Robert S Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3994544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert S Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert S |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH R S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ben Ansell, Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World - and How to Escape Them
Rory Stewart, Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within
Oliver Bullough, Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals
The United States Congress and nuclear war powers: Explaining legislative nonfeasance
Scholarly debate over the role of the United States Congress in approving military action has focused on the respective war powers granted the executive and legislature by the United States Constitution. Although a voluminous literature has examined the institutional and partisan politics shaping their exercise, a conspicuous lacuna concerns nuclear war powers. Despite periodic but mostly ineffective reassertions of congressional prerogatives ove…
Unchecked and Unbalanced? The Politics and Policy of U.S. Nuclear Launch Authority
I, the people: A deflationary interpretation of populism, Trump and the United States constitution
This paper advances a deflationary interpretation of populism, Donald Trump and the United States Constitution. It accepts that Trump utilizes a populist pose but rejects populism as too reductive for understanding his ascension and constitutional challenge. First, it argues that, although he merits the designation, Trump reveals more about populism than populism does about him. Trump illustrates populism's conceptual elasticity, but employing it…
After Obama: Renewing American Leadership, Restoring Global Order
Barack Obama's foreign policy has failed but the American strategic mind has not yet closed. In After Obama, Robert Singh examines how and why US influence has weakened and contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values. A well-intentioned but naive strategy of engagement has encouraged US adversaries such as Russia, China and Iran to assert themselves while allowing Western alliances to f…
Barack Obama's Post-American Foreign Policy: The Limits of Engagement
After one of the most controversial and divisive periods in the history of American foreign policy under President George W. Bush, the Obama administration was expected to make changes for the better in US relations with the wider world. Now, international problems confronting Obama appear more intractable, and there seems to be a marked continuity in policies between Obama and his predecessor. Robert Singh argues that Obama's approach of 'strate…
Prospects for the New US Administration: What can Social Science Offer? Debate
A trans-Atlantic panel of social scientists addresses the question of what social science might offer the new President of the United States in various areas of policy and government action. Andrew Rudalevige's analysis of the scholarship on managing the presidency leads him to state that ‘most of the major happenings of the Bush years were essentially administrative in nature. That is likely to continue. Thus, how and whether presidents achieve …
After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy
The foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration has won few admirers, and many anticipate that his successor will repudiate the actions of the past eight years. In their provocative account Lynch and Singh argue that Bush's policy should be placed within the mainstream of the American foreign policy tradition. Further, they suggest that there will, and should, be continuity in US foreign policy from his presidency to those of his successo…
The Exceptional Empire: Why the United States Will Not Decline — Again
American Government and Politics: A Concise Introduction
Book synopsis: American Government and Politics is a completely new introductory textbook designed and written for all students of politics coming to the subject for the first time. It provides a lively and accessible introduction and guide to all the main features and characteristics of one of the most distinctive and complex contemporary political systems in the world. \nFrom the impeachment of Bill Clinton, to the controversy surrounding the 2…
Teaching American Politics
This article examines some of the hurdles that confront teachers of American government and politics in the United Kingdom. It argues that whilst the problems associated with teaching American politics are hardly unique within the politics discipline, they do pose substantial challenges. In particular, confronting students' stereotypes and prejudices about the United States is a key task of a successful teaching programme. To do this, and to make…
Capital Punishment in the United States: A New Abolitionism
For some readers, capital punishment proved one of the most disconcerting features of Jonathan Freedland's widely acclaimed book on Anglo-America, Bring Home the Revolution. Observing that opinion polls show Americans and Britons to hold similar views on capital punishment(a 1996 MORI poll put British support for the death penalty at 76 per cent), Freed-land noted that, despite its prohibition in the UK,opponents of judicial killing have hardly w…
Gun politics in America: Continuity and Change
Journal Article Gun politics in America: continuity and change Get access R Singh R Singh University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/52.1.1 Published: 01 January 1999
Gun Control in America
The rise and fall of legislative service organisations in the United States Congress
The abolition of Legislative Service Organisations by the 104th Congress (1995–96) constituted one of its earliest achievements. Although political dissensus had surrounded the role and activities of LSOs throughout their institutional existence, the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional elections was the critical factor prompting their abolition. Prior reform attempts had faltered upon the Democratic party's post‐1954 dominance of the Hou…
The congressional black caucus in the United States Congress, 1971–1990
The establishment of the Congressional Black Caucus in the United States Congress, in 1971, inaugurated a new era in the history of black congressional representation. The Caucus represented a novel attempt at a form of collective national black political leadership, seeking to influence both the executive and legislature to secure symbolic and substantive policy advances for blacks beyond, as well as within, the districts of its members. This at…
I, the people: A deflationary interpretation of populism, Trump and the United States constitution
This paper advances a deflationary interpretation of populism, Donald Trump and the United States Constitution. It accepts that Trump utilizes a populist pose but rejects populism as too reductive for understanding his ascension and constitutional challenge. First, it argues that, although he merits the designation, Trump reveals more about populism than populism does about him. Trump illustrates populism's conceptual elasticity, but employing it…
Teaching American Politics
This article examines some of the hurdles that confront teachers of American government and politics in the United Kingdom. It argues that whilst the problems associated with teaching American politics are hardly unique within the politics discipline, they do pose substantial challenges. In particular, confronting students' stereotypes and prejudices about the United States is a key task of a successful teaching programme. To do this, and to make…
The Exceptional Empire: Why the United States Will Not Decline — Again
Capital Punishment in the United States: A New Abolitionism
For some readers, capital punishment proved one of the most disconcerting features of Jonathan Freedland's widely acclaimed book on Anglo-America, Bring Home the Revolution. Observing that opinion polls show Americans and Britons to hold similar views on capital punishment(a 1996 MORI poll put British support for the death penalty at 76 per cent), Freed-land noted that, despite its prohibition in the UK,opponents of judicial killing have hardly w…
Gun politics in America: Continuity and Change
Journal Article Gun politics in America: continuity and change Get access R Singh R Singh University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/52.1.1 Published: 01 January 1999
The congressional black caucus in the United States Congress, 1971–1990
The establishment of the Congressional Black Caucus in the United States Congress, in 1971, inaugurated a new era in the history of black congressional representation. The Caucus represented a novel attempt at a form of collective national black political leadership, seeking to influence both the executive and legislature to secure symbolic and substantive policy advances for blacks beyond, as well as within, the districts of its members. This at…
The rise and fall of legislative service organisations in the United States Congress
The abolition of Legislative Service Organisations by the 104th Congress (1995–96) constituted one of its earliest achievements. Although political dissensus had surrounded the role and activities of LSOs throughout their institutional existence, the Republican victory in the 1994 congressional elections was the critical factor prompting their abolition. Prior reform attempts had faltered upon the Democratic party's post‐1954 dominance of the Hou…
Gun Control in America
Gun politics in America: Continuity and Change
Journal Article Gun politics in America: continuity and change Get access R Singh R Singh University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 52, Issue 1, January 1999, Pages 1–18, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/52.1.1 Published: 01 January 1999
Capital Punishment in the United States: A New Abolitionism
For some readers, capital punishment proved one of the most disconcerting features of Jonathan Freedland's widely acclaimed book on Anglo-America, Bring Home the Revolution. Observing that opinion polls show Americans and Britons to hold similar views on capital punishment(a 1996 MORI poll put British support for the death penalty at 76 per cent), Freed-land noted that, despite its prohibition in the UK,opponents of judicial killing have hardly w…
Teaching American Politics
This article examines some of the hurdles that confront teachers of American government and politics in the United Kingdom. It argues that whilst the problems associated with teaching American politics are hardly unique within the politics discipline, they do pose substantial challenges. In particular, confronting students' stereotypes and prejudices about the United States is a key task of a successful teaching programme. To do this, and to make…
American Government and Politics: A Concise Introduction
Book synopsis: American Government and Politics is a completely new introductory textbook designed and written for all students of politics coming to the subject for the first time. It provides a lively and accessible introduction and guide to all the main features and characteristics of one of the most distinctive and complex contemporary political systems in the world. \nFrom the impeachment of Bill Clinton, to the controversy surrounding the 2…
After Bush: The Case for Continuity in American Foreign Policy
The foreign policy of the George W. Bush administration has won few admirers, and many anticipate that his successor will repudiate the actions of the past eight years. In their provocative account Lynch and Singh argue that Bush's policy should be placed within the mainstream of the American foreign policy tradition. Further, they suggest that there will, and should, be continuity in US foreign policy from his presidency to those of his successo…
The Exceptional Empire: Why the United States Will Not Decline — Again
Prospects for the New US Administration: What can Social Science Offer? Debate
A trans-Atlantic panel of social scientists addresses the question of what social science might offer the new President of the United States in various areas of policy and government action. Andrew Rudalevige's analysis of the scholarship on managing the presidency leads him to state that ‘most of the major happenings of the Bush years were essentially administrative in nature. That is likely to continue. Thus, how and whether presidents achieve …
Barack Obama's Post-American Foreign Policy: The Limits of Engagement
After one of the most controversial and divisive periods in the history of American foreign policy under President George W. Bush, the Obama administration was expected to make changes for the better in US relations with the wider world. Now, international problems confronting Obama appear more intractable, and there seems to be a marked continuity in policies between Obama and his predecessor. Robert Singh argues that Obama's approach of 'strate…
After Obama: Renewing American Leadership, Restoring Global Order
Barack Obama's foreign policy has failed but the American strategic mind has not yet closed. In After Obama, Robert Singh examines how and why US influence has weakened and contributed to the erosion of the world America made, endangering international order and liberal values. A well-intentioned but naive strategy of engagement has encouraged US adversaries such as Russia, China and Iran to assert themselves while allowing Western alliances to f…
I, the people: A deflationary interpretation of populism, Trump and the United States constitution
This paper advances a deflationary interpretation of populism, Donald Trump and the United States Constitution. It accepts that Trump utilizes a populist pose but rejects populism as too reductive for understanding his ascension and constitutional challenge. First, it argues that, although he merits the designation, Trump reveals more about populism than populism does about him. Trump illustrates populism's conceptual elasticity, but employing it…
The United States Congress and nuclear war powers: Explaining legislative nonfeasance
Scholarly debate over the role of the United States Congress in approving military action has focused on the respective war powers granted the executive and legislature by the United States Constitution. Although a voluminous literature has examined the institutional and partisan politics shaping their exercise, a conspicuous lacuna concerns nuclear war powers. Despite periodic but mostly ineffective reassertions of congressional prerogatives ove…
Unchecked and Unbalanced? The Politics and Policy of U.S. Nuclear Launch Authority
Rory Stewart, Politics on the Edge: A Memoir from Within
Oliver Bullough, Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals
Ben Ansell, Why Politics Fails: The Five Traps of the Modern World - and How to Escape Them
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