Charles Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628063 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colorado State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4080-8579 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 230 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Theatertreffen 2024 , a reflection by Charles Davis
Each year, in the European spring, the Theatertreffen offers a sample of contemporary German-language theatre from the past year. Ten distinguished productions are curated into a two week festival
Toward a computational mixed methods framework to measure online deliberative discourse
This article proposes and tests a reproducible framework for a computational method to measure social media-based deliberative discourse by analyzing commentary surrounding the Canadian convoy protests of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and restrictions. Employing a combination of analytic calculations, alongside tools such as Google Perspective and Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC), this article assesses the quality of online deliberative disco…
Our Founders’ Fears: The Roots of the Criminalization of African Americans
Ubuntu and Educational Leadership: Reflections From a Cultural Newcomer in Senegal
Ubuntu has implications that extend beyond the boundaries of the organization, promoting a strong sense of mutual dependence with the community. For educational leaders, Ubuntu implies strong connections with parents of students as well as the entire local population. The author of this chapter is an American who has worked in Senegal for 25 years and learned about Ubuntu in the context of educational leadership. Using enacted environment theory …
Transnational over-the-top media distribution as a business and policy disruptor: The case of Netflix in Canada
Digital disruption is often characterized as the conflict between the exponential rate of change in technology, and the slower-paced, incremental rate of change in law, economy, policy, and society writ-large (Franklin, 2012). The rapid encroachment of over-the-top (OTT) content distribution raises policy issues concerning jurisdiction, access, pricing, consolidation of ownership, and source diversity (Holt, 2014), while undermining many of the t…
Fracking and environmental protection: An analysis of U.S. state policies
Who Is at ‘Fault?’” The Media and the Stories of Induced Seismicity
Media attention to earthquake risks linked to the underground injection of produced waters from oil and gas fracking operations has increased over the past few years. However, little scholarly attention has been devoted to newspaper coverage of events and state policy actions that are associated with “induced seismicity.” A key concern addressed in this article is whether newspaper coverage is largely unrestrained or is restricted by other factor…
Mitigating Risks From Fracking-Related Earthquakes: Assessing State Regulatory Decisions
Public concern about earthquakes linked to wastewater injection from fracking operations is rising. However, few have examined how “induced seismicity” is acted upon by state officials. For some, an incremental response to smaller quakes can be viewed as an acceptable risk policy orientation because of the sizeable economic benefits that accompany drilling activities while others prefer risk mitigation policies (such as the use of “threshold poli…
Principles of American Journalism: An Introduction
Designed to engage, inspire and challenge students while laying out the fundamentals of the craft, Principles of American Journalism introduces readers to the core values of journalism and its singular role in a democracy. From the First Amendment to Facebook, the new and revised edition of this popular textbook provides a comprehensive exploration of the guiding principles of journalism and what makes it unique: the profession's ethical and lega…
BLM, the Administrative Presidency, and Policy Shifts: Policy Tools Affecting Oil and Gas Operations
This paper addresses change in oil and gas policies pushed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) during the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Administrative policy changes occurred not only because of election outcomes and the emergence of new governing coalitions but BLM's selective utilization of policy tools such as rulemaking, planning, environmental impact analyses, and the use of discretionary authority to…
Energy Abundance or Environmental Worries? Analyzing Public Support for Fracking in the U nited S tates
This paper provides an analysis of public attitudes toward fracking use and policies with an eye toward factors that help us account for differing levels of support. Using data from a national survey of A merican adults, we found that women and people residing in urban areas are slightly more inclined to oppose fracking and to favor more regulation in terms of drilling operations and company chemical disclosure requirements than men or people liv…
Principles of American Journalism: An Introduction
In a rapidly changing media landscape, what becomes of journalism? Designed to engage, inspire and challenge students while laying out the fundamental principles of the craft, Principles of American Journalism introduces students to the core values of journalism and its singularly important role in a democracy. From the First Amendment to Facebook, Stephanie Craft and Charles N. Davis provide a comprehensive exploration of the guiding principles …
Federalizing energy? Agenda change and the politics of fracking
"The Politics of "Fracking: Regulating Natural Gas Drilling Practices in Colorado and Texas
This article focuses on the politics of regulating natural gas fracking operations in Colorado and Texas. Between-state differences in the economic importance of natural gas production, political traditions, environmental impacts of drilling activities, and local governmental responses to risk reduction, and entrepreneurial activities are discussed in relation to policy-making initiatives. In the concluding section, I suggest that Colorado's regu…
Energy Development in the US Rockies: A Role for Counties
This article analyzes the role played by county commissioners in Colorado and Montana in restricting or facilitating the use of clean energy sources in the generation of electrical power. Using data obtained from responses to an internet survey, we found that many commissioners in both states developed land use policies dealing with renewable energy resources over the preceding five years. Colorado and Montana officials were quite similar in term…
King Coal vs. Reclamation: Federal Regulation of Mountaintop Removal Mining in Appalachia
This research focuses on the regulatory politics of mountaintop removal mining for coal within the Appalachian states of West Virginia and Kentucky. Based on Administrative Presidency concepts suggesting that chief executives seek more control and influence over agency program decisions, this article analyzes President George W. Bush’s efforts to promote the development of coal resources within these states despite statutory constraints posed by …
Preemptive Federalism or Regulatory Dismantlement? The Bush Administration's Implementation of the Federal Coal Mining Reclamation Program
This article examines the implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) under the administration of President George W. Bush. It addresses a problem that is both conceptual and practical: how does a chief executive deal with policies that are at odds with each other? While the original purpose of SMCRA was to reclaim lands adversely affected by coal mining operations, I suggest that implementation efforts since 2001 hav…
The Politics of Regulatory Change: National Forest Management Planning under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
This paper examines regulatory change from the William J. Clinton administration through the presidency of George W. Bush by focusing on their respective efforts to alter national forest planning procedures mandated by the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (NFMA). While rule making has become an important alternative pathway for making policy, the strategies used to develop a new rule may vary among presidents because of differing values and…
Managing Wildlife within U.S. National Forests
The main question addressed in this research is whether the Forest Service has been able to maintain control over its wildlife conservation program in the face of increased interest and policymaking activity from the president and Congress. Determining who has influence over wildlife management decisions is assessed by examining the development of national forest policies over the past 30 years along with more recent shifts in rulemaking and the …
Assessing the influence of regional Environmental Protection Agency offices on state hazardous waste enforcement decisions
In assessing the influence of regional Environmental Protection Agency EPA offices on the state management of hazardous waste programs, we focused on the extent to which federal administrative decisions affect levels of enforcement activity by state environmental agencies and whether these effects vary over time. Our results indicated that state enforcement actions were affected by state program capacity variables such as primacy and the strength…
Western Wildfires: A Policy Change Perspective
My research objective in this article is to analyze policy change affecting wildfire suppression programs administered by the United States Forest Service and the United States Department of the Interior. Using a variant of the punctuated equilibrium approach, a content analysis of New York Times stories dealing with wildfires over the past two decades was examined in relation to both administrative and legislative policy changes. I conclude by s…
Los aposentos del Corral de la Cruz: 1581-1823. Estudio y documentos
Actividad teatral en la región de Madrid según los protocolos de Juan García de Albertos, 1634-1660: Estudio y documentos
En 1639 el escribano madrileno Juan Garcia de Albertos fue nombrado Escribano de la Comision de las comedias. Sus protocolos notariales contienen mas de 2.000 escrituras relacionadas con actores y actividad teatral de 1634 a 1660. Esta riquisima coleccion ofrece un fascinante panorama de la vida teatral de Madrid y su comarca, en toda su diversidad, durante la epoca de Calderon. Son especialmente abundantes los contratos de representaciones en fi…
Getting out the Cut: Politics and National Forest Timber Harvests,1960-1995
To what extent do national forest policy decisions reflect a balance between the interests of environmentalists and the timber industries? National forest policy making from 1960 through 1995 was analyzed using the advocacy coalition framework developed by Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith. The authors found that forest policy shifted in a more ecologically sensitive direction beginning in the late 1980s. Changes were largely attributable to the ability…
The West in Flames: The Intergovernmental Politics of Wildfire Suppression and Prevention
This research examines changes in the intergovernmental policy arrangements governing the control of wildfires in the western United States. For much of the twentieth century, the policymaking structure resembled Deil S. Wright's inclusive authority model whereby fire policy was dominated by the U.S. Forest Service with the states playing a supporting role. More recently, the states have become increasingly important in the decision-making proces…
Energy Abundance or Environmental Worries? Analyzing Public Support for Fracking in the U nited S tates
This paper provides an analysis of public attitudes toward fracking use and policies with an eye toward factors that help us account for differing levels of support. Using data from a national survey of A merican adults, we found that women and people residing in urban areas are slightly more inclined to oppose fracking and to favor more regulation in terms of drilling operations and company chemical disclosure requirements than men or people liv…
"The Politics of "Fracking: Regulating Natural Gas Drilling Practices in Colorado and Texas
This article focuses on the politics of regulating natural gas fracking operations in Colorado and Texas. Between-state differences in the economic importance of natural gas production, political traditions, environmental impacts of drilling activities, and local governmental responses to risk reduction, and entrepreneurial activities are discussed in relation to policy-making initiatives. In the concluding section, I suggest that Colorado's regu…
Federalizing energy? Agenda change and the politics of fracking
Analyzing Change in Public Lands Policymaking: From Subsystems to Advocacy Coalitions
The West in Flames: The Intergovernmental Politics of Wildfire Suppression and Prevention
This research examines changes in the intergovernmental policy arrangements governing the control of wildfires in the western United States. For much of the twentieth century, the policymaking structure resembled Deil S. Wright's inclusive authority model whereby fire policy was dominated by the U.S. Forest Service with the states playing a supporting role. More recently, the states have become increasingly important in the decision-making proces…
State Enforcement of the Federal Hazardous Waste Program
This article assesses the usefulness of the principal-agent, economic dependency, and state political resources approaches in accounting for differences in state-level enforcement of the federal hazardous waste management program. Using a cross-sectional analysis of state enforcement efforts, we find limited support for the state political resources approach, but also identified sources of influence contrary to its expectations. Our findings are …
Public Involvement in Hazardous Waste Siting Decisions
Decentralizing Federal Environmental Policy: A Research Note
Getting out the Cut: Politics and National Forest Timber Harvests,1960-1995
To what extent do national forest policy decisions reflect a balance between the interests of environmentalists and the timber industries? National forest policy making from 1960 through 1995 was analyzed using the advocacy coalition framework developed by Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith. The authors found that forest policy shifted in a more ecologically sensitive direction beginning in the late 1980s. Changes were largely attributable to the ability…
Fracking and environmental protection: An analysis of U.S. state policies
Mitigating Risks From Fracking-Related Earthquakes: Assessing State Regulatory Decisions
Public concern about earthquakes linked to wastewater injection from fracking operations is rising. However, few have examined how “induced seismicity” is acted upon by state officials. For some, an incremental response to smaller quakes can be viewed as an acceptable risk policy orientation because of the sizeable economic benefits that accompany drilling activities while others prefer risk mitigation policies (such as the use of “threshold poli…
Perceptions of Hazardous Waste Policy Issues Among Public and Private Sector Administrators
1. Clear and consistent policy objectives. 2. A sound theory incorporated within the legislation which identifies the principal factors affecting both policy objectives and the type of behavior expected of target group members. 3. Coherent structuring of the implementation process by the enabling legislation. 4. Commitment and skill of implementing officials. 5. Support from organized constituency groups and key sovereigns. 6. Changing socioecono…
Wherein there is no Ecstasy
The reconvergence of theology and religious studies
BLM, the Administrative Presidency, and Policy Shifts: Policy Tools Affecting Oil and Gas Operations
This paper addresses change in oil and gas policies pushed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) during the administrations of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Administrative policy changes occurred not only because of election outcomes and the emergence of new governing coalitions but BLM's selective utilization of policy tools such as rulemaking, planning, environmental impact analyses, and the use of discretionary authority to…
King Coal vs. Reclamation: Federal Regulation of Mountaintop Removal Mining in Appalachia
This research focuses on the regulatory politics of mountaintop removal mining for coal within the Appalachian states of West Virginia and Kentucky. Based on Administrative Presidency concepts suggesting that chief executives seek more control and influence over agency program decisions, this article analyzes President George W. Bush’s efforts to promote the development of coal resources within these states despite statutory constraints posed by …
Western Wildfires: A Policy Change Perspective
My research objective in this article is to analyze policy change affecting wildfire suppression programs administered by the United States Forest Service and the United States Department of the Interior. Using a variant of the punctuated equilibrium approach, a content analysis of New York Times stories dealing with wildfires over the past two decades was examined in relation to both administrative and legislative policy changes. I conclude by s…
State Implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
The implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) of 1977 in coal producing states is guided by a partial preemption policy approach t h a t establishes a balance between federal and state decision-making authority. The usefulness of this approach is assessed by analyzing state enforcement actions in relation the institutional capacity of states to shoulder regulatory responsibilities and the propensity of the federal O…
Alternative Levels of Analysis in Hazardous Waste Regulatory Policy
The articles in this collection serve to illustrate that problems of hazardous waste disposal are amenable to analysis from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Understanding the interplay between high‐risk policy problems, changing political and economic circumstances, and actions taken by political actors with a stake in decisional outcomes should yield information of substantial value to public administrators as well as students of the publi…
Maritime Quarantine: The Naval Interdiction of Offensive Weapons and Associated Matériel to Cuba, 1962
It has often been said that international law is a living institution in a living society
Energy Development in the US Rockies: A Role for Counties
This article analyzes the role played by county commissioners in Colorado and Montana in restricting or facilitating the use of clean energy sources in the generation of electrical power. Using data obtained from responses to an internet survey, we found that many commissioners in both states developed land use policies dealing with renewable energy resources over the preceding five years. Colorado and Montana officials were quite similar in term…
Preemptive Federalism or Regulatory Dismantlement? The Bush Administration's Implementation of the Federal Coal Mining Reclamation Program
This article examines the implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) under the administration of President George W. Bush. It addresses a problem that is both conceptual and practical: how does a chief executive deal with policies that are at odds with each other? While the original purpose of SMCRA was to reclaim lands adversely affected by coal mining operations, I suggest that implementation efforts since 2001 hav…
The Politics of Regulatory Change: National Forest Management Planning under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush
This paper examines regulatory change from the William J. Clinton administration through the presidency of George W. Bush by focusing on their respective efforts to alter national forest planning procedures mandated by the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (NFMA). While rule making has become an important alternative pathway for making policy, the strategies used to develop a new rule may vary among presidents because of differing values and…
Assessing the influence of regional Environmental Protection Agency offices on state hazardous waste enforcement decisions
In assessing the influence of regional Environmental Protection Agency EPA offices on the state management of hazardous waste programs, we focused on the extent to which federal administrative decisions affect levels of enforcement activity by state environmental agencies and whether these effects vary over time. Our results indicated that state enforcement actions were affected by state program capacity variables such as primacy and the strength…
Change on the range: Policy reforms and agenda control
The principal research objective in this article was to analyze efforts to bring about change in federal rangeland policies from 1960 to the present. A key question was whether advocates of range reform could overcome entrenched systems of limited participation established under the venerable Taylor Grazing Act of 1934. The authors found that the subgovernmental participants managed to hold their political base fairly well by retaining substantia…
Maritime Quarantine: The Naval Interdiction of Offensive Weapons and Associated Matériel to Cuba, 1962
It has often been said that international law is a living institution in a living society
Stones "Float" from the Sky
The Achievement of Bernard Lonergan. David Tracy
The reconvergence of theology and religious studies
Attitudinal Differences among Supervisors in the Public Sector
Examination of the attitudes of public sector employees with supervisory titles toward unions, grievance procedures, job satisfaction, and the use of merit in personnel matters. Data and methods; Findings and conclusions. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)
The Jesus Book of Edward SchillebeeckxJesus: An Experiment in Christology. Edward Schillebeeckx , Hubert Hoskins
The Fourteenth International Congress of the Iahr
Our New Religious Identity
Mélanges
Theology and Political Society
Journal Article Theology and Political Society, by Charles Davis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980, ix + 196 pp. $19.95 Get access Paul Anthony Schwartz Paul Anthony Schwartz Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 42, Issue 3, Fall 1981, Pages 299–300, https://doi.org/10.2307/3711047 Published: 01 October 1981
Theology and Political Society
Hazardous Waste Politics and Policy
Wherein there is no Ecstasy
Book Notices
Book Notices Get access God among Us: The Gospel Proclaimed. By Edward Schillebeeckx. Crossroad, 1983. 270 pages. $12.95. Charles Davis Charles Davis Concordia University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIII, Issue 1, March 1985, Pages 159-b–160, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIII.1.159-b Published: 01 March 1985
Lonergan Workshop, Vol. 4 Fred Lawrence, editor Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1983. Pp. vi + 186
Jobs, Dollars & Gender: An Analysis of the Comparable Worth Issue in Urban Areas
Alternative Levels of Analysis in Hazardous Waste Regulatory Policy
The articles in this collection serve to illustrate that problems of hazardous waste disposal are amenable to analysis from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Understanding the interplay between high‐risk policy problems, changing political and economic circumstances, and actions taken by political actors with a stake in decisional outcomes should yield information of substantial value to public administrators as well as students of the publi…
Adopting Personnel Productivity Innovations in American Local Governments
Improving the productivity of public employees has increasingly attracted the attention of urban policymakers and administrators concerned about the quality, cost, and efficiency of governmental service delivery. A national survey of local personnel managers was undertaken to ascertain the degree of jurisdictional receptivity to personnel-based management tools, preferred approaches, and the most serious policy and institutional barriers to the i…
Perceptions of Hazardous Waste Policy Issues Among Public and Private Sector Administrators
1. Clear and consistent policy objectives. 2. A sound theory incorporated within the legislation which identifies the principal factors affecting both policy objectives and the type of behavior expected of target group members. 3. Coherent structuring of the implementation process by the enabling legislation. 4. Commitment and skill of implementing officials. 5. Support from organized constituency groups and key sovereigns. 6. Changing socioecono…
Public Involvement in Hazardous Waste Siting Decisions
Nouvelles technologies et société
The immanence of knowledge and the ecstasy of faith
Decentralizing Federal Environmental Policy: A Research Note
Analyzing Change in Public Lands Policymaking: From Subsystems to Advocacy Coalitions
State Implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977
The implementation of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) of 1977 in coal producing states is guided by a partial preemption policy approach t h a t establishes a balance between federal and state decision-making authority. The usefulness of this approach is assessed by analyzing state enforcement actions in relation the institutional capacity of states to shoulder regulatory responsibilities and the propensity of the federal O…
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