William D Schreckhise
Biographic Data
| ID | 389100 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William D Schreckhise |
| GIVEN NAMES | William D |
| FAMILY NAME | Schreckhise |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRECKHISE W D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1470-9558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 77 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reducing state-level veteran homelessness through the lens of policy capacity
Introduction Along with the U.S. federal government and local jurisdictions, U.S. states play an important role in shaping veteran homelessness policy. These state-level efforts include economic and resource-based public policy that aid in the reduction of veteran homelessness.Method This study is grounded in policy capacity theory and identifies state-level economic and resource-based determinants that reduce veteran homelessness.Results Utilizi…
Administrative Discretion Through Changing Presidencies and Political Polarization: Reflection on the Rise, Fall, and Rise of Federal-Local Immigration Partnerships in the U.S
Created by Congress in 1996, the immigration enforcement program 287(g) has experienced several cycles of rapid expansion and contraction during different stages in the policy’s relatively brief lifetime. It is an intergovernmental program where state and local agencies sign onto agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), effectively deputizing law enforcement agents to implement federal immigration policy. Using logit models…
Legislative Civility, Gridlock, Polarization, and Productivity
This article examines the relationship between legislative civility and legislative productivity in US state legislatures. The research employs data from the National Survey of State Legislative Lobbyists and from the State Policy Innovation and Diffusion (SPID) database. The former dataset is used to generate an overall civility index for each state as developed by Kettler et al. The SPID database allows one to measure the legislative productivi…
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: Context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation
Intergovernmental Implementation in a Time of Uncooperative Federalism: Immigration Enforcement and Federal Secure Communities Program, 2011–14
Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities (SComm) program produces substantial county‐level variation in immigrant removals. We examine the role components of uncooperative federalism and immigration federalism play in shaping this variation. We do so by employing multilevel mixed‐effects negative binomial regression models to predict the numbers of removals by ICE under the S‐Comm program at the county‐level. Building on past…
Independence in Administrative Adjudications: When and Why Agency Judges Are Subject to Deference and Influence
Are administrative adjudicators subject to external influence and pressures? We present the results from a nationwide survey of agency adjudicators, focusing on immigration judges (IJs) and administrative law judges (ALJs) in the Social Security Administration (SSA). ALJs follow decisional procedures spelled out in the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and are given substantial legal protections from agency pressures. IJs do not follow APA proce…
Decision Making in the Hidden Judiciary: Institutions, Recruitment, and Responsiveness Among U.S. Administrative Law Judges
This article examines the decisional motivations of state and federal administrative law judges. On the basis of the analysis of the survey responses of 265 state and federal administrative law judges (ALJs), we found that ALJs’ views toward the propriety of deferring to external stimuli (such as their agencies, public opinion, or to the elective branches of government) differ considerably in their exercise of quasijudicial authority. To determin…
The Dynamics of State and Local Contexts and Immigration Asylum Hearing Decisions
Immigration judges (IJs) preside over cases related to immigration law, determining whether an individual should be granted asylum. The few prior studies of IJs have focused on factors of interest to judicial politics scholars, such as characteristics of the judge or applicant in a case. Drawing from public administration literature, we add a new set of factors related to local and state context in which the IJ works. Using multilevel regression …
Evaluating Social Cognitive Theory in Action: An Assessment of the Youth Development Program’s Impact on Secondary Student Retention in Selected Mississippi Delta Communities
This study evaluates the Youth Development Program (YDP), a component of the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA). We examine whether the YDP reduced dropout rates among youth in secondary schools in seven school districts in the impoverished Mississippi River Delta in southeast Arkansas. Initially, the program seems to have an impact. Students who participate in the program are less likely to drop out of school than students in a comparison gr…
Secure Communities and Community Values: Local Context and Discretionary Immigration Law Enforcement
In an effort to target dangerous criminals in the United States illegally, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) developed the nationwide deportation programme called Secure Communities. Ostensibly a nationwide programme, the use of this programme instead varies widely across the United States, with some jurisdictions seeing large numbers of deportations, with many others seeing none. Employing ICE deportation data and ordinary least squ…
In defense of the lowly scorecard: What legislator ratings can tell us about interest groups
When Does Politics Matter? A Reexamination of the Determinants of African-American and Latino Municipal Employment Patterns
We develop a revised theory of political influence that addresses the relationship between minority political representation and administrative-level municipal employment patterns among African-Americans and Latinos in U.S. cities. We conduct pooled time-series analysis on employment data from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for years 1987 through 2001. We find that the dynamics of political representation are different for Afric…
A Comparative Case Study of State Ethics Reform in Jalisco and Arkansas
This article is a Most Different Systems comparative case study of the development of the Arkansas Ethics Commission and the Transparency Law of Jalisco, Mexico. These measures resulted from widespread citizen suspicion of government, but were shaped by the different political and economic forces in the two states. Although their adoption may have been merely symbolic, both measures have evolved. In Arkansas, the commission is approaching (albeit…
Ideological Realignment in the Contemporary U.S. Electorate Revisited
Objective. In this study, we revisit the ideological‐realignment theory proposed by Abramowitz and Saunders (1998) by assessing the varying impact a person's ideology had on his or her partisan identification for individuals in different regions and between men and women. Method. Through an examination of the NES cumulative data file and the 1992–1994 NES Panel Study, we present a series of tabular findings, an OLS regression model, and partial c…
Secure Communities and Community Values: Local Context and Discretionary Immigration Law Enforcement
In an effort to target dangerous criminals in the United States illegally, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) developed the nationwide deportation programme called Secure Communities. Ostensibly a nationwide programme, the use of this programme instead varies widely across the United States, with some jurisdictions seeing large numbers of deportations, with many others seeing none. Employing ICE deportation data and ordinary least squ…
The Dynamics of State and Local Contexts and Immigration Asylum Hearing Decisions
Immigration judges (IJs) preside over cases related to immigration law, determining whether an individual should be granted asylum. The few prior studies of IJs have focused on factors of interest to judicial politics scholars, such as characteristics of the judge or applicant in a case. Drawing from public administration literature, we add a new set of factors related to local and state context in which the IJ works. Using multilevel regression …
Ideological Realignment in the Contemporary U.S. Electorate Revisited
Objective. In this study, we revisit the ideological‐realignment theory proposed by Abramowitz and Saunders (1998) by assessing the varying impact a person's ideology had on his or her partisan identification for individuals in different regions and between men and women. Method. Through an examination of the NES cumulative data file and the 1992–1994 NES Panel Study, we present a series of tabular findings, an OLS regression model, and partial c…
Intergovernmental Implementation in a Time of Uncooperative Federalism: Immigration Enforcement and Federal Secure Communities Program, 2011–14
Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities (SComm) program produces substantial county‐level variation in immigrant removals. We examine the role components of uncooperative federalism and immigration federalism play in shaping this variation. We do so by employing multilevel mixed‐effects negative binomial regression models to predict the numbers of removals by ICE under the S‐Comm program at the county‐level. Building on past…
Independence in Administrative Adjudications: When and Why Agency Judges Are Subject to Deference and Influence
Are administrative adjudicators subject to external influence and pressures? We present the results from a nationwide survey of agency adjudicators, focusing on immigration judges (IJs) and administrative law judges (ALJs) in the Social Security Administration (SSA). ALJs follow decisional procedures spelled out in the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and are given substantial legal protections from agency pressures. IJs do not follow APA proce…
When Does Politics Matter? A Reexamination of the Determinants of African-American and Latino Municipal Employment Patterns
We develop a revised theory of political influence that addresses the relationship between minority political representation and administrative-level municipal employment patterns among African-Americans and Latinos in U.S. cities. We conduct pooled time-series analysis on employment data from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for years 1987 through 2001. We find that the dynamics of political representation are different for Afric…
Legislative Civility, Gridlock, Polarization, and Productivity
This article examines the relationship between legislative civility and legislative productivity in US state legislatures. The research employs data from the National Survey of State Legislative Lobbyists and from the State Policy Innovation and Diffusion (SPID) database. The former dataset is used to generate an overall civility index for each state as developed by Kettler et al. The SPID database allows one to measure the legislative productivi…
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: Context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation
Decision Making in the Hidden Judiciary: Institutions, Recruitment, and Responsiveness Among U.S. Administrative Law Judges
This article examines the decisional motivations of state and federal administrative law judges. On the basis of the analysis of the survey responses of 265 state and federal administrative law judges (ALJs), we found that ALJs’ views toward the propriety of deferring to external stimuli (such as their agencies, public opinion, or to the elective branches of government) differ considerably in their exercise of quasijudicial authority. To determin…
In defense of the lowly scorecard: What legislator ratings can tell us about interest groups
A Comparative Case Study of State Ethics Reform in Jalisco and Arkansas
This article is a Most Different Systems comparative case study of the development of the Arkansas Ethics Commission and the Transparency Law of Jalisco, Mexico. These measures resulted from widespread citizen suspicion of government, but were shaped by the different political and economic forces in the two states. Although their adoption may have been merely symbolic, both measures have evolved. In Arkansas, the commission is approaching (albeit…
Ideological Realignment in the Contemporary U.S. Electorate Revisited
Objective. In this study, we revisit the ideological‐realignment theory proposed by Abramowitz and Saunders (1998) by assessing the varying impact a person's ideology had on his or her partisan identification for individuals in different regions and between men and women. Method. Through an examination of the NES cumulative data file and the 1992–1994 NES Panel Study, we present a series of tabular findings, an OLS regression model, and partial c…
A Comparative Case Study of State Ethics Reform in Jalisco and Arkansas
This article is a Most Different Systems comparative case study of the development of the Arkansas Ethics Commission and the Transparency Law of Jalisco, Mexico. These measures resulted from widespread citizen suspicion of government, but were shaped by the different political and economic forces in the two states. Although their adoption may have been merely symbolic, both measures have evolved. In Arkansas, the commission is approaching (albeit…
When Does Politics Matter? A Reexamination of the Determinants of African-American and Latino Municipal Employment Patterns
We develop a revised theory of political influence that addresses the relationship between minority political representation and administrative-level municipal employment patterns among African-Americans and Latinos in U.S. cities. We conduct pooled time-series analysis on employment data from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for years 1987 through 2001. We find that the dynamics of political representation are different for Afric…
In defense of the lowly scorecard: What legislator ratings can tell us about interest groups
Secure Communities and Community Values: Local Context and Discretionary Immigration Law Enforcement
In an effort to target dangerous criminals in the United States illegally, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) developed the nationwide deportation programme called Secure Communities. Ostensibly a nationwide programme, the use of this programme instead varies widely across the United States, with some jurisdictions seeing large numbers of deportations, with many others seeing none. Employing ICE deportation data and ordinary least squ…
Evaluating Social Cognitive Theory in Action: An Assessment of the Youth Development Program’s Impact on Secondary Student Retention in Selected Mississippi Delta Communities
This study evaluates the Youth Development Program (YDP), a component of the federal Workforce Investment Act (WIA). We examine whether the YDP reduced dropout rates among youth in secondary schools in seven school districts in the impoverished Mississippi River Delta in southeast Arkansas. Initially, the program seems to have an impact. Students who participate in the program are less likely to drop out of school than students in a comparison gr…
The Dynamics of State and Local Contexts and Immigration Asylum Hearing Decisions
Immigration judges (IJs) preside over cases related to immigration law, determining whether an individual should be granted asylum. The few prior studies of IJs have focused on factors of interest to judicial politics scholars, such as characteristics of the judge or applicant in a case. Drawing from public administration literature, we add a new set of factors related to local and state context in which the IJ works. Using multilevel regression …
Decision Making in the Hidden Judiciary: Institutions, Recruitment, and Responsiveness Among U.S. Administrative Law Judges
This article examines the decisional motivations of state and federal administrative law judges. On the basis of the analysis of the survey responses of 265 state and federal administrative law judges (ALJs), we found that ALJs’ views toward the propriety of deferring to external stimuli (such as their agencies, public opinion, or to the elective branches of government) differ considerably in their exercise of quasijudicial authority. To determin…
Independence in Administrative Adjudications: When and Why Agency Judges Are Subject to Deference and Influence
Are administrative adjudicators subject to external influence and pressures? We present the results from a nationwide survey of agency adjudicators, focusing on immigration judges (IJs) and administrative law judges (ALJs) in the Social Security Administration (SSA). ALJs follow decisional procedures spelled out in the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) and are given substantial legal protections from agency pressures. IJs do not follow APA proce…
Intergovernmental Implementation in a Time of Uncooperative Federalism: Immigration Enforcement and Federal Secure Communities Program, 2011–14
Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities (SComm) program produces substantial county‐level variation in immigrant removals. We examine the role components of uncooperative federalism and immigration federalism play in shaping this variation. We do so by employing multilevel mixed‐effects negative binomial regression models to predict the numbers of removals by ICE under the S‐Comm program at the county‐level. Building on past…
Local implementation of U.S. federal immigration programs: Context, control, and the problems of intergovernmental implementation
Administrative Discretion Through Changing Presidencies and Political Polarization: Reflection on the Rise, Fall, and Rise of Federal-Local Immigration Partnerships in the U.S
Created by Congress in 1996, the immigration enforcement program 287(g) has experienced several cycles of rapid expansion and contraction during different stages in the policy’s relatively brief lifetime. It is an intergovernmental program where state and local agencies sign onto agreements with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), effectively deputizing law enforcement agents to implement federal immigration policy. Using logit models…
Legislative Civility, Gridlock, Polarization, and Productivity
This article examines the relationship between legislative civility and legislative productivity in US state legislatures. The research employs data from the National Survey of State Legislative Lobbyists and from the State Policy Innovation and Diffusion (SPID) database. The former dataset is used to generate an overall civility index for each state as developed by Kettler et al. The SPID database allows one to measure the legislative productivi…
Reducing state-level veteran homelessness through the lens of policy capacity
Introduction Along with the U.S. federal government and local jurisdictions, U.S. states play an important role in shaping veteran homelessness policy. These state-level efforts include economic and resource-based public policy that aid in the reduction of veteran homelessness.Method This study is grounded in policy capacity theory and identifies state-level economic and resource-based determinants that reduce veteran homelessness.Results Utilizi…
Political science (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Law (8 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (7 works) · Public Administration (7 works) · Public Administration (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (5 works)