William M Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 4115327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William M Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | William M |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS W M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tampa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4223-8124 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 120 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Municipalities at Court
Municipal governments do not have constitutional recognition and risk being viewed as an afterthought by federalism scholars despite being key partners in facilitating state and federal policymaking as well as managing local affairs. How municipal governments exercise power and their role in the federal system has been litigated throughout the nation's history and has permitted the Supreme Court to issue rulings with implications for governmental…
Utilizing Photos for Deeper Learning in Graduate Social Work Education
The Impact of Tort Reform Liability Shields During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
We are constantly reminded of the threats facing our democracy -from an avalanche of mis-and disinformation designed specifically to undermine confidence in our system of government and stoke fear; to the weaponization of the judicial system; to how gerrymandering and other antidemocratic efforts have made it harder for people to have their voice heard.Lawmakers and corporations abusing preemption represent one of the ways anti-democratic forces …
Face mask mandates
During the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States, the coordination and cooperation between the federal government and the states failed. American governors were thus tasked with making critical public health policy choices—under extreme uncertainty—with varying institutional capacities, partisan pressures, and state demographic differences. Yet most of the nation's governors chose to impose a face covering or mask mandate to li…
Carriers of the Creed
Ghana’s Swing Voters
Ghana is a country where presidential election results are not a foregone conclusion and parties can count on very few safe seats in the legislature. This lack of electoral predictability suggests that a significant block of Ghanaian voters are persuadable. But how are these persuadable voters different from their unpersuadable counterparts? We comb through the swing voter literature for potential answers to this question and weigh these answers …
Federalism, Intergovernmental Relationships, and Emergency Response
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted governance. A strong intergovernmental response is critical for stemming the worst damage during the outset of a disaster. Collaborative planning with networks of constituent governments, medical experts, and emergency managers are needed to provide a holistic response to the highly technical and complex issues brought on by the novel coronavirus. This commentary highlights the differences …
Judging government economic performance
The macroeconomic theory of judging contends that when justices on courts of last resort consider cases involving their governments and economic issues their voting behaviour will be affected by the state of the economy. Using decisions from the High Court of Australia from 1970 through 2018, the findings suggest that both economic conditions, particularly inflation and the GDP growth rate, and the partisan identity of the Commonwealth government…
Challenges to decentralisation in Ghana
Decentralisation in Ghana, and across sub-Saharan Africa, faces a number of challenges to successful local governance provision because there are a number of formal and informal actors to choose from. Citizens may take problems they want a governance provider to solve to a member of parliament or a district assembly person, a traditional chief or a police officer, a neighbour or an NGO. In this article we report on a four-constituency survey admi…
Domestic Legal Infrastructures and Member State Observations
We investigate the role of domestic legal infrastructures on Member State behavior at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Article 234 cases from 1961 to 2006. The ECJ issues preliminary rulings on the interpretation of European Union (EU) law when requested to do so by national judges, which promotes consistent application of EU law within national legal orders as well as a larger legal discourse about the scope and boundaries of integration. …
Party Animals
Existing literature shows that Republicans in the mass public demonstrate greater ideological inconsistency and value conflict than Democrats. That is, despite a commitment to the conservative label and abstract belief in limited government, Republican identifiers’ substantive policy attitudes are nonetheless divided. Conversely, Democrats, despite registering lower levels of ideological thinking, maintain relatively consistent liberal issue atti…
Formal versus traditional institutions
Citizens in Ghana have a host of options when it comes to local governance provision as a result of the government's decentralization policies. We undertake to explore and understand how Ghanaians navigate the constellation of local institutions, both formal and traditional, to solve an array of common problems. A four-constituency survey was administered during the summer of 2009 and asked respondents about their experiences interacting with fou…
Which Governments Come Out Ahead
Party capability theory assumes that governments, due to their immense resources and status as repeat players, hold a great advantage over individuals and organizations pursuing litigation in courts. Less known is whether all levels of government enjoy this advantage, how they fare against one another and how an institutional arrangement such as federalism complicates such relationships. These questions are investigated using decisions made by th…
Political Sophistication and the Dimensionality of Elite and Mass Attitudes, 1980−2004
Among the terms central to the literature on political attitudes have been complexity and constraint, with some scholars asserting that increased complexity—political sophistication—constrains political attitudes to a single ideological dimension while others argue that complexity instead leads to a multidimensional attitude structure. We investigate the role of sophistication in structuring issue attitudes using a unique survey of Democratic and…
The impact of the Australian High Court on elite opinion
Institutional theory suggests that policy views of a Court in democratic regimes are never far out of line for long with the policy views of the dominant lawmaking majorities because of relatively regular turnover in the membership of the Court. The result is the Court may provide legitimacy to majoritarian policies and can sometimes influence elite preferences. The authors develop and test a theory of legitimation using a data set administered t…
Political Sophistication and the Dimensionality of Elite and Mass Attitudes, 1980−2004
Among the terms central to the literature on political attitudes have been complexity and constraint, with some scholars asserting that increased complexity—political sophistication—constrains political attitudes to a single ideological dimension while others argue that complexity instead leads to a multidimensional attitude structure. We investigate the role of sophistication in structuring issue attitudes using a unique survey of Democratic and…
Federalism, Intergovernmental Relationships, and Emergency Response
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted governance. A strong intergovernmental response is critical for stemming the worst damage during the outset of a disaster. Collaborative planning with networks of constituent governments, medical experts, and emergency managers are needed to provide a holistic response to the highly technical and complex issues brought on by the novel coronavirus. This commentary highlights the differences …
Party Animals
Existing literature shows that Republicans in the mass public demonstrate greater ideological inconsistency and value conflict than Democrats. That is, despite a commitment to the conservative label and abstract belief in limited government, Republican identifiers’ substantive policy attitudes are nonetheless divided. Conversely, Democrats, despite registering lower levels of ideological thinking, maintain relatively consistent liberal issue atti…
Challenges to decentralisation in Ghana
Decentralisation in Ghana, and across sub-Saharan Africa, faces a number of challenges to successful local governance provision because there are a number of formal and informal actors to choose from. Citizens may take problems they want a governance provider to solve to a member of parliament or a district assembly person, a traditional chief or a police officer, a neighbour or an NGO. In this article we report on a four-constituency survey admi…
Formal versus traditional institutions
Citizens in Ghana have a host of options when it comes to local governance provision as a result of the government's decentralization policies. We undertake to explore and understand how Ghanaians navigate the constellation of local institutions, both formal and traditional, to solve an array of common problems. A four-constituency survey was administered during the summer of 2009 and asked respondents about their experiences interacting with fou…
Judging government economic performance
The macroeconomic theory of judging contends that when justices on courts of last resort consider cases involving their governments and economic issues their voting behaviour will be affected by the state of the economy. Using decisions from the High Court of Australia from 1970 through 2018, the findings suggest that both economic conditions, particularly inflation and the GDP growth rate, and the partisan identity of the Commonwealth government…
Which Governments Come Out Ahead
Party capability theory assumes that governments, due to their immense resources and status as repeat players, hold a great advantage over individuals and organizations pursuing litigation in courts. Less known is whether all levels of government enjoy this advantage, how they fare against one another and how an institutional arrangement such as federalism complicates such relationships. These questions are investigated using decisions made by th…
The impact of the Australian High Court on elite opinion
Institutional theory suggests that policy views of a Court in democratic regimes are never far out of line for long with the policy views of the dominant lawmaking majorities because of relatively regular turnover in the membership of the Court. The result is the Court may provide legitimacy to majoritarian policies and can sometimes influence elite preferences. The authors develop and test a theory of legitimation using a data set administered t…
Political Sophistication and the Dimensionality of Elite and Mass Attitudes, 1980−2004
Among the terms central to the literature on political attitudes have been complexity and constraint, with some scholars asserting that increased complexity—political sophistication—constrains political attitudes to a single ideological dimension while others argue that complexity instead leads to a multidimensional attitude structure. We investigate the role of sophistication in structuring issue attitudes using a unique survey of Democratic and…
Domestic Legal Infrastructures and Member State Observations
We investigate the role of domestic legal infrastructures on Member State behavior at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Article 234 cases from 1961 to 2006. The ECJ issues preliminary rulings on the interpretation of European Union (EU) law when requested to do so by national judges, which promotes consistent application of EU law within national legal orders as well as a larger legal discourse about the scope and boundaries of integration. …
Party Animals
Existing literature shows that Republicans in the mass public demonstrate greater ideological inconsistency and value conflict than Democrats. That is, despite a commitment to the conservative label and abstract belief in limited government, Republican identifiers’ substantive policy attitudes are nonetheless divided. Conversely, Democrats, despite registering lower levels of ideological thinking, maintain relatively consistent liberal issue atti…
Formal versus traditional institutions
Citizens in Ghana have a host of options when it comes to local governance provision as a result of the government's decentralization policies. We undertake to explore and understand how Ghanaians navigate the constellation of local institutions, both formal and traditional, to solve an array of common problems. A four-constituency survey was administered during the summer of 2009 and asked respondents about their experiences interacting with fou…
Which Governments Come Out Ahead
Party capability theory assumes that governments, due to their immense resources and status as repeat players, hold a great advantage over individuals and organizations pursuing litigation in courts. Less known is whether all levels of government enjoy this advantage, how they fare against one another and how an institutional arrangement such as federalism complicates such relationships. These questions are investigated using decisions made by th…
Challenges to decentralisation in Ghana
Decentralisation in Ghana, and across sub-Saharan Africa, faces a number of challenges to successful local governance provision because there are a number of formal and informal actors to choose from. Citizens may take problems they want a governance provider to solve to a member of parliament or a district assembly person, a traditional chief or a police officer, a neighbour or an NGO. In this article we report on a four-constituency survey admi…
Ghana’s Swing Voters
Ghana is a country where presidential election results are not a foregone conclusion and parties can count on very few safe seats in the legislature. This lack of electoral predictability suggests that a significant block of Ghanaian voters are persuadable. But how are these persuadable voters different from their unpersuadable counterparts? We comb through the swing voter literature for potential answers to this question and weigh these answers …
Federalism, Intergovernmental Relationships, and Emergency Response
The recent COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted governance. A strong intergovernmental response is critical for stemming the worst damage during the outset of a disaster. Collaborative planning with networks of constituent governments, medical experts, and emergency managers are needed to provide a holistic response to the highly technical and complex issues brought on by the novel coronavirus. This commentary highlights the differences …
Judging government economic performance
The macroeconomic theory of judging contends that when justices on courts of last resort consider cases involving their governments and economic issues their voting behaviour will be affected by the state of the economy. Using decisions from the High Court of Australia from 1970 through 2018, the findings suggest that both economic conditions, particularly inflation and the GDP growth rate, and the partisan identity of the Commonwealth government…
Carriers of the Creed
Face mask mandates
During the first year of the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United States, the coordination and cooperation between the federal government and the states failed. American governors were thus tasked with making critical public health policy choices—under extreme uncertainty—with varying institutional capacities, partisan pressures, and state demographic differences. Yet most of the nation's governors chose to impose a face covering or mask mandate to li…
The Impact of Tort Reform Liability Shields During the Covid‐19 Pandemic
We are constantly reminded of the threats facing our democracy -from an avalanche of mis-and disinformation designed specifically to undermine confidence in our system of government and stoke fear; to the weaponization of the judicial system; to how gerrymandering and other antidemocratic efforts have made it harder for people to have their voice heard.Lawmakers and corporations abusing preemption represent one of the ways anti-democratic forces …
Municipalities at Court
Municipal governments do not have constitutional recognition and risk being viewed as an afterthought by federalism scholars despite being key partners in facilitating state and federal policymaking as well as managing local affairs. How municipal governments exercise power and their role in the federal system has been litigated throughout the nation's history and has permitted the Supreme Court to issue rulings with implications for governmental…
Utilizing Photos for Deeper Learning in Graduate Social Work Education
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