Dan B Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3915378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dan B Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dan B |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS D B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wartburg College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Are Quests for a “Culture of Assessment” Mired in a “Culture War” Over Assessment? A Q-Methodological Inquiry
The “Assessment Movement” in higher education has generated some of the most wide-ranging and heated discussions that the academy has experienced in a while. On the one hand, accrediting agencies, prospective and current clientele, and the public-at-large have a clear vested interest in ensuring that colleges and universities actually deliver on the student learning outcomes that they promise. Anything less would be tantamount to a failure of ins…
Q Methodology
The Postelection Campaign: Competing Constructions of the Clinton Victory in 1992
This research examines the "contested character" of Bill Clinton's victory in the 1992 election through an application of Q technique and its methodology. A Q-sample comprised of pundits' reflections on the election was sorted by political scientists, journalists, and partisan activists in addition to a sampling of ordinary citizens. Results disclose four distinct versions of Clinton's victory, each with a different story to tell about the electi…
Deconstructing the Political Spectacle: Sex, Race, and Subjectivity in Public Response to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill "Sexual Harassment" Hearings
Extending Edelman's (1988) analysis of the constructed, phenomenal nature of political spectacles, this research employs Q-methodology as a means of interrogating the range of meanings implicit in public reaction to televised hearings held by the U.S. Senate in connection with Anita Hill's charges of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Results disclose a range of five alternative, subjective constructions of the same …
Ronald Reagan in the Public Mind
The viability of Alford's recent psychoanalytic account of Ronald Reagan's popularity is examined through an application of Q methodology. Results from two studies, in which separate Q-samples were constructed theoretically around Alford's formulation, show the presence of two rather antithetical retrospectives on the Reagan Presidency and the nature of leadership underlying it. The meaning and structure of these accounts are examined with an eye…
The Psychoanalysis of Racism, Revolution and Nationalism
Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and The New Left
Opinion Leadership & the Crystallization of Nonattitudes: Some Experimental Results
Public Evaluations of the President: Policy, Partisan, and "Personal" Determinants
identification, a concept neglected in the mainstream political science literature, emerges alongside policy proximity and partisanship as a strong predictor of assessments of President Reagan's performance in office. The concluding discussion centers on the implications of this finding for our understanding of the specific linkage between the president and the public and for our more general understanding of the dynamics of political behavior
Presidential Identification and Policy Leadership: Experimental Evidence on the Reagan Case
Presidential Identification and Mass‐public Compliance With Official Policy: The Case of the Carter Energy Program
Personality and Political Participation: Does Self-Ideal Discrepancy Make a Difference
Rival accounts of the relation between personality adjustment, e.g., psychic fulfillment, self-actualizarion, and the like, and political participation are summarized, and the notion of self-ideal congruence introduced as an independent variable of relevance. The latter, as an aspect of self-actualization, was then investigated for its relationship to political participation. Findings from a sample of 85 college students did not conform to expect…
Deconstructing the Political Spectacle: Sex, Race, and Subjectivity in Public Response to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill "Sexual Harassment" Hearings
Extending Edelman's (1988) analysis of the constructed, phenomenal nature of political spectacles, this research employs Q-methodology as a means of interrogating the range of meanings implicit in public reaction to televised hearings held by the U.S. Senate in connection with Anita Hill's charges of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Results disclose a range of five alternative, subjective constructions of the same …
Presidential Identification and Policy Leadership: Experimental Evidence on the Reagan Case
Public Evaluations of the President: Policy, Partisan, and "Personal" Determinants
identification, a concept neglected in the mainstream political science literature, emerges alongside policy proximity and partisanship as a strong predictor of assessments of President Reagan's performance in office. The concluding discussion centers on the implications of this finding for our understanding of the specific linkage between the president and the public and for our more general understanding of the dynamics of political behavior
The Postelection Campaign: Competing Constructions of the Clinton Victory in 1992
This research examines the "contested character" of Bill Clinton's victory in the 1992 election through an application of Q technique and its methodology. A Q-sample comprised of pundits' reflections on the election was sorted by political scientists, journalists, and partisan activists in addition to a sampling of ordinary citizens. Results disclose four distinct versions of Clinton's victory, each with a different story to tell about the electi…
The Psychoanalysis of Racism, Revolution and Nationalism
Opinion Leadership & the Crystallization of Nonattitudes: Some Experimental Results
Presidential Identification and Mass‐public Compliance With Official Policy: The Case of the Carter Energy Program
Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and The New Left
Personality and Political Participation: Does Self-Ideal Discrepancy Make a Difference
Rival accounts of the relation between personality adjustment, e.g., psychic fulfillment, self-actualizarion, and the like, and political participation are summarized, and the notion of self-ideal congruence introduced as an independent variable of relevance. The latter, as an aspect of self-actualization, was then investigated for its relationship to political participation. Findings from a sample of 85 college students did not conform to expect…
Presidential Identification and Mass‐public Compliance With Official Policy: The Case of the Carter Energy Program
Opinion Leadership & the Crystallization of Nonattitudes: Some Experimental Results
Public Evaluations of the President: Policy, Partisan, and "Personal" Determinants
identification, a concept neglected in the mainstream political science literature, emerges alongside policy proximity and partisanship as a strong predictor of assessments of President Reagan's performance in office. The concluding discussion centers on the implications of this finding for our understanding of the specific linkage between the president and the public and for our more general understanding of the dynamics of political behavior
Presidential Identification and Policy Leadership: Experimental Evidence on the Reagan Case
Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians, and The New Left
The Psychoanalysis of Racism, Revolution and Nationalism
Deconstructing the Political Spectacle: Sex, Race, and Subjectivity in Public Response to the Clarence Thomas/Anita Hill "Sexual Harassment" Hearings
Extending Edelman's (1988) analysis of the constructed, phenomenal nature of political spectacles, this research employs Q-methodology as a means of interrogating the range of meanings implicit in public reaction to televised hearings held by the U.S. Senate in connection with Anita Hill's charges of sexual harassment against Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas. Results disclose a range of five alternative, subjective constructions of the same …
Ronald Reagan in the Public Mind
The viability of Alford's recent psychoanalytic account of Ronald Reagan's popularity is examined through an application of Q methodology. Results from two studies, in which separate Q-samples were constructed theoretically around Alford's formulation, show the presence of two rather antithetical retrospectives on the Reagan Presidency and the nature of leadership underlying it. The meaning and structure of these accounts are examined with an eye…
The Postelection Campaign: Competing Constructions of the Clinton Victory in 1992
This research examines the "contested character" of Bill Clinton's victory in the 1992 election through an application of Q technique and its methodology. A Q-sample comprised of pundits' reflections on the election was sorted by political scientists, journalists, and partisan activists in addition to a sampling of ordinary citizens. Results disclose four distinct versions of Clinton's victory, each with a different story to tell about the electi…
Q Methodology
Are Quests for a “Culture of Assessment” Mired in a “Culture War” Over Assessment? A Q-Methodological Inquiry
The “Assessment Movement” in higher education has generated some of the most wide-ranging and heated discussions that the academy has experienced in a while. On the one hand, accrediting agencies, prospective and current clientele, and the public-at-large have a clear vested interest in ensuring that colleges and universities actually deliver on the student learning outcomes that they promise. Anything less would be tantamount to a failure of ins…
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