Jeffrey A Hart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3626816 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey A Hart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hart |
| SIGNATURE | HART J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe
Great Britain, France, Germany, and Japan. Surveying the development of the steel, automobile, and semiconductor industries in each of these countries, Jeffrey A. Hart illuminates the role of national policy in a changing world.Hart describes the global structure of production and consumption in the five major capitalist countries and offers a rich comparative history of their industrial policymaking. He concludes that variations in statesocietal…
An American in China
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The Net Neutrality Debate in the United States
In 2006, a major telecommunications bill was held up because it did not include guarantees for something called “net neutrality.” Republicans strongly opposed these guarantees, while Democrats strongly favored them. The debate over net neutrality continued during the long campaign leading up to the 2008 presidential election. When the Obama Administration took office in 2009, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genac…
The Transition to Digital Television in the United States: The Endgame
The switching off of analogue television on 12 June 2009 and the delays that led up to it are the focus of the analysis here. All digital transitions are difficult but the US transition was successful in the end, in spite of a number of decisions and policies that made life confusing and overly complicated at one time or another for all concerned. The decision to delay the analogue switch off from 17 February to 12 June 2009 was one of the first …
Columbia Institute for Tele-Information conference on USA's digital TV transition
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education
Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines
Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines. By Mark Poster. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 393p. $79.95 Cloth, $22.95 paper. In this book, Mark Poster attempts to provide a philosophical framework for understanding the significance of the rise of computers, the Internet, and the other digital technologies. His argument is that the diffusion of these new technologies results in “complex couplings of humans an…
Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm
Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm. Edited by Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 367p. $65.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. This is an interesting collection of essays about what the editors call “digital formations.” A social formation is something in society that is emerging without a single founding event, in its early stages of development, and tending toward a variable structure…
The world is flat: A brief history of the twenty‐first century; Three billion new capitalists: The great shift of wealth and power to the east
Technology, Television, and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV
In the late 1980s and 1990s, the advanced industrial countries considered replacing the existing analogue television infrastructure with a new digital one. A key common feature to the debates over digital TV (DTV) in the United States, Western Europe and Japan was the eventual victory of the ideas of digitalism (the superiority of everything digital over everything analogue) and of digital convergence (the merging of computing, telecommunications…
Globalization and Governance
Globalization and Governance is a completely up-to-date, impartial survey of a variety of perspectives on what constitutes governance and how globalization may impact governance and the state. Eleven essays and a thorough introduction provide a theoretical framework and a literature overview. Unlike most books on the subject, this does not espouse any ideological agenda and examines the topical subject of globalization in a conceptually rigorous …
Explaining the Resurgence of U.S. Competitiveness: The Rise of Wintelism
What explains the resurgence of U.S. international competitiveness in the 1990s? The previous decade can be characterized as one of intense U.S. concern about its declining international competitiveness. In this article, we argue that U.S. industry adopted a new industrial paradigm called "Wintelism" in response to competitive pressures from western Europe and East Asia. The essence of Wintelism is a reliance on open but owned technical standards…
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education
"Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe" published on by Yale University Press.
The Indispensable Enlightenment: Molière and Voltaire
This chapter looks at the period of the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason. It studies two great and representative authors: Molière and Voltaire. The middle of the seventeenth century saw devastation in warfare and the religious conflicts of the Reformation. The Enlightenment gave rise to a much more sustained critical reason and brought about a new movement in thought and educated culture. The performed plays of Molière dramatized the powerful…
Athens: The Heroic Phase
This chapter examines Athens in terms of the proliferation of Homer's epics. Homer, in a sense, was the educator of Greece, according to Plato, who was not only inspired by him, but tried to go beyond him as well. The chapter notes, however, how the Homeric epic material has roots in common with other major epic emerging in the Middle East—particularly that of the patriarchs and Moses in the Hebrew Bible. Because of Homer's enormous talent, epics…
Indicators of Economic Integration
Digital Television in Europe and Japan
The decision of the FCC in the United States to select an all-digital HDTV system was a surprise to HDTV supporters in Europe and Japan. Both had adopted hybrid systems with both analog and digital features. Western Europe was quicker than Japan to move away from its previous arrangements. It dropped HD-MAC in June 1993 and moved on to create the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) group to support digital television. It also responded by increasing…
The decline of ‘embedded liberalism’ and the rearticulation of the Keynesian welfare state
Display's the Thing: The Real Stakes in the Conflict over High-Resolution Displays
Japan has a strong lead over both the United States and Western Europe in the development of liquid crystal displays (LCDs). We argue in this article that LCDs and associated integrated display technologies are critical for competition in a growing proportion of global electronics markets. The “architecture of supply” is the issue here, and U.S. firms need help from the government to insure that they will have access to the latest display technol…
Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe
Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe
Journal Article Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe Get access Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. By (JEFFREY A.) Hart. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. x + 305. US $36.25 hardback, US $18.65 paperback. ISBN 0 8014 2649 9, 0 8014 9949 6.) Pat Devine Pat Devine University of Manchester Search for other …
The Politics of HDTV in the United States
Policies adopted by the United States government between 1987 and 1993 regarding high definition television (HDTV) were made primarily by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). A brief effort by members of Congress and their bureaucratic and industrial allies to link HDTV to broader industrial policies was thwarted by the George Bush Administration between 1988 and 1990. The FCC's policies with respect to simulcasting and digital signals re…
Reform must begin with K-12
Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan and Western Europe
The Effects of State–Societal Arrangements on International Competitiveness: Steel, Motor Vehicles and Semiconductors in the United States, Japan and Western Europe
Changes in international competitiveness since the Second World War have favoured Germany and Japan over France, the United States and Britain. This applies to competitiveness in general, but is examined here in three specific industries: steel, motor vehicles and semiconductors. Explanations of changes in competitiveness often focus on economic and cultural variables, but an examination of the three industries shows that a better explanation can…
Three approaches to the measurement of power in international relations
There are three main approaches to the observation and measurement of power: 1) control over resources, 2) control over actors, and 3) control over events and outcomes. The control over events and outcomes approach emerges as the best approach to the measurement of power in contemporary international politics because: 1) it is the only approach which takes into account the possibility of interdependence and collective action, 2) it is more genera…
The Relationship between Defense Spending and Inflation
The relationship between defense spending and inflation has been of interest to scholars and policymakers throughout much of the post-World War II era. Yet there is no agreement as to the exact nature of the relationship. We attempt to shed some light on this matter by identifying the alternative conceptualizations of the relationship between defense spending and inflation that appear in the literature and subjecting them to empirical examination…
Cognitive Maps of Three Latin American Policy Makers
Cognitive maps are representations of the causal beliefs or assertions of a specific individual. Maps of three Latin American policy makers (Carlos Andrés Pérez, Roberto de Oliveira Campos, and Aurelio de Lyra Tavares) suggest new hypotheses and ways of comparing maps across individuals: (i) individuals with broader political responsibility may have more complicated maps with respect to numbers of goals and policies, but less complicated maps wit…
Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan and Western Europe
Symmetry and Polarization in the European International System, 1870 - 1879: A Methodological Study
Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm
Digital Formations: IT and New Architectures in the Global Realm. Edited by Robert Latham and Saskia Sassen. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 367p. $65.00 cloth, $27.95 paper. This is an interesting collection of essays about what the editors call “digital formations.” A social formation is something in society that is emerging without a single founding event, in its early stages of development, and tending toward a variable structure…
Theories of Collective Goods Reexamined
S EVERAL theories address the question of how individual members of a collectivity, acting in a self-interested manner, will contribute to the provision of a collective good. The prior question of what a collective good is has been answered in a variety of ways, with different theorists offering different definitions. It is our intention, in this work, to show how different definitions of collective goods lead to very different conclusions about …
Structures of influence and cooperation‐conflict
This paper outlines a structural approach to the analysis of patterns of influence and amity‐enmity in international politics. Structure is defined as a set of relations between pairs of social units, which justifies the use of graph theory to represent structures. Graph theoretical models of international structure are explored—one for each of the two types of relations. The author devises some typologies and observes changing structures. A tend…
Explaining the Resurgence of U.S. Competitiveness: The Rise of Wintelism
What explains the resurgence of U.S. international competitiveness in the 1990s? The previous decade can be characterized as one of intense U.S. concern about its declining international competitiveness. In this article, we argue that U.S. industry adopted a new industrial paradigm called "Wintelism" in response to competitive pressures from western Europe and East Asia. The essence of Wintelism is a reliance on open but owned technical standards…
Display's the Thing: The Real Stakes in the Conflict over High-Resolution Displays
Japan has a strong lead over both the United States and Western Europe in the development of liquid crystal displays (LCDs). We argue in this article that LCDs and associated integrated display technologies are critical for competition in a growing proportion of global electronics markets. The “architecture of supply” is the issue here, and U.S. firms need help from the government to insure that they will have access to the latest display technol…
The Politics of HDTV in the United States
Policies adopted by the United States government between 1987 and 1993 regarding high definition television (HDTV) were made primarily by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). A brief effort by members of Congress and their bureaucratic and industrial allies to link HDTV to broader industrial policies was thwarted by the George Bush Administration between 1988 and 1990. The FCC's policies with respect to simulcasting and digital signals re…
The Effects of State–Societal Arrangements on International Competitiveness: Steel, Motor Vehicles and Semiconductors in the United States, Japan and Western Europe
Changes in international competitiveness since the Second World War have favoured Germany and Japan over France, the United States and Britain. This applies to competitiveness in general, but is examined here in three specific industries: steel, motor vehicles and semiconductors. Explanations of changes in competitiveness often focus on economic and cultural variables, but an examination of the three industries shows that a better explanation can…
The Net Neutrality Debate in the United States
In 2006, a major telecommunications bill was held up because it did not include guarantees for something called “net neutrality.” Republicans strongly opposed these guarantees, while Democrats strongly favored them. The debate over net neutrality continued during the long campaign leading up to the 2008 presidential election. When the Obama Administration took office in 2009, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Julius Genac…
Indicators of Economic Integration
Burke and Radical Freedom
As everyone knows, an enormous revival of interest in Edmund Burke has taken place during the past twenty years or so, the period, roughly, since the end of the Second World War. Scholars, to be sure, have always been interested in him, and he was widely admired for his style, and by some for his “practical wisdom,” during the nineteenth century. But the point is that in our time he has come to be read not merely as one among a large number of ot…
The decline of ‘embedded liberalism’ and the rearticulation of the Keynesian welfare state
The politics of global competition in the telecommunications industry
Burke and Radical Freedom
As everyone knows, an enormous revival of interest in Edmund Burke has taken place during the past twenty years or so, the period, roughly, since the end of the Second World War. Scholars, to be sure, have always been interested in him, and he was widely admired for his style, and by some for his “practical wisdom,” during the nineteenth century. But the point is that in our time he has come to be read not merely as one among a large number of ot…
Structures of influence and cooperation‐conflict
This paper outlines a structural approach to the analysis of patterns of influence and amity‐enmity in international politics. Structure is defined as a set of relations between pairs of social units, which justifies the use of graph theory to represent structures. Graph theoretical models of international structure are explored—one for each of the two types of relations. The author devises some typologies and observes changing structures. A tend…
Symmetry and Polarization in the European International System, 1870 - 1879: A Methodological Study
Three approaches to the measurement of power in international relations
There are three main approaches to the observation and measurement of power: 1) control over resources, 2) control over actors, and 3) control over events and outcomes. The control over events and outcomes approach emerges as the best approach to the measurement of power in contemporary international politics because: 1) it is the only approach which takes into account the possibility of interdependence and collective action, 2) it is more genera…
Cognitive Maps of Three Latin American Policy Makers
Cognitive maps are representations of the causal beliefs or assertions of a specific individual. Maps of three Latin American policy makers (Carlos Andrés Pérez, Roberto de Oliveira Campos, and Aurelio de Lyra Tavares) suggest new hypotheses and ways of comparing maps across individuals: (i) individuals with broader political responsibility may have more complicated maps with respect to numbers of goals and policies, but less complicated maps wit…
Theories of Collective Goods Reexamined
S EVERAL theories address the question of how individual members of a collectivity, acting in a self-interested manner, will contribute to the provision of a collective good. The prior question of what a collective good is has been answered in a variety of ways, with different theorists offering different definitions. It is our intention, in this work, to show how different definitions of collective goods lead to very different conclusions about …
The ethnobotany of the Northern Cheyenne Indians of Montana
Democracy in Latin America: Promise and Problems, by Robert Wesson
Journal Article Democracy in Latin America: Promise and Problems, by Robert Wesson Get access Democracy in Latin America: Promise and Problems by Wesson Robert. New York, Praeger Publishers, 1982. Cloth, $23.95; paper, $10.95. Jeffrey A. Hart Jeffrey A. Hart Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 4, Winter 1983, Pages 750–751, https://doi.org/10.230…
The Relationship between Defense Spending and Inflation
The relationship between defense spending and inflation has been of interest to scholars and policymakers throughout much of the post-World War II era. Yet there is no agreement as to the exact nature of the relationship. We attempt to shed some light on this matter by identifying the alternative conceptualizations of the relationship between defense spending and inflation that appear in the literature and subjecting them to empirical examination…
Politics of Global Competition in the Semiconductor Industry
Computers in Political Science
This article focuses first on two types of innovation in software, microcomputer simulations and applications of artificial intelligence, and second, on innovations in hardware that will have implications for political science research. It also adds to previous reviews of computing in political science (e.g., Frantzich & Purkitt, 1987) by discussing some relatively obscure but relevant and potentially valuable information services. Keywords: simu…
The politics of global competition in the telecommunications industry
Responding to the Challenge of HDTV
The United States must regain a foothold in consumer electronics if it is to safeguard its economic and security interests. Participation in future markets for high definition television (HDTV) may be the right vehicle for doing this. But because the U.S. consumer electronics industry has been greatly reduced in size and technological capability since the 1960s, it will be necessary to pursue a short-term strategy of cooperation with foreign-owne…
The Effects of State–Societal Arrangements on International Competitiveness: Steel, Motor Vehicles and Semiconductors in the United States, Japan and Western Europe
Changes in international competitiveness since the Second World War have favoured Germany and Japan over France, the United States and Britain. This applies to competitiveness in general, but is examined here in three specific industries: steel, motor vehicles and semiconductors. Explanations of changes in competitiveness often focus on economic and cultural variables, but an examination of the three industries shows that a better explanation can…
Reform must begin with K-12
Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan and Western Europe
Display's the Thing: The Real Stakes in the Conflict over High-Resolution Displays
Japan has a strong lead over both the United States and Western Europe in the development of liquid crystal displays (LCDs). We argue in this article that LCDs and associated integrated display technologies are critical for competition in a growing proportion of global electronics markets. The “architecture of supply” is the issue here, and U.S. firms need help from the government to insure that they will have access to the latest display technol…
Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe
Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe
Journal Article Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe Get access Rival Capitalists: International Competitiveness in the United States, Japan, and Western Europe. By (JEFFREY A.) Hart. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1992. Pp. x + 305. US $36.25 hardback, US $18.65 paperback. ISBN 0 8014 2649 9, 0 8014 9949 6.) Pat Devine Pat Devine University of Manchester Search for other …
The Politics of HDTV in the United States
Policies adopted by the United States government between 1987 and 1993 regarding high definition television (HDTV) were made primarily by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). A brief effort by members of Congress and their bureaucratic and industrial allies to link HDTV to broader industrial policies was thwarted by the George Bush Administration between 1988 and 1990. The FCC's policies with respect to simulcasting and digital signals re…
The decline of ‘embedded liberalism’ and the rearticulation of the Keynesian welfare state
Digital Television in Europe and Japan
The decision of the FCC in the United States to select an all-digital HDTV system was a surprise to HDTV supporters in Europe and Japan. Both had adopted hybrid systems with both analog and digital features. Western Europe was quicker than Japan to move away from its previous arrangements. It dropped HD-MAC in June 1993 and moved on to create the Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) group to support digital television. It also responded by increasing…
Indicators of Economic Integration
Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe: Toward the Revival of Higher Education
"Smiling Through the Cultural Catastrophe" published on by Yale University Press.
The Indispensable Enlightenment: Molière and Voltaire
This chapter looks at the period of the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason. It studies two great and representative authors: Molière and Voltaire. The middle of the seventeenth century saw devastation in warfare and the religious conflicts of the Reformation. The Enlightenment gave rise to a much more sustained critical reason and brought about a new movement in thought and educated culture. The performed plays of Molière dramatized the powerful…
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