Cynthia J Bowling
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4123887 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Cynthia J Bowling |
| NOMBRES | Cynthia J |
| APELLIDO | Bowling |
| FIRMA | BOWLING C J |
| AFILIACIONES | Auburn University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 191 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Seeking Patterns in Chaos
The federal government’s response the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been marked by a series of apparently disjointed, chaotic, and confusing statements and actions on the part of both the White House and federal agencies charged with coordinating the federal response. These actions have left many state governors (and citizens) in a position to address the effects of the pandemic in a haphazard and atomistic manner. In this essay, we c…
From Maximizing to Minimizing
Since the 1960s, public choice theorists have stigmatized bureaucrats as budget maximizers who only care for expanding their own agencies. Despite evidence revealing much more diverse budget behaviors, scholars have almost exclusively focused on studying budget maximizing and its associated factors. To address this limitation, this study employs a multi-level cross-classified logistic regression model to explore factors associated with budget-min…
Introduction to the Special Issue
In January 2009, Barack Obama became president of the United States, succeeding George W. Bush in an era filled with political division and fiscal crises. President Obama inherited war and insecurity in the Middle East, the largest recession since the 1930s, rapidly rising costs of healthcare, and a partisan Congress that became even more polarized during his time in office. Obama may not have come into the executive with a definitive strategy fo…
The State of American Federalism 2014–15
The state of American federalism in 2014–2015 is characterized by inertia and centrifugal force. Party polarization and divided government exacerbate gridlock at the federal level as President Obama faces Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. Policy activity has shifted outward to state legislatures and citizens, the federal and state executive branches, and the court system, creating a diverse set of alternative institutional pathway…
Polarized Parties, Politics, and Policies
Polarized parties, politics, and policies at the federal and state levels of government continue to affect the nature of federalism and intergovernmental relations in the United States. Although polarization and fragmentation are prevalent, there are important instances of cooperation and collaboration. But bottom-up state activism has yielded polarized policies across the states in important issue areas such as same-sex marriage and marijuana po…
State-Level Measures of Institutional Budgetary Influence from the American State Administrators Project
The American State Administrators Project is a half-century long research program surveying the attitudes and behavior of state agency leaders. The project has produced a voluminous number of publications and conference papers. At the same time it has also faced several difficulties in making its data more widely available to the scholarly community. This paper describes the Project, some of the data difficulties it has faced, and the portion of …
Fragmented Federalism
Intense party polarization at the state and federal levels has hindered the adoption and implementation of numerous policies. One of the most important ways we see "fragmented federalism" is in the patchwork of policies across the country, created by factions and implemented in fragments across and within conflicted institutions throughout 2012--13. Implementation of various policies--notably education and health care--has been plagued by partisa…
A Woman's Touch? Gendered Management and Performance in State Administration
Understanding the relationship between organizational performance, gender, and management is crucial to scholars and practitioners alike. In this article, we focus on whether women manage differently than their male counterparts and whether these varied behaviors translate to organizational outcomes. With respect to management activities, we examine internal management as well as external networking patterns with peers and political principals. T…
Deil S. Wright
Deil Spencer Wright, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, passed away on June 30 2009, at the age of 79. Born on June 18, 1930, in Three Rivers, Michigan, to working-class parents, Deil received his BA, MPA, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He spent time on the faculties of Wayne State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of California at Berkeley befo…
Duplicate Presentations in a Dual World
When I first was asked to write this piece about “double conferencing,” I immediately went to my vita. Looking at the evidence Nelson Dometrius presented introducing this symposium and placing myself on the degree year list, I found I was in the center of the controversy, having received my degree in 1998. Had I committed the crime of presenting the same paper at two conferences? I skimmed my CV, and yes, there it was: an identically titled paper…
Executive Orders and Administrative Control
One of the key recommendations of the Winter Commission was the empowerment of governors over the executive branch. However, key institutions have not evolved in this direction; the long ballot still exists in most states, and the formal powers of governors have strengthened to their probable capacity. The authors suggest that a quasi‐formal power—the gubernatorial use of executive orders—may be a significant tool for empowering the governor in t…
Cracked Ceilings, Firmer Floors, and Weakening Walls
Trends of female access to and presence in responsible governmental positions have gained substantial attention. The research reported here assesses and seeks convergence on several issues associated with gender representation. It extends the research by focusing on top executive posts in American state governments. In particular, the presence of women agency heads in all 50 states is examined from 1970 through 2000 using the lenses of passive re…
Establishing a Continuum from Minimizing to Maximizing Bureaucrats
Scholars have long suspected the blanket description of bureaucrats as “budget maximizers” is simplistic and inaccurate. This article provides empirical grounds for questioning that description and enhances our understanding of bureaucratic fiscal preferences. Bureaucratic preferences for expansion are distributed along a continuum. A typology of agency heads' expansion preferences is developed and related to Downs's typology of bureaucrats. Data…
Divided Government, Interest Representation, and Policy Differences
Recent research has focused on divided government and interest representation as sources of legislative gridlock. We hypothesize that these two factors will differentially affect the legislative process in eight different policy areas even if they do not affect the overall output of legislation. Using data from the 50 states, we found that when a governor faced a legislature controlled by the opposition party, divided government did make passage …
Change and Continuity in State Administration
governments are the keystones of the federal system. This assertive metaphor takes on added significance as the states are increasingly challenged by Supreme Court decisions, fiscal pressures, federal mandates, selective devolution, and policy implementation complexities. The political challenges must be addressed in the broad arena of electoral politics by governors, legislators, courts, and other constitutional or institutional actors. But few,…
Divided Government, Interest Representation, and Policy Differences
Recent research has focused on divided government and interest representation as sources of legislative gridlock. We hypothesize that these two factors will differentially affect the legislative process in eight different policy areas even if they do not affect the overall output of legislation. Using data from the 50 states, we found that when a governor faced a legislature controlled by the opposition party, divided government did make passage …
A Woman's Touch? Gendered Management and Performance in State Administration
Understanding the relationship between organizational performance, gender, and management is crucial to scholars and practitioners alike. In this article, we focus on whether women manage differently than their male counterparts and whether these varied behaviors translate to organizational outcomes. With respect to management activities, we examine internal management as well as external networking patterns with peers and political principals. T…
Fragmented Federalism
Intense party polarization at the state and federal levels has hindered the adoption and implementation of numerous policies. One of the most important ways we see "fragmented federalism" is in the patchwork of policies across the country, created by factions and implemented in fragments across and within conflicted institutions throughout 2012--13. Implementation of various policies--notably education and health care--has been plagued by partisa…
Polarized Parties, Politics, and Policies
Polarized parties, politics, and policies at the federal and state levels of government continue to affect the nature of federalism and intergovernmental relations in the United States. Although polarization and fragmentation are prevalent, there are important instances of cooperation and collaboration. But bottom-up state activism has yielded polarized policies across the states in important issue areas such as same-sex marriage and marijuana po…
Seeking Patterns in Chaos
The federal government’s response the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been marked by a series of apparently disjointed, chaotic, and confusing statements and actions on the part of both the White House and federal agencies charged with coordinating the federal response. These actions have left many state governors (and citizens) in a position to address the effects of the pandemic in a haphazard and atomistic manner. In this essay, we c…
The State of American Federalism 2014–15
The state of American federalism in 2014–2015 is characterized by inertia and centrifugal force. Party polarization and divided government exacerbate gridlock at the federal level as President Obama faces Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. Policy activity has shifted outward to state legislatures and citizens, the federal and state executive branches, and the court system, creating a diverse set of alternative institutional pathway…
From Maximizing to Minimizing
Since the 1960s, public choice theorists have stigmatized bureaucrats as budget maximizers who only care for expanding their own agencies. Despite evidence revealing much more diverse budget behaviors, scholars have almost exclusively focused on studying budget maximizing and its associated factors. To address this limitation, this study employs a multi-level cross-classified logistic regression model to explore factors associated with budget-min…
Introduction to the Special Issue
In January 2009, Barack Obama became president of the United States, succeeding George W. Bush in an era filled with political division and fiscal crises. President Obama inherited war and insecurity in the Middle East, the largest recession since the 1930s, rapidly rising costs of healthcare, and a partisan Congress that became even more polarized during his time in office. Obama may not have come into the executive with a definitive strategy fo…
Change and Continuity in State Administration
governments are the keystones of the federal system. This assertive metaphor takes on added significance as the states are increasingly challenged by Supreme Court decisions, fiscal pressures, federal mandates, selective devolution, and policy implementation complexities. The political challenges must be addressed in the broad arena of electoral politics by governors, legislators, courts, and other constitutional or institutional actors. But few,…
Divided Government, Interest Representation, and Policy Differences
Recent research has focused on divided government and interest representation as sources of legislative gridlock. We hypothesize that these two factors will differentially affect the legislative process in eight different policy areas even if they do not affect the overall output of legislation. Using data from the 50 states, we found that when a governor faced a legislature controlled by the opposition party, divided government did make passage …
Establishing a Continuum from Minimizing to Maximizing Bureaucrats
Scholars have long suspected the blanket description of bureaucrats as “budget maximizers” is simplistic and inaccurate. This article provides empirical grounds for questioning that description and enhances our understanding of bureaucratic fiscal preferences. Bureaucratic preferences for expansion are distributed along a continuum. A typology of agency heads' expansion preferences is developed and related to Downs's typology of bureaucrats. Data…
Cracked Ceilings, Firmer Floors, and Weakening Walls
Trends of female access to and presence in responsible governmental positions have gained substantial attention. The research reported here assesses and seeks convergence on several issues associated with gender representation. It extends the research by focusing on top executive posts in American state governments. In particular, the presence of women agency heads in all 50 states is examined from 1970 through 2000 using the lenses of passive re…
Duplicate Presentations in a Dual World
When I first was asked to write this piece about “double conferencing,” I immediately went to my vita. Looking at the evidence Nelson Dometrius presented introducing this symposium and placing myself on the degree year list, I found I was in the center of the controversy, having received my degree in 1998. Had I committed the crime of presenting the same paper at two conferences? I skimmed my CV, and yes, there it was: an identically titled paper…
Executive Orders and Administrative Control
One of the key recommendations of the Winter Commission was the empowerment of governors over the executive branch. However, key institutions have not evolved in this direction; the long ballot still exists in most states, and the formal powers of governors have strengthened to their probable capacity. The authors suggest that a quasi‐formal power—the gubernatorial use of executive orders—may be a significant tool for empowering the governor in t…
Deil S. Wright
Deil Spencer Wright, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, passed away on June 30 2009, at the age of 79. Born on June 18, 1930, in Three Rivers, Michigan, to working-class parents, Deil received his BA, MPA, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He spent time on the faculties of Wayne State University, the University of Iowa, and the University of California at Berkeley befo…
A Woman's Touch? Gendered Management and Performance in State Administration
Understanding the relationship between organizational performance, gender, and management is crucial to scholars and practitioners alike. In this article, we focus on whether women manage differently than their male counterparts and whether these varied behaviors translate to organizational outcomes. With respect to management activities, we examine internal management as well as external networking patterns with peers and political principals. T…
State-Level Measures of Institutional Budgetary Influence from the American State Administrators Project
The American State Administrators Project is a half-century long research program surveying the attitudes and behavior of state agency leaders. The project has produced a voluminous number of publications and conference papers. At the same time it has also faced several difficulties in making its data more widely available to the scholarly community. This paper describes the Project, some of the data difficulties it has faced, and the portion of …
Fragmented Federalism
Intense party polarization at the state and federal levels has hindered the adoption and implementation of numerous policies. One of the most important ways we see "fragmented federalism" is in the patchwork of policies across the country, created by factions and implemented in fragments across and within conflicted institutions throughout 2012--13. Implementation of various policies--notably education and health care--has been plagued by partisa…
Polarized Parties, Politics, and Policies
Polarized parties, politics, and policies at the federal and state levels of government continue to affect the nature of federalism and intergovernmental relations in the United States. Although polarization and fragmentation are prevalent, there are important instances of cooperation and collaboration. But bottom-up state activism has yielded polarized policies across the states in important issue areas such as same-sex marriage and marijuana po…
The State of American Federalism 2014–15
The state of American federalism in 2014–2015 is characterized by inertia and centrifugal force. Party polarization and divided government exacerbate gridlock at the federal level as President Obama faces Republican majorities in both houses of Congress. Policy activity has shifted outward to state legislatures and citizens, the federal and state executive branches, and the court system, creating a diverse set of alternative institutional pathway…
Introduction to the Special Issue
In January 2009, Barack Obama became president of the United States, succeeding George W. Bush in an era filled with political division and fiscal crises. President Obama inherited war and insecurity in the Middle East, the largest recession since the 1930s, rapidly rising costs of healthcare, and a partisan Congress that became even more polarized during his time in office. Obama may not have come into the executive with a definitive strategy fo…
Seeking Patterns in Chaos
The federal government’s response the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been marked by a series of apparently disjointed, chaotic, and confusing statements and actions on the part of both the White House and federal agencies charged with coordinating the federal response. These actions have left many state governors (and citizens) in a position to address the effects of the pandemic in a haphazard and atomistic manner. In this essay, we c…
From Maximizing to Minimizing
Since the 1960s, public choice theorists have stigmatized bureaucrats as budget maximizers who only care for expanding their own agencies. Despite evidence revealing much more diverse budget behaviors, scholars have almost exclusively focused on studying budget maximizing and its associated factors. To address this limitation, this study employs a multi-level cross-classified logistic regression model to explore factors associated with budget-min…
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