Wayne L Francis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628873 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wayne L Francis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wayne L |
| FAMILY NAME | Francis |
| SIGNATURE | FRANCIS W L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 163 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1962 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Equilibrium Projections of the Consequences of Term Limits Upon Expected Tenure, Institutional Turnover, and Membership Experience
In this treatment we introduce a method for understanding and projecting the effects of term limits upon tenure in office and institutional turnover. Expected tenure is estimated from a geometric series specification, and expected turnover rates are estimated from a dynamic equilibrium model. The normal membership attrition rates of legislatures, together with the impact of term limits, do lead to a stable membership equilibrium. These equilibriu…
Position Shifting in Pursuit of Higher Office
Theory: A divergent platform spatial model is used to explain whether United States House members shift their legislative voting record toward a state party position as they approach a bid for the United States Senate. Hypotheses: Any position shifting by candidates should be toward the state position and should begin well before the Senate race. There should be more movement toward the state position by candidates than by losing candidates and n…
Retrospective Voting and Political Mobility
Research on political mobility has ignored the impact that the past policy decisions of officials may have on the probability of achieving a elected office. A large theoretical and empirical literature suggests that voters and party members will evaluate incumbents based on past behavior, that is, retrospectively. We test the extent nonincumbent candidates anticipate that voters in primaries and general elections will choose retrospectively, util…
House to Senate Career Movement in the U. S. States: The Significance of Selectivity
Why Do U. S. State Legislators Vacate Their Seats
Scaling legislative decision making: A methodological exercise
Costs and Benefits of Legislative Service in the American States
A principal cost to most state legislators is the number of days they must spend in the state capital. A principal benefit is their success rate on legislative proposals. Cost-benefit relationships are examined in a regression analysis of data collected for 99 chambers. The number of legislative workdays and member legislation passage rates are shown to be important factors in the extent to which legislators are satisfied with legislative outcome…
U. S. State Legislative Committees: Structure, Procedural Efficiency, and Party Control
Legislative Committee Systems, Optimal Committee Size, and The Costs of Decision Making
Organizational efficiency is a major problem in legislative committee systems. To attack this problem, an empirical method for identifying optimal committee size is developed and tested. It is shown that the optimum varies according to two other structural features, the use of subcommittees and the size of legislative chambers. The results lead to the conclusion that it makes more sense to develop the notion of "optimal committee system" rather t…
Problems in the Communication of Evaluation Research to Policy Makers1
Legislative Issues in the 50 States: Managing Complexity through Classification
In 1963 and in 1974 legislators were asked in a fifty-state random sample survey to name what they thought were most important issues of their sessions. Their responses provide the basis for classifying specific issues into twenty or more policy areas. Each issue was also described by the presence or absence of twenty-one contextual characteristics relating to the types of resources involved, the types of interest and conflict, and societal impac…
A Profile of Legislator Perceptions of Interest Group Behavior Relating To Legislative Issues in the States
T THIS JUNCTURE of inquiry into the nature of policy-making in the SUnited States, no one needs to be cautioned about the significance of interest group representatives in the formulation of public policy. To simply recognize their significance and perhaps a few assorted manifestations of their behavior, leaves us, of course, a long way from bringing their impact into sharp descriptive focus. The problem is complicated by the fact that interest g…
The Utility of Probabilities in Models: A Reply to Walter's Critical Note
The Role Concept in Legislatures: A Probability Model and a Note on Cognitive Structure
Influence and Interaction in a State Legislative Body
The purpose of this article is to investigate distributions of influence in a legislative body, to spell out the resulting hypotheses, to introduce a method for estimating the degree of interaction between legislators, and to demonstrate the relevance of specific indicators to the study of legislative behavior. The methodological task falls somewhere between the small group laboratory situation and the more complex arena of community decision-mak…
U. S. State Legislative Committees: Structure, Procedural Efficiency, and Party Control
Equilibrium Projections of the Consequences of Term Limits Upon Expected Tenure, Institutional Turnover, and Membership Experience
In this treatment we introduce a method for understanding and projecting the effects of term limits upon tenure in office and institutional turnover. Expected tenure is estimated from a geometric series specification, and expected turnover rates are estimated from a dynamic equilibrium model. The normal membership attrition rates of legislatures, together with the impact of term limits, do lead to a stable membership equilibrium. These equilibriu…
Position Shifting in Pursuit of Higher Office
Theory: A divergent platform spatial model is used to explain whether United States House members shift their legislative voting record toward a state party position as they approach a bid for the United States Senate. Hypotheses: Any position shifting by candidates should be toward the state position and should begin well before the Senate race. There should be more movement toward the state position by candidates than by losing candidates and n…
Why Do U. S. State Legislators Vacate Their Seats
Retrospective Voting and Political Mobility
Research on political mobility has ignored the impact that the past policy decisions of officials may have on the probability of achieving a elected office. A large theoretical and empirical literature suggests that voters and party members will evaluate incumbents based on past behavior, that is, retrospectively. We test the extent nonincumbent candidates anticipate that voters in primaries and general elections will choose retrospectively, util…
House to Senate Career Movement in the U. S. States: The Significance of Selectivity
Influence and Interaction in a State Legislative Body
The purpose of this article is to investigate distributions of influence in a legislative body, to spell out the resulting hypotheses, to introduce a method for estimating the degree of interaction between legislators, and to demonstrate the relevance of specific indicators to the study of legislative behavior. The methodological task falls somewhere between the small group laboratory situation and the more complex arena of community decision-mak…
Costs and Benefits of Legislative Service in the American States
A principal cost to most state legislators is the number of days they must spend in the state capital. A principal benefit is their success rate on legislative proposals. Cost-benefit relationships are examined in a regression analysis of data collected for 99 chambers. The number of legislative workdays and member legislation passage rates are shown to be important factors in the extent to which legislators are satisfied with legislative outcome…
Problems in the Communication of Evaluation Research to Policy Makers1
Legislative Committee Systems, Optimal Committee Size, and The Costs of Decision Making
Organizational efficiency is a major problem in legislative committee systems. To attack this problem, an empirical method for identifying optimal committee size is developed and tested. It is shown that the optimum varies according to two other structural features, the use of subcommittees and the size of legislative chambers. The results lead to the conclusion that it makes more sense to develop the notion of "optimal committee system" rather t…
Legislative Issues in the 50 States: Managing Complexity through Classification
In 1963 and in 1974 legislators were asked in a fifty-state random sample survey to name what they thought were most important issues of their sessions. Their responses provide the basis for classifying specific issues into twenty or more policy areas. Each issue was also described by the presence or absence of twenty-one contextual characteristics relating to the types of resources involved, the types of interest and conflict, and societal impac…
A Profile of Legislator Perceptions of Interest Group Behavior Relating To Legislative Issues in the States
T THIS JUNCTURE of inquiry into the nature of policy-making in the SUnited States, no one needs to be cautioned about the significance of interest group representatives in the formulation of public policy. To simply recognize their significance and perhaps a few assorted manifestations of their behavior, leaves us, of course, a long way from bringing their impact into sharp descriptive focus. The problem is complicated by the fact that interest g…
The Role Concept in Legislatures: A Probability Model and a Note on Cognitive Structure
Influence and Interaction in a State Legislative Body
The purpose of this article is to investigate distributions of influence in a legislative body, to spell out the resulting hypotheses, to introduce a method for estimating the degree of interaction between legislators, and to demonstrate the relevance of specific indicators to the study of legislative behavior. The methodological task falls somewhere between the small group laboratory situation and the more complex arena of community decision-mak…
The Role Concept in Legislatures: A Probability Model and a Note on Cognitive Structure
The Utility of Probabilities in Models: A Reply to Walter's Critical Note
A Profile of Legislator Perceptions of Interest Group Behavior Relating To Legislative Issues in the States
T THIS JUNCTURE of inquiry into the nature of policy-making in the SUnited States, no one needs to be cautioned about the significance of interest group representatives in the formulation of public policy. To simply recognize their significance and perhaps a few assorted manifestations of their behavior, leaves us, of course, a long way from bringing their impact into sharp descriptive focus. The problem is complicated by the fact that interest g…
Problems in the Communication of Evaluation Research to Policy Makers1
Legislative Issues in the 50 States: Managing Complexity through Classification
In 1963 and in 1974 legislators were asked in a fifty-state random sample survey to name what they thought were most important issues of their sessions. Their responses provide the basis for classifying specific issues into twenty or more policy areas. Each issue was also described by the presence or absence of twenty-one contextual characteristics relating to the types of resources involved, the types of interest and conflict, and societal impac…
U. S. State Legislative Committees: Structure, Procedural Efficiency, and Party Control
Legislative Committee Systems, Optimal Committee Size, and The Costs of Decision Making
Organizational efficiency is a major problem in legislative committee systems. To attack this problem, an empirical method for identifying optimal committee size is developed and tested. It is shown that the optimum varies according to two other structural features, the use of subcommittees and the size of legislative chambers. The results lead to the conclusion that it makes more sense to develop the notion of "optimal committee system" rather t…
Scaling legislative decision making: A methodological exercise
Costs and Benefits of Legislative Service in the American States
A principal cost to most state legislators is the number of days they must spend in the state capital. A principal benefit is their success rate on legislative proposals. Cost-benefit relationships are examined in a regression analysis of data collected for 99 chambers. The number of legislative workdays and member legislation passage rates are shown to be important factors in the extent to which legislators are satisfied with legislative outcome…
Why Do U. S. State Legislators Vacate Their Seats
House to Senate Career Movement in the U. S. States: The Significance of Selectivity
Retrospective Voting and Political Mobility
Research on political mobility has ignored the impact that the past policy decisions of officials may have on the probability of achieving a elected office. A large theoretical and empirical literature suggests that voters and party members will evaluate incumbents based on past behavior, that is, retrospectively. We test the extent nonincumbent candidates anticipate that voters in primaries and general elections will choose retrospectively, util…
Position Shifting in Pursuit of Higher Office
Theory: A divergent platform spatial model is used to explain whether United States House members shift their legislative voting record toward a state party position as they approach a bid for the United States Senate. Hypotheses: Any position shifting by candidates should be toward the state position and should begin well before the Senate race. There should be more movement toward the state position by candidates than by losing candidates and n…
Equilibrium Projections of the Consequences of Term Limits Upon Expected Tenure, Institutional Turnover, and Membership Experience
In this treatment we introduce a method for understanding and projecting the effects of term limits upon tenure in office and institutional turnover. Expected tenure is estimated from a geometric series specification, and expected turnover rates are estimated from a dynamic equilibrium model. The normal membership attrition rates of legislatures, together with the impact of term limits, do lead to a stable membership equilibrium. These equilibriu…
Political science (14 works) · Law (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Legislature (10 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (8 works) · State (computer science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works)