G R Boynton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G R Boynton |
| GIVEN NAMES | G R |
| FAMILY NAME | Boynton |
| SIGNATURE | BOYNTON G R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Campaign 2016—The First Words and Their Audiences
When do citizens begin to attend to election campaigns for the presidency? The timing is changing as the infrastructure of communication changes. What could be said in the days when television was dominant is no longer a full answer given the emergence of new media as a vehicle for political communication. This report addresses the question of when by examining the messages posted to Twitter after Jeb Bush said he would consider running for the n…
The Political Domain Goes to Twitter: Hashtags, Retweets and URLs
The argument is twofold. One, the character of political communication on Twitter is sufficiently different from the general character of the Twitter stream, from the "firehose", as it is known that political communication should be considered as a separable domain of communication. Specifically, retweets, urls, and hashtags are used far more frequently in political communication than is true for the full stream of messages and that reflects comm…
Co-Motion—Twitter Enters the Public Domain
Political communication is being dramatically altered by the new or social media. The new media has discovered this communication. The politicians have discovered this communication. The paper is an argument about what the public domain becomes as the new media becomes pervasive in society. The evidence used to buttress the argument is taken from 800 collections of streams of Twitter messages. Twitter is particularly useful as evidence because it…
The Reach of Politics via Twitter—Can That Be Real
If the reach of communication via Twitter is as great as it seems to be, that means a remarkable reconstruction of the public domain is in process. Until recently the public domain was the mass media and what they presented to their audiences. Now the audience has voice and is audience only in a new way. The potential consequences for the organization of politics are great. But there is the “if”. The report examines two challenges to the claim th…
Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom – Edited by Regina Bendix and John Bendix
Traveling Together on the Information Superhighway: Conversations About Politics, Language, and Distance Learning
Distance learning is on the horizon. Modern communications, following its exponential trajectory through telephone, telegraph, radio, film, television and computer networks, continues to transform education. Technology assisted learning promises a higher quality product, at lower cost, to larger numbers of people. Universal public education, as it approaches the 21st century, is at the threshold of a quantum leap forward
Hot Cognition
When Senators and Publics Meet at the Environmental Protection Subcommittee
The hearings of the Senate Environmental Protection Subcommittee on reauthorizing the Clean Air Act of 1987 are analyzed and contrasted with Senate hearings of other committees to show how these hearings fit into the societal debate on clean air. The discourse of the hearings is analyzed by examining the language of the talk and by analyzing the style of argument. The discourse in these hearings is shown to be distinctive by comparing it with oth…
Legislative Representation as Parallel-processing and Problem-Solving
Research on representation as congruence has reached a point of diminishing learning. Three criticisms of congruence or mandatory politics are reviewed. Representation as parallel-processing in problem-solving is introduced, defined, and illustrated by the work of the Senate Agriculture Committee. In addition to a review of the interaction between Senators and witnesses in two committee hearings, the paper examines one decision in detail. The wea…
Ideas and action: A cognitive model of the Senate Agriculture Committee
Guest editors' note: Cognition and political action
Guest editor's note: Cognition and political action
The senate agriculture committee produces a homeostat
Models of the economy implicit in public discourse
Mathematical Thinking about Politics
An Analysis of Consociational Democracy
This is a formal analytical assessment of Arend Lijphart's argument in The Politics of Accommodation that the structure of politics found in the Netherlands results in accommodation among elites and in democratic stability. The analysis leads to the conclusion that accommodation and stability will result only under certain specific conditions; one of these is a decrease over time in the number of political problems to be solved, and another is a …
The Evolution of Public Perceptions of Adenauer as a Historic Leader: Test of a Mathematical Model of Attitude Change
G. R. Boynton, Gerhard Loewenberg, The Evolution of Public Perceptions of Adenauer as a Historic Leader: Test of a Mathematical Model of Attitude Change, Social Science History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 79-100
The Individual in Society
The Decay of Support for Monarchy and the Hitler Regime in the Federal Republic of Germany
Public support for the existing institutions of government depends in part on public perceptions of the alternatives. This assertion will not come as news in those parts of the world where changing the regime is a regular part of political life. In France, for example, where regimes have been numbered to distinguish them from each other, it is common knowledge that public evaluations of the Fourth Republic depended on comparisons with the Third, …
The Development of Public Support for Parliament in Germany, 1951–59
Systems theorists introduced the concept of ‘support’ to permit explanations of political stability and instability. Yet most attempts to verify the existence of a relationship between support and stability empirically have dealt with wellestablished political systems, and have relied on data collected at one point in time. This paper reports an initial effort to examine the growth of support for a new political regime using a series of sample su…
Communal Ideology and Political Support
The Missing Links in Legislative Politics: Attentive Constituents
Perceptions and Expectations of the Legislature and Support for It
In this study, based on a random household probability sample of 1,001 Iowa adults, the basic hypothesis is that congruence between perceptions and expectations about the legislature leads to high support for the legislature, and incongruence between perceptions and expectations leads to low support for the legislature. Data from the Iowa sample provide tentative confirmation of this hypothesis. Congruent and incongruent groups on each of ten fac…
Activities and Role Definitions of Grassroots Party Officials
Recruitment Patterns Among Local Party Officials: A Model and Some Preliminary Findings in Selected Locales
An ongoing political system requires a continuing process of recruitment in order to maintain the small but active cadre of citizens who assume the primary responsibility for the operation of the system. These political activists are involved in recruiting the official leadership, campaigning for their election, and sometimes serve as governors of the system themselves. In American politics, the recruitment of political activists is effected thro…
The Development of Public Support for Parliament in Germany, 1951–59
Systems theorists introduced the concept of ‘support’ to permit explanations of political stability and instability. Yet most attempts to verify the existence of a relationship between support and stability empirically have dealt with wellestablished political systems, and have relied on data collected at one point in time. This paper reports an initial effort to examine the growth of support for a new political regime using a series of sample su…
Recruitment Patterns Among Local Party Officials: A Model and Some Preliminary Findings in Selected Locales
An ongoing political system requires a continuing process of recruitment in order to maintain the small but active cadre of citizens who assume the primary responsibility for the operation of the system. These political activists are involved in recruiting the official leadership, campaigning for their election, and sometimes serve as governors of the system themselves. In American politics, the recruitment of political activists is effected thro…
Perceptions and Expectations of the Legislature and Support for It
In this study, based on a random household probability sample of 1,001 Iowa adults, the basic hypothesis is that congruence between perceptions and expectations about the legislature leads to high support for the legislature, and incongruence between perceptions and expectations leads to low support for the legislature. Data from the Iowa sample provide tentative confirmation of this hypothesis. Congruent and incongruent groups on each of ten fac…
The Decay of Support for Monarchy and the Hitler Regime in the Federal Republic of Germany
Public support for the existing institutions of government depends in part on public perceptions of the alternatives. This assertion will not come as news in those parts of the world where changing the regime is a regular part of political life. In France, for example, where regimes have been numbered to distinguish them from each other, it is common knowledge that public evaluations of the Fourth Republic depended on comparisons with the Third, …
The Missing Links in Legislative Politics: Attentive Constituents
An Analysis of Consociational Democracy
This is a formal analytical assessment of Arend Lijphart's argument in The Politics of Accommodation that the structure of politics found in the Netherlands results in accommodation among elites and in democratic stability. The analysis leads to the conclusion that accommodation and stability will result only under certain specific conditions; one of these is a decrease over time in the number of political problems to be solved, and another is a …
When Senators and Publics Meet at the Environmental Protection Subcommittee
The hearings of the Senate Environmental Protection Subcommittee on reauthorizing the Clean Air Act of 1987 are analyzed and contrasted with Senate hearings of other committees to show how these hearings fit into the societal debate on clean air. The discourse of the hearings is analyzed by examining the language of the talk and by analyzing the style of argument. The discourse in these hearings is shown to be distinctive by comparing it with oth…
Ideas and action: A cognitive model of the Senate Agriculture Committee
Communal Ideology and Political Support
Activities and Role Definitions of Grassroots Party Officials
The senate agriculture committee produces a homeostat
The Political Domain Goes to Twitter: Hashtags, Retweets and URLs
The argument is twofold. One, the character of political communication on Twitter is sufficiently different from the general character of the Twitter stream, from the "firehose", as it is known that political communication should be considered as a separable domain of communication. Specifically, retweets, urls, and hashtags are used far more frequently in political communication than is true for the full stream of messages and that reflects comm…
The Reach of Politics via Twitter—Can That Be Real
If the reach of communication via Twitter is as great as it seems to be, that means a remarkable reconstruction of the public domain is in process. Until recently the public domain was the mass media and what they presented to their audiences. Now the audience has voice and is audience only in a new way. The potential consequences for the organization of politics are great. But there is the “if”. The report examines two challenges to the claim th…
Legislative Representation as Parallel-processing and Problem-Solving
Research on representation as congruence has reached a point of diminishing learning. Three criticisms of congruence or mandatory politics are reviewed. Representation as parallel-processing in problem-solving is introduced, defined, and illustrated by the work of the Senate Agriculture Committee. In addition to a review of the interaction between Senators and witnesses in two committee hearings, the paper examines one decision in detail. The wea…
Models of the economy implicit in public discourse
Mathematical Thinking about Politics
Activities and Role Definitions of Grassroots Party Officials
Recruitment Patterns Among Local Party Officials: A Model and Some Preliminary Findings in Selected Locales
An ongoing political system requires a continuing process of recruitment in order to maintain the small but active cadre of citizens who assume the primary responsibility for the operation of the system. These political activists are involved in recruiting the official leadership, campaigning for their election, and sometimes serve as governors of the system themselves. In American politics, the recruitment of political activists is effected thro…
Communal Ideology and Political Support
The Missing Links in Legislative Politics: Attentive Constituents
Perceptions and Expectations of the Legislature and Support for It
In this study, based on a random household probability sample of 1,001 Iowa adults, the basic hypothesis is that congruence between perceptions and expectations about the legislature leads to high support for the legislature, and incongruence between perceptions and expectations leads to low support for the legislature. Data from the Iowa sample provide tentative confirmation of this hypothesis. Congruent and incongruent groups on each of ten fac…
The Development of Public Support for Parliament in Germany, 1951–59
Systems theorists introduced the concept of ‘support’ to permit explanations of political stability and instability. Yet most attempts to verify the existence of a relationship between support and stability empirically have dealt with wellestablished political systems, and have relied on data collected at one point in time. This paper reports an initial effort to examine the growth of support for a new political regime using a series of sample su…
The Decay of Support for Monarchy and the Hitler Regime in the Federal Republic of Germany
Public support for the existing institutions of government depends in part on public perceptions of the alternatives. This assertion will not come as news in those parts of the world where changing the regime is a regular part of political life. In France, for example, where regimes have been numbered to distinguish them from each other, it is common knowledge that public evaluations of the Fourth Republic depended on comparisons with the Third, …
The Individual in Society
The Evolution of Public Perceptions of Adenauer as a Historic Leader: Test of a Mathematical Model of Attitude Change
G. R. Boynton, Gerhard Loewenberg, The Evolution of Public Perceptions of Adenauer as a Historic Leader: Test of a Mathematical Model of Attitude Change, Social Science History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 79-100
An Analysis of Consociational Democracy
This is a formal analytical assessment of Arend Lijphart's argument in The Politics of Accommodation that the structure of politics found in the Netherlands results in accommodation among elites and in democratic stability. The analysis leads to the conclusion that accommodation and stability will result only under certain specific conditions; one of these is a decrease over time in the number of political problems to be solved, and another is a …
Mathematical Thinking about Politics
Models of the economy implicit in public discourse
The senate agriculture committee produces a homeostat
Ideas and action: A cognitive model of the Senate Agriculture Committee
Guest editors' note: Cognition and political action
Guest editor's note: Cognition and political action
When Senators and Publics Meet at the Environmental Protection Subcommittee
The hearings of the Senate Environmental Protection Subcommittee on reauthorizing the Clean Air Act of 1987 are analyzed and contrasted with Senate hearings of other committees to show how these hearings fit into the societal debate on clean air. The discourse of the hearings is analyzed by examining the language of the talk and by analyzing the style of argument. The discourse in these hearings is shown to be distinctive by comparing it with oth…
Legislative Representation as Parallel-processing and Problem-Solving
Research on representation as congruence has reached a point of diminishing learning. Three criticisms of congruence or mandatory politics are reviewed. Representation as parallel-processing in problem-solving is introduced, defined, and illustrated by the work of the Senate Agriculture Committee. In addition to a review of the interaction between Senators and witnesses in two committee hearings, the paper examines one decision in detail. The wea…
Traveling Together on the Information Superhighway: Conversations About Politics, Language, and Distance Learning
Distance learning is on the horizon. Modern communications, following its exponential trajectory through telephone, telegraph, radio, film, television and computer networks, continues to transform education. Technology assisted learning promises a higher quality product, at lower cost, to larger numbers of people. Universal public education, as it approaches the 21st century, is at the threshold of a quantum leap forward
Hot Cognition
Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom – Edited by Regina Bendix and John Bendix
The Reach of Politics via Twitter—Can That Be Real
If the reach of communication via Twitter is as great as it seems to be, that means a remarkable reconstruction of the public domain is in process. Until recently the public domain was the mass media and what they presented to their audiences. Now the audience has voice and is audience only in a new way. The potential consequences for the organization of politics are great. But there is the “if”. The report examines two challenges to the claim th…
The Political Domain Goes to Twitter: Hashtags, Retweets and URLs
The argument is twofold. One, the character of political communication on Twitter is sufficiently different from the general character of the Twitter stream, from the "firehose", as it is known that political communication should be considered as a separable domain of communication. Specifically, retweets, urls, and hashtags are used far more frequently in political communication than is true for the full stream of messages and that reflects comm…
Co-Motion—Twitter Enters the Public Domain
Political communication is being dramatically altered by the new or social media. The new media has discovered this communication. The politicians have discovered this communication. The paper is an argument about what the public domain becomes as the new media becomes pervasive in society. The evidence used to buttress the argument is taken from 800 collections of streams of Twitter messages. Twitter is particularly useful as evidence because it…
Campaign 2016—The First Words and Their Audiences
When do citizens begin to attend to election campaigns for the presidency? The timing is changing as the infrastructure of communication changes. What could be said in the days when television was dominant is no longer a full answer given the emergence of new media as a vehicle for political communication. This report addresses the question of when by examining the messages posted to Twitter after Jeb Bush said he would consider running for the n…
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