Charles Pre
Biographic Data
| ID | 354280 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Pre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Pre |
| SIGNATURE | PRE C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Georgian Political Print and Democratic Institutions
At the beginning of the long reign of George III, a new mass media outlet for political expression surfaced in England: the colored political and social print. These prints were first carried as a sideline at stationers and bookstores, but from the middle 1770s on their popularity was great enough to justify setting up special print shops.The Georgian print after 1760 was different in more than color from those that had preceded it, though the us…
The Concept of Political Rationality
The authors seek to develop the concept of (instrumental) rationality into a useful analytic tool in political science. Analogous to the economists' hypothetical rational man, the political man seeks to maximize his power. They note the idiosyncratic limitations of assuming that all purposive behavior is rational by definition, and turn to the action with the larger payoff as the more rational strategy, but this situational definition of rational…
Decision Costs in Coalition Formation
Choices made in coalition formation are costly to participants, complex, and difficult to measure with precision because observable coalitions are multi-person, non-zero-sum games. At least eight decision costs are included in the process. The purpose of this paper is to identify them and to examine their usefulness in explaining coalition formation. Decisions include: (1) information costs, (2) responsibility costs, (3) intergame costs, (4) cost…
"Efficiency and Economy" Arguments for Metropolitan Reorganization
To what extent does suburban opinion regarding metropolitan organization, and especially proposals to annex suburbs to a central city, depend on considerations of efficiency and economy? Not as much as some civic reformers claim, says the writer of this paper, after a detailed public opinion study in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, metropolitan area
Measuring Malapportionment
In addition to the legal and political implications of the case, the United States Supreme Court's decision in Baker v. Carr brought sharply into public focus the technical problem of how to measure legislative malapportionment. The case itself exemplifies these various dimensions of the issue, for the majority opinion of Mr. Justice Clark and the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Harlan disagree not only regarding the law and the public policy o…
Malapportionment Remeasured
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Voting Statistics and Presidential Coattails
The coattail effect in presidential and congressional races was long supposed to show that the winning presidential candidate led his party to victory by adding votes to the ticket all along the line. The fact that the same party almost always won control of both houses of congress and usually also a majority of the governorships at stake at the time of a presidential victory made this a plausible theory.More recently, the sweeping nature of such…
Decision Costs in Coalition Formation
Choices made in coalition formation are costly to participants, complex, and difficult to measure with precision because observable coalitions are multi-person, non-zero-sum games. At least eight decision costs are included in the process. The purpose of this paper is to identify them and to examine their usefulness in explaining coalition formation. Decisions include: (1) information costs, (2) responsibility costs, (3) intergame costs, (4) cost…
Measuring Malapportionment
In addition to the legal and political implications of the case, the United States Supreme Court's decision in Baker v. Carr brought sharply into public focus the technical problem of how to measure legislative malapportionment. The case itself exemplifies these various dimensions of the issue, for the majority opinion of Mr. Justice Clark and the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Harlan disagree not only regarding the law and the public policy o…
Voting Statistics and Presidential Coattails
The coattail effect in presidential and congressional races was long supposed to show that the winning presidential candidate led his party to victory by adding votes to the ticket all along the line. The fact that the same party almost always won control of both houses of congress and usually also a majority of the governorships at stake at the time of a presidential victory made this a plausible theory.More recently, the sweeping nature of such…
The Concept of Political Rationality
The authors seek to develop the concept of (instrumental) rationality into a useful analytic tool in political science. Analogous to the economists' hypothetical rational man, the political man seeks to maximize his power. They note the idiosyncratic limitations of assuming that all purposive behavior is rational by definition, and turn to the action with the larger payoff as the more rational strategy, but this situational definition of rational…
Malapportionment Remeasured
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
"Efficiency and Economy" Arguments for Metropolitan Reorganization
To what extent does suburban opinion regarding metropolitan organization, and especially proposals to annex suburbs to a central city, depend on considerations of efficiency and economy? Not as much as some civic reformers claim, says the writer of this paper, after a detailed public opinion study in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, metropolitan area
Voting Statistics and Presidential Coattails
The coattail effect in presidential and congressional races was long supposed to show that the winning presidential candidate led his party to victory by adding votes to the ticket all along the line. The fact that the same party almost always won control of both houses of congress and usually also a majority of the governorships at stake at the time of a presidential victory made this a plausible theory.More recently, the sweeping nature of such…
"Efficiency and Economy" Arguments for Metropolitan Reorganization
To what extent does suburban opinion regarding metropolitan organization, and especially proposals to annex suburbs to a central city, depend on considerations of efficiency and economy? Not as much as some civic reformers claim, says the writer of this paper, after a detailed public opinion study in the Grand Rapids, Michigan, metropolitan area
Measuring Malapportionment
In addition to the legal and political implications of the case, the United States Supreme Court's decision in Baker v. Carr brought sharply into public focus the technical problem of how to measure legislative malapportionment. The case itself exemplifies these various dimensions of the issue, for the majority opinion of Mr. Justice Clark and the dissenting opinion of Mr. Justice Harlan disagree not only regarding the law and the public policy o…
Malapportionment Remeasured
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
Decision Costs in Coalition Formation
Choices made in coalition formation are costly to participants, complex, and difficult to measure with precision because observable coalitions are multi-person, non-zero-sum games. At least eight decision costs are included in the process. The purpose of this paper is to identify them and to examine their usefulness in explaining coalition formation. Decisions include: (1) information costs, (2) responsibility costs, (3) intergame costs, (4) cost…
The Concept of Political Rationality
The authors seek to develop the concept of (instrumental) rationality into a useful analytic tool in political science. Analogous to the economists' hypothetical rational man, the political man seeks to maximize his power. They note the idiosyncratic limitations of assuming that all purposive behavior is rational by definition, and turn to the action with the larger payoff as the more rational strategy, but this situational definition of rational…
The Georgian Political Print and Democratic Institutions
At the beginning of the long reign of George III, a new mass media outlet for political expression surfaced in England: the colored political and social print. These prints were first carried as a sideline at stationers and bookstores, but from the middle 1770s on their popularity was great enough to justify setting up special print shops.The Georgian print after 1760 was different in more than color from those that had preceded it, though the us…
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