David Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 3860150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Drake University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5835-9652 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Electoral accountability, distributive conflict, and probabilistic voting
Why participation? Institutions and inequality in urban politics
In land use policymaking, institutions for resident participation are common but often associated with stark inequalities. We argue that the observed connection between participatory institutions and political inequality arises due to the circumstances in which participatory institutions are established – not due to participation itself. In a formal model, residents of two districts compete to oppose a locally costly (but socially beneficial) pro…
Persistent unilateral action
Many believe that weaker legal constraints make unilateral action easier to reverse than legislation. Yet in some cases, unilateralism survives a successor's determined opposition. I argue that legislative persistence and unilateral transience may arise not only from differences in legal status but also from a selection effect: unilateralism and subsequent rescission can both stem from weak underlying policy-demanding groups. But if unilateralism…
The Dallas Story
From Classical to Progressive Liberalism
Early support for expert policy making through administrative agencies was rooted in concerns over political power. In a context of formal universal male suffrage, late nineteenth-century liberals (typically well-educated, urban professionals) opposed policies to regulate business out of fear of working-class radicalism. Yet by the 1910s, liberals supported economic regulation—through administrative agencies. We use a formal model to show how pot…
Fraud, Trusts and Trusting
Conveyances with informal agreements to hold for the benefit of the transferor initially proved efficacious in avoiding statutory forfeiture provisions. In the late sixteenth century, the equity side of the Exchequer developed a capacious doctrine of revenue fraud designed to capture such informal arrangements and to subject the transferor to liability for crown forfeitures. Initially drawing inspiration from the 'badges of fraud' in the Statute …
Anticipating Unilateralism
Understanding unilateralism may require examining the conditions that precede and motivate the president's action. But if members of Congress can anticipate unilateral action, their failure to legislate cannot be explained by "gridlock intervals" in a standard spatial model. I argue instead that they may willingly surrender authority to the president to head off potential attacks from voters or interest groups. This helps to explain the president…
The Nimby problem
Nimbyism is widely thought to arise from an inherent tradeoff between localism and efficiency in government: because many development projects have spatially concentrated costs and diffuse benefits, local residents naturally oppose proposed projects. But why cannot project developers (with large potential profits) compensate local residents? We argue that local regulatory institutions effectively require developers to expend resources that cannot…
Construction and Execution of Trusts in Chancery, c . 1660–1750
Relatively little has been written about the detailed workings of the court of chancery after the restoration. Even less is known about the doctrines of the chancery in the eighteenth century. Yet social historians of this period have relied on legal sources to generate a narrative which suggests that the landed classes were instrumental in determining the content of the rules governing family settlements. This article seeks to situate that narra…
A high-resolution hydrogen isotope record of behenic acid for the past 16 kyr in the northeastern United States
Reason, Sentiment, and Equality in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This essay examines how or why Huck came to recognize the humanity of the slave Jim. Christian principles and those of the Declaration of Independence play little or no explicit part in the change. In addition, a careful examination of the dispute over King Solomon and language in chapter 14 suggests that Jim’s capacity for reason did not prompt the change. Several subsequent episodes reveal that Huck’s recognition of Jim’s humanity is rooted rat…
Law, Liberty and the Constitution
Harry Potter's book is an anecdotal history of English common law. Through a series of engaging flashpoints in English constitutional and political history, Potter reflects upon the contours of Eng
Going 'Where Angels Fear to Tread
Journal Article Going ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’: How Effective was the Backbench Business Committee in the 2010−2012 Parliamentary Session? Get access David H. Foster David H. Foster * Formerly at the Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, London, UK *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 116–134, https://doi.or…
Threshold faces
Since its re-emergence in 2000, and its re-exhibition as a gallery film as opposed to a piece of cinema, Marin Karmitz's film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Comédie - filmed in 1966 in close collaboration with Beckett himself - has been recognized as an important and even canonical work of avant-garde film. Along with Beckett's other work for the screen, it foreshadowed some prominent aesthetic tendencies that emerged in artists' film and video i…
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Spatial aesthetics in the film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Comedie
This essay combines some fundamental elements of film theory and visual theory with close observation to construct a detailed analysis of the representation of space in Comédie (1966) — the film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's play of the same name — directed by Marin Karmitz in collaboration with Beckett. The analysis begins by contemplating the spatial qualities of the blank screen that opens the film, and proceeds to chart the way in which our …
A Dubya in the Headlights
The changing landscape
Urbanization, an important driver of climate change and pollution, alters both biotic and abiotic ecosystem properties within, surrounding, and even at great distances from urban areas. As a result, research challenges and environmental problems must be tackled at local, regional, and global scales. Ecosystem responses to land change are complex and interacting, occurring on all spatial and temporal scales as a consequence of connectivity of reso…
Steel Magnolias
Using Holsat to evaluate tourist satisfaction at destinations
Le Jardin et la nature
Journal Article Le Jardin et la nature: ordre et variété dans la littérature de la Renaissance Get access David Foster David Foster University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 233–234, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni133 Published: 01 April 2005
Temporal Patterns in Student Authorship
While recent studies have demonstrated the importance of material structures in shaping writers’ roles and practices in academic settings, relatively little attention has been focused on temporality, which exists as an embedded aspect of all such structures
The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation
Recognition of the importance of land-use history and its legacies in most ecological systems has been a major factor driving the recent focus on human activity as a legitimate and essential subject of environmental science. Ecologists, conservationists, and natural resource policymakers now recognize that the legacies of land-use activities continue to influence ecosystem structure and function for decades or centuries—or even longer—after those…
Advanced Generalist Practice
An enormous challenge faces social work educators as we prepare for the twenty-first century. Most significant is the scramble to understand and respond to contemporary challenges, notably managed health care and welfare reform. The authors present the conceptualization and implementation of an advanced generalist concentration curriculum. Teaching strategies and assignments in a MSW academic and field curriculum are used to illustrate the integr…
The Nimby problem
Nimbyism is widely thought to arise from an inherent tradeoff between localism and efficiency in government: because many development projects have spatially concentrated costs and diffuse benefits, local residents naturally oppose proposed projects. But why cannot project developers (with large potential profits) compensate local residents? We argue that local regulatory institutions effectively require developers to expend resources that cannot…
Using Holsat to evaluate tourist satisfaction at destinations
Anticipating Unilateralism
Understanding unilateralism may require examining the conditions that precede and motivate the president's action. But if members of Congress can anticipate unilateral action, their failure to legislate cannot be explained by "gridlock intervals" in a standard spatial model. I argue instead that they may willingly surrender authority to the president to head off potential attacks from voters or interest groups. This helps to explain the president…
Taming the Father
This article demonstrates the radical character of Locke's attack on patriarchalism in the TwoTreatises of Government, in part by showing that that attack implies the rejection of the natural and divine order to which patriarchalism appealed to justify itself. In this way, Locke's attack on patriarchalism, which prepared the way for his individualistic liberal politics, is also shown to be an important part of his solution to the political proble…
Going 'Where Angels Fear to Tread
Journal Article Going ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’: How Effective was the Backbench Business Committee in the 2010−2012 Parliamentary Session? Get access David H. Foster David H. Foster * Formerly at the Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, London, UK *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 116–134, https://doi.or…
From Classical to Progressive Liberalism
Early support for expert policy making through administrative agencies was rooted in concerns over political power. In a context of formal universal male suffrage, late nineteenth-century liberals (typically well-educated, urban professionals) opposed policies to regulate business out of fear of working-class radicalism. Yet by the 1910s, liberals supported economic regulation—through administrative agencies. We use a formal model to show how pot…
Reason, Sentiment, and Equality in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This essay examines how or why Huck came to recognize the humanity of the slave Jim. Christian principles and those of the Declaration of Independence play little or no explicit part in the change. In addition, a careful examination of the dispute over King Solomon and language in chapter 14 suggests that Jim’s capacity for reason did not prompt the change. Several subsequent episodes reveal that Huck’s recognition of Jim’s humanity is rooted rat…
Advanced Generalist Practice
An enormous challenge faces social work educators as we prepare for the twenty-first century. Most significant is the scramble to understand and respond to contemporary challenges, notably managed health care and welfare reform. The authors present the conceptualization and implementation of an advanced generalist concentration curriculum. Teaching strategies and assignments in a MSW academic and field curriculum are used to illustrate the integr…
Country-Region Index
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The design of hybrid cushion cars
The new American car safety legislation, Standard 208, is “performance‐based” in specifying a car crash speed up to which the occupants will not be injured but no indication is given how to do it. The two leading contenders for the actualization are the inflatable air‐bag and The Hybrid Cushion Car invented by the author. The principle of the Hybrid Cushion Car is to combine safety harnesses with deep internal paddings. The design is fully optimi…
David Foster
Books in Review
A Government of Laws
Taming the Father
This article demonstrates the radical character of Locke's attack on patriarchalism in the TwoTreatises of Government, in part by showing that that attack implies the rejection of the natural and divine order to which patriarchalism appealed to justify itself. In this way, Locke's attack on patriarchalism, which prepared the way for his individualistic liberal politics, is also shown to be an important part of his solution to the political proble…
Country-Region Index
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Advanced Generalist Practice
An enormous challenge faces social work educators as we prepare for the twenty-first century. Most significant is the scramble to understand and respond to contemporary challenges, notably managed health care and welfare reform. The authors present the conceptualization and implementation of an advanced generalist concentration curriculum. Teaching strategies and assignments in a MSW academic and field curriculum are used to illustrate the integr…
The Importance of Land-Use Legacies to Ecology and Conservation
Recognition of the importance of land-use history and its legacies in most ecological systems has been a major factor driving the recent focus on human activity as a legitimate and essential subject of environmental science. Ecologists, conservationists, and natural resource policymakers now recognize that the legacies of land-use activities continue to influence ecosystem structure and function for decades or centuries—or even longer—after those…
Temporal Patterns in Student Authorship
While recent studies have demonstrated the importance of material structures in shaping writers’ roles and practices in academic settings, relatively little attention has been focused on temporality, which exists as an embedded aspect of all such structures
Le Jardin et la nature
Journal Article Le Jardin et la nature: ordre et variété dans la littérature de la Renaissance Get access David Foster David Foster University of Lancaster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar French Studies, Volume 59, Issue 2, April 2005, Pages 233–234, https://doi.org/10.1093/fs/kni133 Published: 01 April 2005
Using Holsat to evaluate tourist satisfaction at destinations
Steel Magnolias
The changing landscape
Urbanization, an important driver of climate change and pollution, alters both biotic and abiotic ecosystem properties within, surrounding, and even at great distances from urban areas. As a result, research challenges and environmental problems must be tackled at local, regional, and global scales. Ecosystem responses to land change are complex and interacting, occurring on all spatial and temporal scales as a consequence of connectivity of reso…
A Dubya in the Headlights
Spatial aesthetics in the film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Comedie
This essay combines some fundamental elements of film theory and visual theory with close observation to construct a detailed analysis of the representation of space in Comédie (1966) — the film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's play of the same name — directed by Marin Karmitz in collaboration with Beckett. The analysis begins by contemplating the spatial qualities of the blank screen that opens the film, and proceeds to chart the way in which our …
DVD/Blu-ray Reviews
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Threshold faces
Since its re-emergence in 2000, and its re-exhibition as a gallery film as opposed to a piece of cinema, Marin Karmitz's film adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Comédie - filmed in 1966 in close collaboration with Beckett himself - has been recognized as an important and even canonical work of avant-garde film. Along with Beckett's other work for the screen, it foreshadowed some prominent aesthetic tendencies that emerged in artists' film and video i…
Law, Liberty and the Constitution
Harry Potter's book is an anecdotal history of English common law. Through a series of engaging flashpoints in English constitutional and political history, Potter reflects upon the contours of Eng
Going 'Where Angels Fear to Tread
Journal Article Going ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’: How Effective was the Backbench Business Committee in the 2010−2012 Parliamentary Session? Get access David H. Foster David H. Foster * Formerly at the Department of Politics, Birkbeck College, London, UK *Correspondence: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 68, Issue 1, January 2015, Pages 116–134, https://doi.or…
A high-resolution hydrogen isotope record of behenic acid for the past 16 kyr in the northeastern United States
Reason, Sentiment, and Equality in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
This essay examines how or why Huck came to recognize the humanity of the slave Jim. Christian principles and those of the Declaration of Independence play little or no explicit part in the change. In addition, a careful examination of the dispute over King Solomon and language in chapter 14 suggests that Jim’s capacity for reason did not prompt the change. Several subsequent episodes reveal that Huck’s recognition of Jim’s humanity is rooted rat…
Construction and Execution of Trusts in Chancery, c . 1660–1750
Relatively little has been written about the detailed workings of the court of chancery after the restoration. Even less is known about the doctrines of the chancery in the eighteenth century. Yet social historians of this period have relied on legal sources to generate a narrative which suggests that the landed classes were instrumental in determining the content of the rules governing family settlements. This article seeks to situate that narra…
Anticipating Unilateralism
Understanding unilateralism may require examining the conditions that precede and motivate the president's action. But if members of Congress can anticipate unilateral action, their failure to legislate cannot be explained by "gridlock intervals" in a standard spatial model. I argue instead that they may willingly surrender authority to the president to head off potential attacks from voters or interest groups. This helps to explain the president…
The Nimby problem
Nimbyism is widely thought to arise from an inherent tradeoff between localism and efficiency in government: because many development projects have spatially concentrated costs and diffuse benefits, local residents naturally oppose proposed projects. But why cannot project developers (with large potential profits) compensate local residents? We argue that local regulatory institutions effectively require developers to expend resources that cannot…
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