David Mckay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3608515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Mckay |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Mckay |
| SIGNATURE | MCKAY D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7956-7733 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
On Serving God in Our Generation
How are Christians to serve Christ at this point in history? We approach the question from the perspective of faith in a sovereign God, not in pessimism or defeatism. While activity is required, God’s chief concern is with being rather than doing. We ask first, “Who are we?” Identity is not self-generated but given by God. Christians are Christlike people— redeemed, indwelt by the Holy Spirit, loving, and holy. They are also a covenant community—…
Developing British Political System: The 1990s
Banditry in West Java: 1869-1942
Banditry was rife around Batavia (modern Jakarta) during the late colonial period. Banditry in West Java identifies the bandits and describes both their working methods and their motives, which often went beyond simple self-enrichment. The author also explores the world of the victims of the robbers, mainly city-dwellers, who viewed them as the antithesis of civilization and made them into convenient subjects onto which respectable citizens proje…
Walruses Attack Spectacled Eiders Wintering in Pack Ice of the Bering Sea
We observed walruses (Odobenus rosmarus) pursuing spectacled eiders (Somateria fischeri) within pack ice of the Bering Sea, 70–90 km from the nearest land. We used both direct observations from a helicopter and a heligimbal camera system that can film animals from a helicopter at high altitudes. The eiders were in monospecific flocks of thousands of birds within large leads. The walruses apparently tried to catch the eiders from below; the eiders…
Economic logic or political logic? Economic theory, federal theory and EMU
The problems associated with the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact have inspired a number of economists to suggest recommendations for improvement and reform. The purpose of this paper is to place these recommendations in the context of federal theory and in particular to establish a link between policy choices deemed to be economically sustainable and those that may be politically sustainable. To facilitate this, the paper employs …
William Riker on federalism: Sometimes wrong but more right than anyone else
This article reviews the contribution made by William H. Riker to the study of federalism. It concludes that Riker's claim that federalism is always a result of a collective response to external or internal threats to dominant central and regional coalitions needs to be qualified to include economic and cultural threats. The EU and Australian examples demonstrate this. Riker was also mistaken about the precise origins of Indian federation, which …
Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions
Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions. By Mikhail Filippov, Peter C. Ordeshook, and Olga Shvetsova. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 392p. $75.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. This book is a highly ambitious attempt to provide a general theory on the self-sustainability of democratic federal systems of government. The authors' central hypothesis is that federal states can reach an equilibrium when both state- a…
Books reviewed
Global Economy, Global Justice: Theoretical and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism George F. DeMartino Routledge (2000), London, ISBN 0415224012. Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future Finn Tarp, ed. Routledge (2000), London, ISBN 0415233631. Evaluating Development Aid: Issues, Problems and Solutions B.E. Cracknell Sage (2000), London. ISBN 0761994033. The Third World in the Age of Globalisation: Requiem or Ne…
Policy Legitimacy and Institutional Design: Comparative Lessons for theEuropean Union
Research on the democratic deficit in the European Union (EU) tends to focus on general questions of institutional design rather than the link between institutions and specific policy responsibilities. This article argues that, following EMU, a high degree of fiscal centralization is not tenable given theabsence of EU‐wide citizen support for a greatly enhanced central role and European political parties operating in a genuine European legislatur…
The Political Sustainability of European Monetary Union
This article synthesizes a large body of work in applied economics on the likely effects of European Monetary Union with an established literature in political science on the political sustainability of intervention by central or federal authorities in the economies of diverse nations, states or regions. Three possible economic scenarios resulting from EMU are identified – fiscal centralization, monetary discipline and loose money. The greatly en…
On the Origins of Political Unions: The European Case
This paper attempts to explain why it was that the countries of the European Community came together to form a political union in the early 1990s. The explanations most often invoked to explain this process - those drawn from competing schools in international relations and federalism theory - are critiqued and an alternative perspective based on an adaptation of William Riker's work is offered. Riker argues that countries form unions only when f…
Campaigning as Governing: The 1996 US Presidential Elections
ON TUESDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 1996 BILL CLINTON WAS REelected President of the United States by a comfortable margin. In addition, the Republicans retained control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Although these results were generally unsurprising, the election was an important one for students of American electoral behaviour. In particular, the results were widely expected to cast new light on two distinctive strands of thought in t…
Presidents in Political Time: Recent Research on the American Presidency
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Urban Development and Civic Community: A Comparative Analysis
This article attempts to explain why it is that in spite of being exposed to similar economic and social forces, cities in Europe and the United States have followed distinctive patterns of development. In continental Europe core urban areas have remained relatively resilient compared with equivalent areas in Britain and the United States. While economic and demographic factors are important explanatory factors, they cannot account for all of the…
Divided and Governed? Recent Research on Divided Government in the United States
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Policy Making in the White House: The Best Books on the Presidency in 1989
Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the American State, 1964-1987
Journal Article Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the American State, 1964–1987. By David McKay. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xii + 223 pp. $34.50.) Get access Erwin C. Hargrove Erwin C. Hargrove Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1431–1432, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078400 Published: 01 March 1…
Is European political science inferior to or different from American political science
Political Science and the Presidency
Presidential Strategy and the Veto Power: A Reappraisal
Journal Article Presidential Strategy and the Veto Power: A Reappraisal Get access David McKay David McKay DAVID McKAY is reader and chair of the department of government at the University of Essex. He is the author of a number of books on American and comparative government including most recently, American Politics and Society (2nd edition, 1989) and Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the American State, 1964-1987. Search for other wo…
Why is there a European Political Science
findings easily transcend national barriers and boundaries. A scientific breakthrough in physics or genetics established almost anywhere in the world will rapidly find its way into the leading American journals and into the everyday research agendas of scientists. It follows that in such disciplines, one professional standard really does exist, and in the non-Communist world, at least, something resembling an international marketplace has develop…
Opera in Colonial Boston
At a Large ROOM in BRATTLE STREET, formerly GREEN and WALKER'S Store. TO-MORROW (being FRIDAY) SEPTEMBER 29th 1769. Will be READ, THE BEGGARS OPERA, By a Person who has READ & SUNG, IN MOST OF THE GREAT TOWNS IN AMERICA, All the SONGS will be SUNG. He personates all the CHARACTERS, and enters into the different HUMOURS or PASSIONS, as they change from one to another throughout the OPERA. Tickets for Admission, will be delivered at the Bunch of Gr…
Theory and Practice in Public Policy: The Case of the New Federalism
President Reagan's New Federalism has been identified as part of a broad programme of radical reforms based on market-oriented economic and political theories. This article tests the extent to which the reforms introduced in 1981 and 1982 are compatible with these theories. The New Federalism is shown to have no obvious rationale based on the achievement of economic efficiency. Increased accountability, improved government responsiveness to the p…
Data Analysis and the Social Sciences
Industrial Policy and Non-policy in the United States
In the context of declining relative output and productivity there have been increasing calls for the American government to play a greater role in industrial policy in recent years. Traditionally, however, US government intervention has been ad hoc and reactive rather than planned and strategic. Regulation policy has rarely been linked to economic growth, and most recently has evolved in a policy context separate from and largely antagonistic to…
The Political Sustainability of European Monetary Union
This article synthesizes a large body of work in applied economics on the likely effects of European Monetary Union with an established literature in political science on the political sustainability of intervention by central or federal authorities in the economies of diverse nations, states or regions. Three possible economic scenarios resulting from EMU are identified – fiscal centralization, monetary discipline and loose money. The greatly en…
Economic logic or political logic? Economic theory, federal theory and EMU
The problems associated with the implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact have inspired a number of economists to suggest recommendations for improvement and reform. The purpose of this paper is to place these recommendations in the context of federal theory and in particular to establish a link between policy choices deemed to be economically sustainable and those that may be politically sustainable. To facilitate this, the paper employs …
Foundations of Sociology
William Riker on federalism: Sometimes wrong but more right than anyone else
This article reviews the contribution made by William H. Riker to the study of federalism. It concludes that Riker's claim that federalism is always a result of a collective response to external or internal threats to dominant central and regional coalitions needs to be qualified to include economic and cultural threats. The EU and Australian examples demonstrate this. Riker was also mistaken about the precise origins of Indian federation, which …
Divided and Governed? Recent Research on Divided Government in the United States
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
Is European political science inferior to or different from American political science
Policy Legitimacy and Institutional Design: Comparative Lessons for theEuropean Union
Research on the democratic deficit in the European Union (EU) tends to focus on general questions of institutional design rather than the link between institutions and specific policy responsibilities. This article argues that, following EMU, a high degree of fiscal centralization is not tenable given theabsence of EU‐wide citizen support for a greatly enhanced central role and European political parties operating in a genuine European legislatur…
Confusion and Reality in Public Policy: The Case of the British Urban Programme
The paper concentrates on the realization of an inner city or urban problem in British politics in the mid-1960s. Rejecting the conventional explanation of the resultant ‘urban programme’ as solely the consequence of Labour reactions to Enoch Powell's ‘rivers of blood’ speech in 1968, the paper assesses the utility of a number of explanations for the gestation and ultimate shape of this new policy direction. Interest-group, elite and Marxist inte…
Urban Development and Civic Community: A Comparative Analysis
This article attempts to explain why it is that in spite of being exposed to similar economic and social forces, cities in Europe and the United States have followed distinctive patterns of development. In continental Europe core urban areas have remained relatively resilient compared with equivalent areas in Britain and the United States. While economic and demographic factors are important explanatory factors, they cannot account for all of the…
Presidential Strategy and the Veto Power: A Reappraisal
Journal Article Presidential Strategy and the Veto Power: A Reappraisal Get access David McKay David McKay DAVID McKAY is reader and chair of the department of government at the University of Essex. He is the author of a number of books on American and comparative government including most recently, American Politics and Society (2nd edition, 1989) and Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the American State, 1964-1987. Search for other wo…
Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions
Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions. By Mikhail Filippov, Peter C. Ordeshook, and Olga Shvetsova. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 392p. $75.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. This book is a highly ambitious attempt to provide a general theory on the self-sustainability of democratic federal systems of government. The authors' central hypothesis is that federal states can reach an equilibrium when both state- a…
On the Origins of Political Unions: The European Case
This paper attempts to explain why it was that the countries of the European Community came together to form a political union in the early 1990s. The explanations most often invoked to explain this process - those drawn from competing schools in international relations and federalism theory - are critiqued and an alternative perspective based on an adaptation of William Riker's work is offered. Riker argues that countries form unions only when f…
Why is there a European Political Science
findings easily transcend national barriers and boundaries. A scientific breakthrough in physics or genetics established almost anywhere in the world will rapidly find its way into the leading American journals and into the everyday research agendas of scientists. It follows that in such disciplines, one professional standard really does exist, and in the non-Communist world, at least, something resembling an international marketplace has develop…
Housing and Race
Foundations of Sociology
Race and Residence: The Concentration and Dispersal of Immigrants in London
Confusion and Reality in Public Policy: The Case of the British Urban Programme
The paper concentrates on the realization of an inner city or urban problem in British politics in the mid-1960s. Rejecting the conventional explanation of the resultant ‘urban programme’ as solely the consequence of Labour reactions to Enoch Powell's ‘rivers of blood’ speech in 1968, the paper assesses the utility of a number of explanations for the gestation and ultimate shape of this new policy direction. Interest-group, elite and Marxist inte…
Housing and Race
Industrial Policy and Non-policy in the United States
In the context of declining relative output and productivity there have been increasing calls for the American government to play a greater role in industrial policy in recent years. Traditionally, however, US government intervention has been ad hoc and reactive rather than planned and strategic. Regulation policy has rarely been linked to economic growth, and most recently has evolved in a policy context separate from and largely antagonistic to…
Industrial Policies in OECD Countries: An Overview
Since the financial economic crises of the early 1970s the debate about economic and industrial affairs has intensified everywhere with, in many countries,the focus of economic policy shifting from demand to supply side remedies. What is striking about the post-1974 pattern is the extent to which countries have diverged in economic performance. The results of attempts to explain these differences are contradictory both between and within academic…
Data Analysis and the Social Sciences
Opera in Colonial Boston
At a Large ROOM in BRATTLE STREET, formerly GREEN and WALKER'S Store. TO-MORROW (being FRIDAY) SEPTEMBER 29th 1769. Will be READ, THE BEGGARS OPERA, By a Person who has READ & SUNG, IN MOST OF THE GREAT TOWNS IN AMERICA, All the SONGS will be SUNG. He personates all the CHARACTERS, and enters into the different HUMOURS or PASSIONS, as they change from one to another throughout the OPERA. Tickets for Admission, will be delivered at the Bunch of Gr…
Theory and Practice in Public Policy: The Case of the New Federalism
President Reagan's New Federalism has been identified as part of a broad programme of radical reforms based on market-oriented economic and political theories. This article tests the extent to which the reforms introduced in 1981 and 1982 are compatible with these theories. The New Federalism is shown to have no obvious rationale based on the achievement of economic efficiency. Increased accountability, improved government responsiveness to the p…
Why is there a European Political Science
findings easily transcend national barriers and boundaries. A scientific breakthrough in physics or genetics established almost anywhere in the world will rapidly find its way into the leading American journals and into the everyday research agendas of scientists. It follows that in such disciplines, one professional standard really does exist, and in the non-Communist world, at least, something resembling an international marketplace has develop…
Presidential Strategy and the Veto Power: A Reappraisal
Journal Article Presidential Strategy and the Veto Power: A Reappraisal Get access David McKay David McKay DAVID McKAY is reader and chair of the department of government at the University of Essex. He is the author of a number of books on American and comparative government including most recently, American Politics and Society (2nd edition, 1989) and Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the American State, 1964-1987. Search for other wo…
Political Science and the Presidency
Policy Making in the White House: The Best Books on the Presidency in 1989
Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the American State, 1964-1987
Journal Article Domestic Policy and Ideology: Presidents and the American State, 1964–1987. By David McKay. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. xii + 223 pp. $34.50.) Get access Erwin C. Hargrove Erwin C. Hargrove Vanderbilt University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 4, March 1991, Pages 1431–1432, https://doi.org/10.2307/2078400 Published: 01 March 1…
Is European political science inferior to or different from American political science
Divided and Governed? Recent Research on Divided Government in the United States
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
Presidents in Political Time: Recent Research on the American Presidency
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
Urban Development and Civic Community: A Comparative Analysis
This article attempts to explain why it is that in spite of being exposed to similar economic and social forces, cities in Europe and the United States have followed distinctive patterns of development. In continental Europe core urban areas have remained relatively resilient compared with equivalent areas in Britain and the United States. While economic and demographic factors are important explanatory factors, they cannot account for all of the…
On the Origins of Political Unions: The European Case
This paper attempts to explain why it was that the countries of the European Community came together to form a political union in the early 1990s. The explanations most often invoked to explain this process - those drawn from competing schools in international relations and federalism theory - are critiqued and an alternative perspective based on an adaptation of William Riker's work is offered. Riker argues that countries form unions only when f…
Campaigning as Governing: The 1996 US Presidential Elections
ON TUESDAY, 5 NOVEMBER 1996 BILL CLINTON WAS REelected President of the United States by a comfortable margin. In addition, the Republicans retained control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Although these results were generally unsurprising, the election was an important one for students of American electoral behaviour. In particular, the results were widely expected to cast new light on two distinctive strands of thought in t…
The Political Sustainability of European Monetary Union
This article synthesizes a large body of work in applied economics on the likely effects of European Monetary Union with an established literature in political science on the political sustainability of intervention by central or federal authorities in the economies of diverse nations, states or regions. Three possible economic scenarios resulting from EMU are identified – fiscal centralization, monetary discipline and loose money. The greatly en…
Policy Legitimacy and Institutional Design: Comparative Lessons for theEuropean Union
Research on the democratic deficit in the European Union (EU) tends to focus on general questions of institutional design rather than the link between institutions and specific policy responsibilities. This article argues that, following EMU, a high degree of fiscal centralization is not tenable given theabsence of EU‐wide citizen support for a greatly enhanced central role and European political parties operating in a genuine European legislatur…
Books reviewed
Global Economy, Global Justice: Theoretical and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism George F. DeMartino Routledge (2000), London, ISBN 0415224012. Foreign Aid and Development: Lessons Learnt and Directions for the Future Finn Tarp, ed. Routledge (2000), London, ISBN 0415233631. Evaluating Development Aid: Issues, Problems and Solutions B.E. Cracknell Sage (2000), London. ISBN 0761994033. The Third World in the Age of Globalisation: Requiem or Ne…
William Riker on federalism: Sometimes wrong but more right than anyone else
This article reviews the contribution made by William H. Riker to the study of federalism. It concludes that Riker's claim that federalism is always a result of a collective response to external or internal threats to dominant central and regional coalitions needs to be qualified to include economic and cultural threats. The EU and Australian examples demonstrate this. Riker was also mistaken about the precise origins of Indian federation, which …
Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions
Designing Federalism: A Theory of Self-Sustainable Federal Institutions. By Mikhail Filippov, Peter C. Ordeshook, and Olga Shvetsova. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 392p. $75.00 cloth, $28.00 paper. This book is a highly ambitious attempt to provide a general theory on the self-sustainability of democratic federal systems of government. The authors' central hypothesis is that federal states can reach an equilibrium when both state- a…
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