Robert D Mckinlay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3598375 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert D Mckinlay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckinlay |
| SIGNATURE | MCKINLAY R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 402 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Does politics matter
Nomination: Comparative politics matters by Geoffrey K. Roberts, p.99 Reflections: Does politics matter? Increasing complexity and renewed challenges by Frank Castles & Robert D. McKinlay, p.102
Does politics matter
The overriding conclusion of the majority of recent policy studies is that political factors play an insignificant role in influencing policy outputs. We establish a number of models, comprising both economic and political variables, which are used in an attempt to indicate the relative salience of rival determinants of public welfare commitment in advanced democratic states. Though we cannot dismiss some influence of economic factors, the main f…
Third World Military Expenditure: Determinants and Implications
Military expenditure - a descriptive profile research design military expenditure and power capabilities military expenditure and budgetary behaviour military expenditure and international interactions military expenditure and domestic conflict military expenditure and interstate conflict military expenditure and national security
Global Problems and World Order
Do Critics Always Matter? Or, A Comedy of Errors
On one level, it is something of a pleasure when one's colleagues take sufficient interest in a paper to write a rejoinder. Furthermore, Roweth et al. are to be complimented on writing their rejoinder in a systematic manner. It seems only reasonable therefore, that we should respond to each of their charges, which they label our ‘shortcomings’, by following their format
Does Politics Matter: An Analysis of the Public Welfare Commitment in Advanced Democratic States
The overriding conclusion of the majority of recent policy studies is that political factors play an insignificant role in influencing policy outputs. We establish a number of models, comprising both economic and political variables, which are used in an attempt to indicate the relative salience of rival determinants of public welfare commitment in advanced democratic states. Though we cannot dismiss some influence of economic factors, the main f…
The Aid Relationship: A Foreign Policy Model and Interpretation of the Distributions of Official Bilateral Economic Aid of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, 1960–1970
Public Welfare Provision, Scandinavia, and the Sheer Futility of the Sociological Approach to Politics
In the last two decades, the prevailing orthodoxy in comparative studies has been the sociological view that public policy outcomes are primarily a reflection of what can loosely be described as ‘environmental’ factors: the demographic structure of the population, the incremental logic of policy programmes, and, most important of all, the level of economic development. This paper has two main objectives: first, to demonstrate that the sociologica…
The German Aid Relationship: A Test of the Recipient Need and the Donor Interest Models of the Distribution of German Bilateral Aid 1961–70
There is currently a high degree of confusion about the role of aid and its foreign policy implications. This paper attempts to resolve some of this confusion by making a cross‐national, longitudinal analysis of the distribution of West German aid for each of the years 1961–70. Two basic models of allocation, reflecting different basic aid utilities, are tested. One suggests that aid is allocated according to the dictates of recipient need and re…
The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1977
In an earlier article in this Journal (‘The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1973’, V (1975), 363–83) we argued that in elections generally the critical concern of political party leaders is not how many votes they may amass. Instead, they need to be concerned with how many votes of those they receive they are actually able to use to elect candidates. It matters little if party A wins Constituency 1 by thousands of …
A Foreign-Policy Model of the Distribution of British Bilateral Aid, 1960–70
As a consequence of Truman's Point Four Program of 1949, the provision of economic assistance to independent low-income countries became the official policy of the United States. In the early and mid-1950s economic development assistance, though growing, received relatively little attention as the Korean war turned the USA's foreign aid in the direction of military assistance. However, by the start of the 1960s, the transfer of economic assistanc…
The French Aid Relationship: A Foreign Policy Model of the Distribution of French Bilateral Aid, 1964-70
A Foreign Policy Model of U.S. Bilateral Aid Allocation
Two views, founded on divergent rationales, have been used to explain the allocation of official bilateral aid. One view explains the allocation of aid in terms of the humanitarian needs of the recipient, the other in terms of the foreign policy interests of the donor. Although the foreign policy view is now clearly dominant, it has not been developed systematically. This paper initially develops an analytic foreign policy model of aid allocation…
The Economic Performance of Military Regimes: A Cross-National Aggregate Study
The military regime has now become a common phenomenon throughout the world. Research on the military in low-income systems used to focus on the military coup rather than on the military regime, but in recent years this imbalance has lessened. Moreover, many of the old ‘standard findings’ about military regimes have come to be rejected. It is fitting that they should have been since they tended to be the products more of stereotyping and inadequa…
Performance and Instability in Military and Nonmilitary Regime Systems
The analysis of military regimes, as opposed to military coups, has attracted comparatively little attention. This paper examines whether the political, military, and economic performance of systems which have experienced a military regime differs from the performance of systems which have not. The comparison between the performance of these two types of system is then used to examine the validity of the occurrence of a military regime as an indi…
The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1973
In the 1969 Irish general election, the outgoing government party, Fianna Fail, was once again returned with a majority of seats in the Dail Eireann; it had been in power since 1957. All but one of the remaining seats were distributed between Fine Gael and Labour, which fought the election as separate parties. In 1973, Fine Gael and Labour agreed to form a coalition to fight the coming election and won a majority despite the fact that Fianna Fail…
A Foreign Policy Model of U.S. Bilateral Aid Allocation
Two views, founded on divergent rationales, have been used to explain the allocation of official bilateral aid. One view explains the allocation of aid in terms of the humanitarian needs of the recipient, the other in terms of the foreign policy interests of the donor. Although the foreign policy view is now clearly dominant, it has not been developed systematically. This paper initially develops an analytic foreign policy model of aid allocation…
Does Politics Matter: An Analysis of the Public Welfare Commitment in Advanced Democratic States
The overriding conclusion of the majority of recent policy studies is that political factors play an insignificant role in influencing policy outputs. We establish a number of models, comprising both economic and political variables, which are used in an attempt to indicate the relative salience of rival determinants of public welfare commitment in advanced democratic states. Though we cannot dismiss some influence of economic factors, the main f…
Public Welfare Provision, Scandinavia, and the Sheer Futility of the Sociological Approach to Politics
In the last two decades, the prevailing orthodoxy in comparative studies has been the sociological view that public policy outcomes are primarily a reflection of what can loosely be described as ‘environmental’ factors: the demographic structure of the population, the incremental logic of policy programmes, and, most important of all, the level of economic development. This paper has two main objectives: first, to demonstrate that the sociologica…
A Foreign-Policy Model of the Distribution of British Bilateral Aid, 1960–70
As a consequence of Truman's Point Four Program of 1949, the provision of economic assistance to independent low-income countries became the official policy of the United States. In the early and mid-1950s economic development assistance, though growing, received relatively little attention as the Korean war turned the USA's foreign aid in the direction of military assistance. However, by the start of the 1960s, the transfer of economic assistanc…
The Aid Relationship: A Foreign Policy Model and Interpretation of the Distributions of Official Bilateral Economic Aid of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, 1960–1970
Does politics matter
The overriding conclusion of the majority of recent policy studies is that political factors play an insignificant role in influencing policy outputs. We establish a number of models, comprising both economic and political variables, which are used in an attempt to indicate the relative salience of rival determinants of public welfare commitment in advanced democratic states. Though we cannot dismiss some influence of economic factors, the main f…
The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1973
In the 1969 Irish general election, the outgoing government party, Fianna Fail, was once again returned with a majority of seats in the Dail Eireann; it had been in power since 1957. All but one of the remaining seats were distributed between Fine Gael and Labour, which fought the election as separate parties. In 1973, Fine Gael and Labour agreed to form a coalition to fight the coming election and won a majority despite the fact that Fianna Fail…
Performance and Instability in Military and Nonmilitary Regime Systems
The analysis of military regimes, as opposed to military coups, has attracted comparatively little attention. This paper examines whether the political, military, and economic performance of systems which have experienced a military regime differs from the performance of systems which have not. The comparison between the performance of these two types of system is then used to examine the validity of the occurrence of a military regime as an indi…
The German Aid Relationship: A Test of the Recipient Need and the Donor Interest Models of the Distribution of German Bilateral Aid 1961–70
There is currently a high degree of confusion about the role of aid and its foreign policy implications. This paper attempts to resolve some of this confusion by making a cross‐national, longitudinal analysis of the distribution of West German aid for each of the years 1961–70. Two basic models of allocation, reflecting different basic aid utilities, are tested. One suggests that aid is allocated according to the dictates of recipient need and re…
Global Problems and World Order
The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1977
In an earlier article in this Journal (‘The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1973’, V (1975), 363–83) we argued that in elections generally the critical concern of political party leaders is not how many votes they may amass. Instead, they need to be concerned with how many votes of those they receive they are actually able to use to elect candidates. It matters little if party A wins Constituency 1 by thousands of …
Third World Military Expenditure: Determinants and Implications
Military expenditure - a descriptive profile research design military expenditure and power capabilities military expenditure and budgetary behaviour military expenditure and international interactions military expenditure and domestic conflict military expenditure and interstate conflict military expenditure and national security
The French Aid Relationship: A Foreign Policy Model of the Distribution of French Bilateral Aid, 1964-70
The Economic Performance of Military Regimes: A Cross-National Aggregate Study
The military regime has now become a common phenomenon throughout the world. Research on the military in low-income systems used to focus on the military coup rather than on the military regime, but in recent years this imbalance has lessened. Moreover, many of the old ‘standard findings’ about military regimes have come to be rejected. It is fitting that they should have been since they tended to be the products more of stereotyping and inadequa…
The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1973
In the 1969 Irish general election, the outgoing government party, Fianna Fail, was once again returned with a majority of seats in the Dail Eireann; it had been in power since 1957. All but one of the remaining seats were distributed between Fine Gael and Labour, which fought the election as separate parties. In 1973, Fine Gael and Labour agreed to form a coalition to fight the coming election and won a majority despite the fact that Fianna Fail…
The Economic Performance of Military Regimes: A Cross-National Aggregate Study
The military regime has now become a common phenomenon throughout the world. Research on the military in low-income systems used to focus on the military coup rather than on the military regime, but in recent years this imbalance has lessened. Moreover, many of the old ‘standard findings’ about military regimes have come to be rejected. It is fitting that they should have been since they tended to be the products more of stereotyping and inadequa…
Performance and Instability in Military and Nonmilitary Regime Systems
The analysis of military regimes, as opposed to military coups, has attracted comparatively little attention. This paper examines whether the political, military, and economic performance of systems which have experienced a military regime differs from the performance of systems which have not. The comparison between the performance of these two types of system is then used to examine the validity of the occurrence of a military regime as an indi…
A Foreign Policy Model of U.S. Bilateral Aid Allocation
Two views, founded on divergent rationales, have been used to explain the allocation of official bilateral aid. One view explains the allocation of aid in terms of the humanitarian needs of the recipient, the other in terms of the foreign policy interests of the donor. Although the foreign policy view is now clearly dominant, it has not been developed systematically. This paper initially develops an analytic foreign policy model of aid allocation…
The German Aid Relationship: A Test of the Recipient Need and the Donor Interest Models of the Distribution of German Bilateral Aid 1961–70
There is currently a high degree of confusion about the role of aid and its foreign policy implications. This paper attempts to resolve some of this confusion by making a cross‐national, longitudinal analysis of the distribution of West German aid for each of the years 1961–70. Two basic models of allocation, reflecting different basic aid utilities, are tested. One suggests that aid is allocated according to the dictates of recipient need and re…
The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1977
In an earlier article in this Journal (‘The Used Vote and Electoral Outcomes: The Irish General Election of 1973’, V (1975), 363–83) we argued that in elections generally the critical concern of political party leaders is not how many votes they may amass. Instead, they need to be concerned with how many votes of those they receive they are actually able to use to elect candidates. It matters little if party A wins Constituency 1 by thousands of …
A Foreign-Policy Model of the Distribution of British Bilateral Aid, 1960–70
As a consequence of Truman's Point Four Program of 1949, the provision of economic assistance to independent low-income countries became the official policy of the United States. In the early and mid-1950s economic development assistance, though growing, received relatively little attention as the Korean war turned the USA's foreign aid in the direction of military assistance. However, by the start of the 1960s, the transfer of economic assistanc…
The French Aid Relationship: A Foreign Policy Model of the Distribution of French Bilateral Aid, 1964-70
Does Politics Matter: An Analysis of the Public Welfare Commitment in Advanced Democratic States
The overriding conclusion of the majority of recent policy studies is that political factors play an insignificant role in influencing policy outputs. We establish a number of models, comprising both economic and political variables, which are used in an attempt to indicate the relative salience of rival determinants of public welfare commitment in advanced democratic states. Though we cannot dismiss some influence of economic factors, the main f…
The Aid Relationship: A Foreign Policy Model and Interpretation of the Distributions of Official Bilateral Economic Aid of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, 1960–1970
Public Welfare Provision, Scandinavia, and the Sheer Futility of the Sociological Approach to Politics
In the last two decades, the prevailing orthodoxy in comparative studies has been the sociological view that public policy outcomes are primarily a reflection of what can loosely be described as ‘environmental’ factors: the demographic structure of the population, the incremental logic of policy programmes, and, most important of all, the level of economic development. This paper has two main objectives: first, to demonstrate that the sociologica…
Do Critics Always Matter? Or, A Comedy of Errors
On one level, it is something of a pleasure when one's colleagues take sufficient interest in a paper to write a rejoinder. Furthermore, Roweth et al. are to be complimented on writing their rejoinder in a systematic manner. It seems only reasonable therefore, that we should respond to each of their charges, which they label our ‘shortcomings’, by following their format
Global Problems and World Order
Third World Military Expenditure: Determinants and Implications
Military expenditure - a descriptive profile research design military expenditure and power capabilities military expenditure and budgetary behaviour military expenditure and international interactions military expenditure and domestic conflict military expenditure and interstate conflict military expenditure and national security
Does politics matter
Nomination: Comparative politics matters by Geoffrey K. Roberts, p.99 Reflections: Does politics matter? Increasing complexity and renewed challenges by Frank Castles & Robert D. McKinlay, p.102
Does politics matter
The overriding conclusion of the majority of recent policy studies is that political factors play an insignificant role in influencing policy outputs. We establish a number of models, comprising both economic and political variables, which are used in an attempt to indicate the relative salience of rival determinants of public welfare commitment in advanced democratic states. Though we cannot dismiss some influence of economic factors, the main f…
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