Lyke Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3894120 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lyke Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lyke |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Is there differential engagement in urban flooding prevention in Detroit
Urban flooding is a matter of pressing concern in the city of Detroit. The increase in precipitation in recent years, together with the city’s aging infrastructure put many residents at risk of financial losses, displacement, and detrimental health outcomes. The current study aims to identify potential determinants of residents’ engagement or a lack thereof in flood prevention. The study found that the extent of flooding that residents had previo…
Recurrent Home Flooding in Detroit, MI 2012–2020
Household flooding has wide ranging social, economic and public health impacts particularly for people in resource poor communities. The determinants and public health outcomes of recurrent home flooding in urban contexts, however, are not well understood. A household survey was used to assess neighborhood and household level determinants of recurrent home flooding in Detroit, MI. Survey activities were conducted from 2012 to 2020. Researchers co…
Findings from the Initial Use of the Healthy Homes Rating System (HHRS) in Three American Cities
Political affiliation, collective self-esteem and perceived employability of immigrants
Legislators and Administrators
State legislators' relationships with administrators have received scant attention in the literature despite the importance of these relationships for delivery of public services. We explored whether or not the legislator‐administrator relationship in one professional state legislature resembles Congress's oversight of federal agencies. We also assessed whether or not term limits changed this relationship. Our findings indicate that monitoring st…
Democracy Among Strangers
By truncating service, term limits create massive turnover in some state legislatures where they exist, bringing flocks of newcomers into office. With less time to get to know each other and to develop expertise and influence, how do legislators know who to consult and whose advice to rely on? We explore this and other questions about three relationships (influence, friendship, and policy consultation) with a longitudinal study of the Michigan Ho…
The Political and Institutional Effects of Term Limits
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This innovative volume examines the effects of term
The Social Construction of a Legitimate Presidency
A recognized strength of modern constitutional democracies is their ability to insure legitimate political succession through the use of elections.For a review of the contribution of democratic theory to the succession problem, see: Peter Calvert, “The Theory of Political Succession” in The Process of Political Succession, ed. Peter Calvert (London: Macmillan, 1987), 245–66. We do not challenge this assessment; rather, we suggest that the process…
A Naturally Occurring Quasi-Experiment in the States
Term limits provide a rare opportunity to employ pre- and post-intervention research designs to investigate the effects of turnover in legislatures. This article describes a study of term limits in Michigan that takes advantage of this opportunity. With eight states implementing term limits in 2002 or soon thereafter, there are opportunities for other scholars to replicate all or parts of the study described here. The payoffs for such projects in…
Mapping Patterns of Support for Privatization in the Mass Public
This article examines public attitudes about using for‐profit firms or nonprofit organizations to deliver public services in Michigan. Using survey data, it shows how the public reacts to the privatization of various state and local government services. It then considers some dimensions of attitudes toward privatization. Finally, it estimates models that predict support for privatization based upon a range of characteristics of respondents to our…
Dimensions of Collaboration and Family Impacts
Decentralized, market-based service systems provide services recipients with opportunities to choose services and service providers. Yet, for some service recipients, finding and arranging for services is so difficult that they do not receive the services they need. Collaboration between service providers and service recipients may reduce the costs and confusion of decentralized service delivery. This study explores the effects of interagency col…
Citizen Attitudes about Service Delivery Modes
This research seeks to analyze citizens’ understanding of and attitudes toward modes of public service delivery. The work is based upon a survey of citizens in the Southeastern Michigan area around and including Detroit. It includes measures of citizens’ understanding of how their services are delivered, their satisfaction with their service delivery, the accuracy of their understanding, and their attitudes about how services should be delivered.…
Ending Welfare as We Know It
Reforming Welfare in America
Legislating Safety
The Social Impacts of Computing
This paper provides a conceptual framework for examining the effects of computer systems upon control in organizations. The authors propose that computers be seen as a media of control—control viewed as non-zero sum, and computers as changing the overall amount of control exercised within organizations. Keywords: computer impacts, organization theory, control, power, technological change, computers, social impact, organization theory
Computing in Public Administration
The computers used in public administration before the 1980s, which tended to be large, expensive, user-hostile, and limited systems that required extensive support, have given way to user-friendly, high-speed, interactive systems. The institutionalization of the latter is bringing vast changes to public administration education and practice. Keywords: common practices, leading-edge practices, institutionalization, integration
New Jobs Versus Net Jobs
An Assessment of Urban Reinvestment Policy
Representative Bureaucracies and Student Discipline in an Urban School District
The impact and value of a bureaucracy’s workforce that is racially representative of the clients served has been a volatile and debated subject. Looking at one policy output in a large urban school district, the administration of punishment and suspensions, this article examines the impact of racially balanced faculties on the discipline assigned to minority students.The policy importance of school discipline has been underscored by numerous stud…
In Defense of Surveys as a Reliable Source of Evaluation Data
Democracy Among Strangers
By truncating service, term limits create massive turnover in some state legislatures where they exist, bringing flocks of newcomers into office. With less time to get to know each other and to develop expertise and influence, how do legislators know who to consult and whose advice to rely on? We explore this and other questions about three relationships (influence, friendship, and policy consultation) with a longitudinal study of the Michigan Ho…
Legislators and Administrators
State legislators' relationships with administrators have received scant attention in the literature despite the importance of these relationships for delivery of public services. We explored whether or not the legislator‐administrator relationship in one professional state legislature resembles Congress's oversight of federal agencies. We also assessed whether or not term limits changed this relationship. Our findings indicate that monitoring st…
Political affiliation, collective self-esteem and perceived employability of immigrants
Citizen Attitudes about Service Delivery Modes
This research seeks to analyze citizens’ understanding of and attitudes toward modes of public service delivery. The work is based upon a survey of citizens in the Southeastern Michigan area around and including Detroit. It includes measures of citizens’ understanding of how their services are delivered, their satisfaction with their service delivery, the accuracy of their understanding, and their attitudes about how services should be delivered.…
Computing in Public Administration
The computers used in public administration before the 1980s, which tended to be large, expensive, user-hostile, and limited systems that required extensive support, have given way to user-friendly, high-speed, interactive systems. The institutionalization of the latter is bringing vast changes to public administration education and practice. Keywords: common practices, leading-edge practices, institutionalization, integration
A Naturally Occurring Quasi-Experiment in the States
Term limits provide a rare opportunity to employ pre- and post-intervention research designs to investigate the effects of turnover in legislatures. This article describes a study of term limits in Michigan that takes advantage of this opportunity. With eight states implementing term limits in 2002 or soon thereafter, there are opportunities for other scholars to replicate all or parts of the study described here. The payoffs for such projects in…
Representative Bureaucracies and Student Discipline in an Urban School District
The impact and value of a bureaucracy’s workforce that is racially representative of the clients served has been a volatile and debated subject. Looking at one policy output in a large urban school district, the administration of punishment and suspensions, this article examines the impact of racially balanced faculties on the discipline assigned to minority students.The policy importance of school discipline has been underscored by numerous stud…
The Social Construction of a Legitimate Presidency
A recognized strength of modern constitutional democracies is their ability to insure legitimate political succession through the use of elections.For a review of the contribution of democratic theory to the succession problem, see: Peter Calvert, “The Theory of Political Succession” in The Process of Political Succession, ed. Peter Calvert (London: Macmillan, 1987), 245–66. We do not challenge this assessment; rather, we suggest that the process…
Dimensions of Collaboration and Family Impacts
Decentralized, market-based service systems provide services recipients with opportunities to choose services and service providers. Yet, for some service recipients, finding and arranging for services is so difficult that they do not receive the services they need. Collaboration between service providers and service recipients may reduce the costs and confusion of decentralized service delivery. This study explores the effects of interagency col…
The Social Impacts of Computing
This paper provides a conceptual framework for examining the effects of computer systems upon control in organizations. The authors propose that computers be seen as a media of control—control viewed as non-zero sum, and computers as changing the overall amount of control exercised within organizations. Keywords: computer impacts, organization theory, control, power, technological change, computers, social impact, organization theory
An Assessment of Urban Reinvestment Policy
In Defense of Surveys as a Reliable Source of Evaluation Data
Representative Bureaucracies and Student Discipline in an Urban School District
The impact and value of a bureaucracy’s workforce that is racially representative of the clients served has been a volatile and debated subject. Looking at one policy output in a large urban school district, the administration of punishment and suspensions, this article examines the impact of racially balanced faculties on the discipline assigned to minority students.The policy importance of school discipline has been underscored by numerous stud…
New Jobs Versus Net Jobs
An Assessment of Urban Reinvestment Policy
Computing in Public Administration
The computers used in public administration before the 1980s, which tended to be large, expensive, user-hostile, and limited systems that required extensive support, have given way to user-friendly, high-speed, interactive systems. The institutionalization of the latter is bringing vast changes to public administration education and practice. Keywords: common practices, leading-edge practices, institutionalization, integration
The Social Impacts of Computing
This paper provides a conceptual framework for examining the effects of computer systems upon control in organizations. The authors propose that computers be seen as a media of control—control viewed as non-zero sum, and computers as changing the overall amount of control exercised within organizations. Keywords: computer impacts, organization theory, control, power, technological change, computers, social impact, organization theory
Legislating Safety
Reforming Welfare in America
Citizen Attitudes about Service Delivery Modes
This research seeks to analyze citizens’ understanding of and attitudes toward modes of public service delivery. The work is based upon a survey of citizens in the Southeastern Michigan area around and including Detroit. It includes measures of citizens’ understanding of how their services are delivered, their satisfaction with their service delivery, the accuracy of their understanding, and their attitudes about how services should be delivered.…
Ending Welfare as We Know It
Dimensions of Collaboration and Family Impacts
Decentralized, market-based service systems provide services recipients with opportunities to choose services and service providers. Yet, for some service recipients, finding and arranging for services is so difficult that they do not receive the services they need. Collaboration between service providers and service recipients may reduce the costs and confusion of decentralized service delivery. This study explores the effects of interagency col…
Mapping Patterns of Support for Privatization in the Mass Public
This article examines public attitudes about using for‐profit firms or nonprofit organizations to deliver public services in Michigan. Using survey data, it shows how the public reacts to the privatization of various state and local government services. It then considers some dimensions of attitudes toward privatization. Finally, it estimates models that predict support for privatization based upon a range of characteristics of respondents to our…
A Naturally Occurring Quasi-Experiment in the States
Term limits provide a rare opportunity to employ pre- and post-intervention research designs to investigate the effects of turnover in legislatures. This article describes a study of term limits in Michigan that takes advantage of this opportunity. With eight states implementing term limits in 2002 or soon thereafter, there are opportunities for other scholars to replicate all or parts of the study described here. The payoffs for such projects in…
The Social Construction of a Legitimate Presidency
A recognized strength of modern constitutional democracies is their ability to insure legitimate political succession through the use of elections.For a review of the contribution of democratic theory to the succession problem, see: Peter Calvert, “The Theory of Political Succession” in The Process of Political Succession, ed. Peter Calvert (London: Macmillan, 1987), 245–66. We do not challenge this assessment; rather, we suggest that the process…
The Political and Institutional Effects of Term Limits
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This innovative volume examines the effects of term
Democracy Among Strangers
By truncating service, term limits create massive turnover in some state legislatures where they exist, bringing flocks of newcomers into office. With less time to get to know each other and to develop expertise and influence, how do legislators know who to consult and whose advice to rely on? We explore this and other questions about three relationships (influence, friendship, and policy consultation) with a longitudinal study of the Michigan Ho…
Legislators and Administrators
State legislators' relationships with administrators have received scant attention in the literature despite the importance of these relationships for delivery of public services. We explored whether or not the legislator‐administrator relationship in one professional state legislature resembles Congress's oversight of federal agencies. We also assessed whether or not term limits changed this relationship. Our findings indicate that monitoring st…
Political affiliation, collective self-esteem and perceived employability of immigrants
Findings from the Initial Use of the Healthy Homes Rating System (HHRS) in Three American Cities
Recurrent Home Flooding in Detroit, MI 2012–2020
Household flooding has wide ranging social, economic and public health impacts particularly for people in resource poor communities. The determinants and public health outcomes of recurrent home flooding in urban contexts, however, are not well understood. A household survey was used to assess neighborhood and household level determinants of recurrent home flooding in Detroit, MI. Survey activities were conducted from 2012 to 2020. Researchers co…
Is there differential engagement in urban flooding prevention in Detroit
Urban flooding is a matter of pressing concern in the city of Detroit. The increase in precipitation in recent years, together with the city’s aging infrastructure put many residents at risk of financial losses, displacement, and detrimental health outcomes. The current study aims to identify potential determinants of residents’ engagement or a lack thereof in flood prevention. The study found that the extent of flooding that residents had previo…
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