Deil S Wright

Biographic Data

ID3628019
NAMEDeil S Wright
GIVEN NAMESDeil S
FAMILY NAMEWright
SIGNATUREWRIGHT D S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS42
TOTAL CITATIONS160
AUTHOR COUNT42
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1956
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
H-INDEX5

  • State-Level Measures of Institutional Budgetary Influence from the American State Administrators Project: 1964–98

    Open AccessNelson C Dometrius, Cynthia J Bowling et al.ARTICLEState Politics & Policy Quarterly2013References: 13

    The American State Administrators Project is a half-century long research program surveying the attitudes and behavior of state agency leaders. The project has produced a voluminous number of publications and conference papers. At the same time it has also faced several difficulties in making its data more widely available to the scholarly community. This paper describes the Project, some of the data difficulties it has faced, and the portion of …

  • Governors, Legislatures, and State Budgets across Time

    Open AccessNelson C Dometrius, Deil S WrightARTICLEPolitical Research Quarterly2010Cited by: 12References: 35

    Prior research by Abney and Lauth concluded that governors were losing ground to legislatures in shaping the state budget. Goodman examined Abney and Lauth’s explanations for this change and found empirical support for some but not others. This article’s findings reveal that governors, as a group, have not declined in budgetary influence, although some have gained and others lost during recent decades. The longitudinal analysis arrives at two maj…

  • Duncan Macrae, Jr

    Open AccessDeil S WrightARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2009

    Duncan MacRae, Jr., was appointed Kenan Professor of Political Science and Sociology at the University of North Carolina in 1972 and served in that capacity until his death as emeritus professor in July 2008

  • The “Revolt in Dullsville” Revisited: Lessons for Theory, Practice, and Research from the American State Administrators Project, 1964–2008

    Open AccessJeffrey L Brudney, Deil S WrightARTICLEPublic Administration Review2009References: 35

  • Strategies for Measuring Influence over State Agencies

    Open AccessNelson C Dometrius, Brendan F Burke et al.ARTICLEState Politics & Policy Quarterly2008Cited by: 4References: 21

    In the summer 2006 edition ofState Politics and Policy Quarterly, Michael Baranowski and Donald Gross examined two methods of measuring influence over state agency activities: freestanding versus paired comparison. Their analysis led them to conclude that the paired-comparison measures might be theoretically superior, but are often impractical. Using the American State Administrator Project (ASAP) surveys, we supplement Baranowski and Gross's ana…

  • Continuity and Change in Executive Leadership: Insights from the Perspectives of State Administrators

    Open AccessBrendan F Burke, Chung‐lae Cho et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review2008References: 13

    Executive leadership in state government is examined at two levels, both from the perspectives of the heads of state administrative agencies responding to mail question surveys in 1994, 1998, and 2004. At one level, the status and strength of the governor in controlling and leading the executive branch are assessed. At the second (agency) level, state executives (and their agencies) are assessed on four criteria that are connected, directly or in…

  • Robert Paul Boynton

    Open AccessRobert E Cleary, Deil S WrightARTICLEPS Political Science & Politics2006

    Robert Paul Boynton (universally known as Bob) died of cancer on November 4, 2005, at age 78. Bob was a collegial colleague, constructive collaborator, compassionate confidante, and consummate cosmopolitan. These alliterative categories attempt to capture the primary qualities of Bob's 50 years of scholarly public life. The designations, however, fall woefully short of encompassing what he contributed to numerous university, association, communit…

  • Cracked Ceilings, Firmer Floors, and Weakening Walls: Trends and Patterns in Gender Representation among Executives Leading American State Agencies, 1970?2000

    Open AccessCynthia J Bowling, Christine A Kelleher et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review2006References: 44

    Trends of female access to and presence in responsible governmental positions have gained substantial attention. The research reported here assesses and seeks convergence on several issues associated with gender representation. It extends the research by focusing on top executive posts in American state governments. In particular, the presence of women agency heads in all 50 states is examined from 1970 through 2000 using the lenses of passive re…

  • Establishing a Continuum from Minimizing to Maximizing Bureaucrats: State Agency Head Preferences for Governmental Expansion—A Typology of Administrator Growth Postures, 1964–98

    Open AccessCynthia J Bowling, Chung‐lae Cho et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review2004References: 24

    Scholars have long suspected the blanket description of bureaucrats as “budget maximizers” is simplistic and inaccurate. This article provides empirical grounds for questioning that description and enhances our understanding of bureaucratic fiscal preferences. Bureaucratic preferences for expansion are distributed along a continuum. A typology of agency heads' expansion preferences is developed and related to Downs's typology of bureaucrats. Data…

  • Exploring and Explaining Contracting Out: Patterns among the American States

    Jeffrey L Brudney, Sergio Fernandez et al.ARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…2004Cited by: 92References: 19

    Although a vast literature explores government contracting out for the delivery of publicly financed services, comparatively little of this analysis, whether descriptive or explanatory, focuses on the American states. Accordingly, the present research has two primary goals. It first examines the extent of contracting out by state agencies and the perceived effects of this activity on the quality and costs of service delivery. The second aim is to…

  • Revisiting Administrative Reform in the American States: The Status of Reinventing Government During the 1990s

    Open AccessJeffrey L Brudney, Deil S WrightARTICLEPublic Administration Review2002References: 9

  • Reinventing Government in the American States: Measuring and Explaining Administrative Reform

    Jeffrey L Brudney, F Ted Hebert et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1999

    Reform waves flowing across the American political landscape are not new. In the states they have paralleled and sometimes preceded national reforms that began early in this century and extended into recent decades (Garnett, 1980; Conant, 1988, 1992). Shortly after the federal Taft Commission proposed management reforms in 1912, states set pattern of examining their structures for possible reorganization. Garnett (1980) identified state reorganiz…

  • Local Power in the Japanese State . Michio Muramatsu , Betsy Scheiner , James White

    Deil S WrightARTICLEThe Journal of Politics1998

  • Five phases of intergovernmental relations in Japan: Policy shifts and governance reform

    Open AccessOsamu Koike, Deil S WrightARTICLEInternational Review of…1998Cited by: 1References: 1

  • Change and Continuity in State Administration: Administrative Leadership across Four Decades

    Cynthia J Bowling, Deil S WrightARTICLEPublic Administration Review1998References: 20

    governments are the keystones of the federal system. This assertive metaphor takes on added significance as the states are increasingly challenged by Supreme Court decisions, fiscal pressures, federal mandates, selective devolution, and policy implementation complexities. The political challenges must be addressed in the broad arena of electoral politics by governors, legislators, courts, and other constitutional or institutional actors. But few,…

  • Globalization and Decentralization: Institutional Contexts, Policy Issues, and Intergovernmental Relations in Japan and the United States

    Terry Macdougall, Jong Sup Jun et al.ARTICLEJournal of Japanese Studies1998

    ForewordR. Scott Fosler and Shinyasu Hoshino Globalization and Decentralization: An OverviewJong S. Jun and Deil S. Wright Part I: Institutional Contexts Introduction 1. From Dual to Coercive Federalism in American Intergovernmental RelationsJohn Kincaid 2. Intergovernmental Relations in Japan: Historical and Legal Patterns of Power DistributionFukashi Horie 3. Innovative Policies and Administrative Strategies for Intergovernmental Change in Japa…

  • Globalization & Decentralization: Institutional Contexts, Policy Issues, and Intergovernmental Relations in Japan and the United States

    David W Edgington, Jong S Jun et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1997

  • Public Administration Education and Formal Administrative Position: Do They Make a Difference? A Note on Pope's Proposition and Miles' Law in an Intergovernmental Context

    Jaewon Yoo, Jae-Won Yoo et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1994Cited by: 5References: 11

    Tis education forms die common mind; Just as the twig is bent the tree's inclined (Alexander Pope, 1734). you stand depends on where you sit (Rufus Miles, 1978). Few topics promote more extensive and even endless debate than issues surrounding the impact, positive and negative, of education. Does education in general, and professional public administration education in particular, make a difference in the performance or the perspectives of its re…

  • Circumventing the Glass Ceiling: Women Executives in American State Governments

    Angela M Bullard, Deil S WrightARTICLEPublic Administration Review1993

  • Public Policy and Intergovernmental Relations: Measuring Perceived Change(s) in National Influence‐The Effects of the Federalism Decade

    Open AccessJaewon Yoo, Jae‐won Yoo et al.ARTICLEPolicy Studies Journal1993Cited by: 5References: 27

    Federal grants‐in‐aid have been a major instrument for the exercise of national influence on the states. This research investigates empirically the degree of perceived national influence (PNI) exerted through the grant process during the 1970s and 1980s. Respondents were state administrators heading agencies that received federal grants. Surveys at four points in time across the two decades produced a unidimensional measure of PNI. PNI levels wer…

  • Federalism in the 1990s

    Deil S WrightARTICLEJournal of Public Administration…1992References: 1

    Federalism in the 1990s Get access Thomas R. Dye, American Federalism: Competition Among Governments. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1990, 219 pp. paperback. Vincent Ostrom. The Meaning of American Federalism: Constituting a Self-Governing Society. San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1991, 299 pp. hardcover. Deil S. Wright Deil S. Wright University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Goog…

  • From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt: Federal Policy, Economic Development, and the Transformation of the South, 1938–1980, by Bruce J. Schulman

    Open AccessDeil S WrightARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1991Cited by: 13

    From Cotton Belt to Sunbelt investigates the effects of federal policy on the American South from 1938 until 1980 and charts the close relationship between federal efforts to reform the South and the evolution of activist government in the modern United States. Decrying the South's economic backwardness and political conservatism, the Roosevelt Administration launched a series of programs to reorder the Southern economy in the 1930s. After 1950, …

  • Policy Shifts in the Politics and Administration of Intergovernmental Relations, 1930s-1990s

    Open AccessDeil S WrightARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1990Cited by: 3References: 4

    Politics and administration were joined and inseparably bonded in intergovernmental relationships during the 1930s. From these early links emerged an administratively based and professionally managed grants economy. This grants economy dominated intergovernmental relations for three decades until a combination of conditions limited its further expansion. Over the past two decades there has been a significant shift toward regulatory federalism. Th…

  • Federalism, Intergovernmental Relations, and Intergovernmental Management: Historical Reflections and Conceptual Comparisons

    Deil S WrightARTICLEPublic Administration Review1990

  • Administrative Turnover in State Government: A Research Note

    Open AccessPeter J Haas, Deil S WrightARTICLEAdministration & Society1989Cited by: 2References: 6

    The frequency with which lop administrative officials in state government retain (or leave) their positions as agency heads is documented and discussions in this preliminary descriptive analysis of administrative turnover/tenure in state government. Two-year turnover rates during a 24-year period (1959-1983) are analyzed for 72 different types of administrative agencies in all 50 stales. Several findings ape prominent. (1) turnover rates have inc…