Douglas B Harris
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876471 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas B Harris |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas B |
| FAMILY NAME | Harris |
| SIGNATURE | HARRIS D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Maryland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump
Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans' trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War with Government , the political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although distrust of authority is deeply rooted in American culture, it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it. Since the postwar era conservative leaders have deliberately and strategically und…
Long Red Thread: How Democratic Dominance Gave Way to Republican Advantage in US House Elections
In Suspense: Donald Trump's Efforts to Undermine Public Trust in Democracy
Choosing the Leader: Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives
Meinke, Scott R. Leadership Organizations in the House of Representatives: Party Participation and Partisan Politics
The Strategic Promotion of Distrust in Government in the Tea Party Age
This paper argues that distrust in government is not an inadvertent byproduct of economic change, scandals, and cultural and identity politics, but rather grows out of strategic efforts to promote and harness it for political purposes. Elites encouraging distrust interact with grassroots movements, which they can only loosely direct and control. Identifying four strategic benefits of distrust: organizational, electoral, institutional and policy, …
Governing with the Polls
Leadership Choice and Party Performance: The Democratic Takeover of the 110 th Congress—Editor's Introduction
Having been out of power in the House since 1994 and in the Senate for 10 of those 12 years as well, congressional Democrats' takeover of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections was an important moment in American political history. Having won the House and, somewhat more unexpectedly, the Senate by a bare majority, the Democrats recaptured control of an entire branch of the federal government for the first time since Bill Clinton left the White H…
Middlemen No More? Emergent Patterns in Congressional Leadership Selection
For a quarter-century, conservative Republicans have used the “San Francisco liberal” label to place Democrats as outside the American mainstream. Imagine their dismay as the 110thCongress opened in January 2007 and Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat well to the left of most of her party, ascended to the podium as speaker of the United States House of Representatives. This was, to be sure, a departure. Traditionally, House Democrats had selec…
Goal Salience and the 2006 Race for House Majority Leader
In intraparty congressional leadership races, the characteristics of candidates and the nature of their campaigns increase the salience of particular legislator goals and, in doing so, influence legislators' support of particular leadership candidates. Using multinomial logit regression analysis, the authors test this “goal salience” theory to determine what factors predict individual legislators' commitments to candidates in the 2006 House Repub…
Legislative Parties and Leadership Choice: Confrontation or Accommodation in the 1989 Gingrich-Madigan Whip Race
Treating the selection of party leaders as strategic choices legislators make to advance party goals, this article examines conflict and consensus in leadership selection. Analysis of unique archival data from Newt Gingrich's 87 to 85 vote victory over Ed Madigan in the 1989 Whip race reveals that ideology, terms in office, and a prior commitment to majority building significantly determined individual legislators' support for Gingrich's confront…
Orchestrating Party Talk: A Party-Based View of One-Minute Speeches in the House of Representatives
Previous studies of House members' speech-giving behavior treat the behavior as a product of members' individual goals. By uncovering leadership memoranda soliciting member participation in one-minute speech giving, I find, first, that parties significantly structure one-minute speech giving, with party-orchestrated message campaigns accounting for about one-third of the speeches given. Second, I find that a party-based explanation illuminates in…
House Majority Party Leaders' Uses of Public Opinion Information
Using archival and interview evidence, this article demonstrates that, in the 1980s and 1990s, House Democratic leaders made frequent and sophisticated use of polls to monitor trends in public opinion, to construct party images and "craft talk," and to strategically deploy favorable poll results to aid in legislative coalition building. Comparing this recovered history of Democratic Party leaders' poll use to House Republican leaders' poll use, t…
Torn and Frayed: Congressional Norms and Party Switching in an Era of Reform
The Republican Takeover of Congress . Dean McSweeney , John E. Owens Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s . Herbert F. Weisberg , Samuel C. Patterson
The Rise of the Public Speakership
Journal Article The Rise of the Public Speakership Get access Douglas B. Harris Douglas B. Harris DOUGLAS B. HARRIS is visiting assistant professor of political science at The Johns Hopkins University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 193–212, https://doi.org/10.2307/2657853 Published: 15 February 2013
Choosing the Leader: Leadership Elections in the U. S. House of Representatives
How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody's classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have sought leadership positions from the 1960s to the present - data including whip tallies, public and private vote commitments, interviews, and media accounts - to provide new insights into how the selec…
Orchestrating Party Talk: A Party-Based View of One-Minute Speeches in the House of Representatives
Previous studies of House members' speech-giving behavior treat the behavior as a product of members' individual goals. By uncovering leadership memoranda soliciting member participation in one-minute speech giving, I find, first, that parties significantly structure one-minute speech giving, with party-orchestrated message campaigns accounting for about one-third of the speeches given. Second, I find that a party-based explanation illuminates in…
The Rise of the Public Speakership
Journal Article The Rise of the Public Speakership Get access Douglas B. Harris Douglas B. Harris DOUGLAS B. HARRIS is visiting assistant professor of political science at The Johns Hopkins University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 193–212, https://doi.org/10.2307/2657853 Published: 15 February 2013
Goal Salience and the 2006 Race for House Majority Leader
In intraparty congressional leadership races, the characteristics of candidates and the nature of their campaigns increase the salience of particular legislator goals and, in doing so, influence legislators' support of particular leadership candidates. Using multinomial logit regression analysis, the authors test this “goal salience” theory to determine what factors predict individual legislators' commitments to candidates in the 2006 House Repub…
Legislative Parties and Leadership Choice: Confrontation or Accommodation in the 1989 Gingrich-Madigan Whip Race
Treating the selection of party leaders as strategic choices legislators make to advance party goals, this article examines conflict and consensus in leadership selection. Analysis of unique archival data from Newt Gingrich's 87 to 85 vote victory over Ed Madigan in the 1989 Whip race reveals that ideology, terms in office, and a prior commitment to majority building significantly determined individual legislators' support for Gingrich's confront…
In Suspense: Donald Trump's Efforts to Undermine Public Trust in Democracy
The Strategic Promotion of Distrust in Government in the Tea Party Age
This paper argues that distrust in government is not an inadvertent byproduct of economic change, scandals, and cultural and identity politics, but rather grows out of strategic efforts to promote and harness it for political purposes. Elites encouraging distrust interact with grassroots movements, which they can only loosely direct and control. Identifying four strategic benefits of distrust: organizational, electoral, institutional and policy, …
Middlemen No More? Emergent Patterns in Congressional Leadership Selection
For a quarter-century, conservative Republicans have used the “San Francisco liberal” label to place Democrats as outside the American mainstream. Imagine their dismay as the 110thCongress opened in January 2007 and Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat well to the left of most of her party, ascended to the podium as speaker of the United States House of Representatives. This was, to be sure, a departure. Traditionally, House Democrats had selec…
Choosing the Leader: Leadership Elections in the U. S. House of Representatives
How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody's classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have sought leadership positions from the 1960s to the present - data including whip tallies, public and private vote commitments, interviews, and media accounts - to provide new insights into how the selec…
The Rise of the Public Speakership
Journal Article The Rise of the Public Speakership Get access Douglas B. Harris Douglas B. Harris DOUGLAS B. HARRIS is visiting assistant professor of political science at The Johns Hopkins University. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 113, Issue 2, Summer 1998, Pages 193–212, https://doi.org/10.2307/2657853 Published: 15 February 2013
The Republican Takeover of Congress . Dean McSweeney , John E. Owens Great Theatre: The American Congress in the 1990s . Herbert F. Weisberg , Samuel C. Patterson
Torn and Frayed: Congressional Norms and Party Switching in an Era of Reform
Orchestrating Party Talk: A Party-Based View of One-Minute Speeches in the House of Representatives
Previous studies of House members' speech-giving behavior treat the behavior as a product of members' individual goals. By uncovering leadership memoranda soliciting member participation in one-minute speech giving, I find, first, that parties significantly structure one-minute speech giving, with party-orchestrated message campaigns accounting for about one-third of the speeches given. Second, I find that a party-based explanation illuminates in…
House Majority Party Leaders' Uses of Public Opinion Information
Using archival and interview evidence, this article demonstrates that, in the 1980s and 1990s, House Democratic leaders made frequent and sophisticated use of polls to monitor trends in public opinion, to construct party images and "craft talk," and to strategically deploy favorable poll results to aid in legislative coalition building. Comparing this recovered history of Democratic Party leaders' poll use to House Republican leaders' poll use, t…
Legislative Parties and Leadership Choice: Confrontation or Accommodation in the 1989 Gingrich-Madigan Whip Race
Treating the selection of party leaders as strategic choices legislators make to advance party goals, this article examines conflict and consensus in leadership selection. Analysis of unique archival data from Newt Gingrich's 87 to 85 vote victory over Ed Madigan in the 1989 Whip race reveals that ideology, terms in office, and a prior commitment to majority building significantly determined individual legislators' support for Gingrich's confront…
Goal Salience and the 2006 Race for House Majority Leader
In intraparty congressional leadership races, the characteristics of candidates and the nature of their campaigns increase the salience of particular legislator goals and, in doing so, influence legislators' support of particular leadership candidates. Using multinomial logit regression analysis, the authors test this “goal salience” theory to determine what factors predict individual legislators' commitments to candidates in the 2006 House Repub…
Leadership Choice and Party Performance: The Democratic Takeover of the 110 th Congress—Editor's Introduction
Having been out of power in the House since 1994 and in the Senate for 10 of those 12 years as well, congressional Democrats' takeover of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections was an important moment in American political history. Having won the House and, somewhat more unexpectedly, the Senate by a bare majority, the Democrats recaptured control of an entire branch of the federal government for the first time since Bill Clinton left the White H…
Middlemen No More? Emergent Patterns in Congressional Leadership Selection
For a quarter-century, conservative Republicans have used the “San Francisco liberal” label to place Democrats as outside the American mainstream. Imagine their dismay as the 110thCongress opened in January 2007 and Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat well to the left of most of her party, ascended to the podium as speaker of the United States House of Representatives. This was, to be sure, a departure. Traditionally, House Democrats had selec…
Governing with the Polls
The Strategic Promotion of Distrust in Government in the Tea Party Age
This paper argues that distrust in government is not an inadvertent byproduct of economic change, scandals, and cultural and identity politics, but rather grows out of strategic efforts to promote and harness it for political purposes. Elites encouraging distrust interact with grassroots movements, which they can only loosely direct and control. Identifying four strategic benefits of distrust: organizational, electoral, institutional and policy, …
Meinke, Scott R. Leadership Organizations in the House of Representatives: Party Participation and Partisan Politics
Choosing the Leader: Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives
In Suspense: Donald Trump's Efforts to Undermine Public Trust in Democracy
At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump
Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans' trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War with Government , the political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although distrust of authority is deeply rooted in American culture, it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from it. Since the postwar era conservative leaders have deliberately and strategically und…
Long Red Thread: How Democratic Dominance Gave Way to Republican Advantage in US House Elections
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