Lawrence Jacobs
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence Jacobs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence |
| FAMILY NAME | Jacobs |
| SIGNATURE | JACOBS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
We Designed Donald Trump's Election
The postmortems of the 2024 election need to start before Election Day, with the institutional developments that loaded the dice for Donald Trump's nomination despite the opposition of senior Republican Party officials who declared him a threat to America’s national interest and security. Primary contests—and not general elections—were the decisive decision points in accepting a candidate who had been indicted, convicted, and impeached for high c…
Western University Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Medical Education Program Highlights Our UME program mission is to develop generalist physicians as socially responsible leaders, collaborative decision makers, and lifelong adaptive learners. Our program uses a distributed model with core learning at London and Windsor campuses, and clinical learning delivered across affiliated community sites throughout Southwestern Ontario. Our model of curriculum delivery provides students with exposure to di…
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America's Political Crisis: The Unsustainable State in a Time of Unraveling
The American economy and financial system is experiencing upheaval on a scale not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. A number of the largest and most established banks and investment firms have declared bankruptcy (including Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers) or been taken over at fire-sale rates (as was the case, for example, with Merrill Lynch). In the fall of 2008, Congress and the U.S. Treasury along with the Federal Reserve Bank co…
Response to Stephen Earl Bennett
We are gratified that Prof. Bennett has now read the full Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy report that he critiqued in the January 2006 issue of PS , but we find his response puzzling. He characterizes our report as “illustrative of many political scientists' left-wing tilt” and buttresses his assertion, not by analyzing the report itself, but by referring to studies of the political leanings of college faculty. Clearly, the test o…
The Evolution of Presidential Polling
Journal Article The Evolution of Presidential Polling Get access The Evolution of Presidential Polling by Robert M. Eisinger. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 228 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.00. Lawrence Jacobs Lawrence Jacobs University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 213–215, https://doi.org/10.2307/20202332 Pu…
Culture as an explanatory variable for the Japanese innovative processes
Explores the influence of Japan's culture on its innovative strengths and weaknesses. Indicates that Japan is good at evolutionary and process innovation but not so hot on inventing. Links this to Hofstede's cultural dimensions, comparing Japanese with US results. Attempts to link Japanese cultural attributes to rice and its consequent agricultural system and associated human relations. Devotes a section each to Japanese collectivism, power, unce…
The Evolution of Presidential Polling
Journal Article The Evolution of Presidential Polling Get access The Evolution of Presidential Polling by Robert M. Eisinger. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 228 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.00. Lawrence Jacobs Lawrence Jacobs University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 213–215, https://doi.org/10.2307/20202332 Pu…
America's Political Crisis: The Unsustainable State in a Time of Unraveling
The American economy and financial system is experiencing upheaval on a scale not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. A number of the largest and most established banks and investment firms have declared bankruptcy (including Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers) or been taken over at fire-sale rates (as was the case, for example, with Merrill Lynch). In the fall of 2008, Congress and the U.S. Treasury along with the Federal Reserve Bank co…
Culture as an explanatory variable for the Japanese innovative processes
Explores the influence of Japan's culture on its innovative strengths and weaknesses. Indicates that Japan is good at evolutionary and process innovation but not so hot on inventing. Links this to Hofstede's cultural dimensions, comparing Japanese with US results. Attempts to link Japanese cultural attributes to rice and its consequent agricultural system and associated human relations. Devotes a section each to Japanese collectivism, power, unce…
The Evolution of Presidential Polling
Journal Article The Evolution of Presidential Polling Get access The Evolution of Presidential Polling by Robert M. Eisinger. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2003. 228 pp. Cloth, $60.00; paper, $22.00. Lawrence Jacobs Lawrence Jacobs University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 119, Issue 1, Spring 2004, Pages 213–215, https://doi.org/10.2307/20202332 Pu…
Response to Stephen Earl Bennett
We are gratified that Prof. Bennett has now read the full Task Force on Inequality and American Democracy report that he critiqued in the January 2006 issue of PS , but we find his response puzzling. He characterizes our report as “illustrative of many political scientists' left-wing tilt” and buttresses his assertion, not by analyzing the report itself, but by referring to studies of the political leanings of college faculty. Clearly, the test o…
America's Political Crisis: The Unsustainable State in a Time of Unraveling
The American economy and financial system is experiencing upheaval on a scale not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s. A number of the largest and most established banks and investment firms have declared bankruptcy (including Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers) or been taken over at fire-sale rates (as was the case, for example, with Merrill Lynch). In the fall of 2008, Congress and the U.S. Treasury along with the Federal Reserve Bank co…
In the next issue of PS
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Western University Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry
Medical Education Program Highlights Our UME program mission is to develop generalist physicians as socially responsible leaders, collaborative decision makers, and lifelong adaptive learners. Our program uses a distributed model with core learning at London and Windsor campuses, and clinical learning delivered across affiliated community sites throughout Southwestern Ontario. Our model of curriculum delivery provides students with exposure to di…
We Designed Donald Trump's Election
The postmortems of the 2024 election need to start before Election Day, with the institutional developments that loaded the dice for Donald Trump's nomination despite the opposition of senior Republican Party officials who declared him a threat to America’s national interest and security. Primary contests—and not general elections—were the decisive decision points in accepting a candidate who had been indicted, convicted, and impeached for high c…
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