadium development in Chicago from 1985-90. An urban regime framework, based on the notion of governing coalitions, is used to analyze the incorporation of stadiums into Chicag…
A Brief Look at 50+ Years of Scholarly Development in the Midwest Political Science Association
Midwest Political Science Association News
The theoretical and research foundations of political science that stem from work in other disciplines are discussed by four political scientists who have developed much of their own work from other social sciences. The program is moderated by Donald Stokes (Princeton) and includes Russell Hardin (Chicago), David O. Sears (UCLA), and John Sprague (Washington University, St. Louis). This program is the Plenary Session of the 1991 Midwest Political…
Targeting Intergovernmental Aid to Local Schools
tudents of public policy have long been interested in redistribu- tion.Especially in a political system permitting some degree of decentralization, the question often becomes which level of gov- ernment should assist the poor (Ladd and Doolittle 1982).Economic theory favors the national government, with its broader geographic scope and more progressive tax system.Yet many argue that the states are closer to local problems and thus best suited to …
Ethnic Political Power in a Machine City
Machine politics in Chicago has been described as a successful example of exchange theory in which political party members received benefits in return for loyalty to the party. In 1988, Erie rejected the rainbow theory of machine politics, arguing that the Irish received the lion's share of political benefits while other white-ethnic groups, such as Poles, were given limited and often symbolic rewards. These authors show that Chicago's Poles were…
Local Government Fiscal Burden in Nonmetropolitan America1
Rising fiscal pressure on local governments in rural areas of the United States is documented in this study. The level of fiscal burden on taxpayers to support local governments in nonmetropolitan areas is found to be higher than that in metropolitan areas between 1977 and 1987. Using a model from the urban fiscal literature, the level of fiscal burden in nonmetropolitan areas is found to be influenced by a combination of demographic, socioeconom…
Experts and Politicians
City Council Legislative Committees and Policy-making in Large United States Cities
Theory: Legislative committees are extensive and integral to the structure and policy-making functions of Congress and state legislatures.Scant research exists on current roles of committees of city councils.Hypotheses: We hypothesize that city council committee systems are less common and not as vital to policy-making than is true of other legislative bodies.Contrary to much urban research, we further expect that city government structure, not t…
Asian-Americans, Political Organizations, and Participation in Chicago Electoral Precincts
Precinct-level data for voter registration and turnout in Chicago elections are used to assess the impact of the Asian population and party organization on political participation during the 1990s. Controlling for the effects of newer immigration, mobility, and socioeconomic status, the authors learn that larger Asian-American populations are associated with higher voter registration. Voter turnout is negatively affected in areas of higher Asian …
Does Political Incorporation Matter
The authors assess the effects of minority political incorporation in large cities. An interrupted time-series research design is used to determine whether the election of a city’s first minority mayor has any short-term or long-term impact on fiscal policies. The authors examined six cities that elected black or Latino mayors and six cities with white mayors from 1972 to 1992. In general, they find that minority political incorporation did not s…
A Response to Hogan and Simpson
Fund-Raising Coalitions in Mayoral Campaigns
Electoral coalitions have two parts: the voter coalition and the fund-raising coalition. The voter coalition consists of the individuals and groups that support a candidate through mobilization and voting, whereas the fund-raising coalition supports a candidate through campaign donations. The authors explore the less-studied role of the fund-raising coalition by examining data on the campaigns of Mayors Harold Washington and Richard M. Daley in C…
Urban Managers and Public Policy
Here the authors examine the policy behavior of urban administrators in the area of reinventing government. They argue that managers in places with institutions that tend to produce conflict will be less active in policy making than their counterparts in less conflict-prone environments. They test their model with data from a survey of urban administrators in cities with populations greater than 10,000. The findings indicate that managers are sig…
What Influences City Council Adoption and Support for Reinventing Government? Environmental or Institutional Factors
What influences the degree to which city councils support reinventing government (REGO)? Controlling for environmental factors that are likely to shape council policy adoption as well as the tenure of the chief administrator, the findings of this study underscore that the type of representation system is most consistently related to opposition to REGO. In addition, the economic health of the city and the tenure of the chief administrator are posi…
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