Nicholas O Howard
Biographic Data
| ID | 4123963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas O Howard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas |
| FAMILY NAME | O Howard |
| SIGNATURE | HOWARD N O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University at Montgomery |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5540-8201 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures
Party unity is central to studying legislative politics and explaining the organization of legislative chambers, passage of policy, and even electoral outcomes. Its effect has been shown at the subnational, national, and international levels. While party unity has been used to explain many phenomena in legislative politics, there is much less known about the determinants of party unity, especially at the subnational level. We leverage a dataset o…
Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw. Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States
Journal Article Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw. Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States. Get access Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw. Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2022. 248 pp. $95.00 (cloth). $30.00 (paper). $29.99 (epub). Nicholas O Howard Nicholas O Howard Concordia College Moorhead Email: NH…
Organizing Staff in the U.S. Senate: The Priority of Individualism in Resource Allocation
Funding for legislative staff represents a valuable commodity to legislators. However it is a resource distributed to separate internal organizations. Previous studies show strong correlations between a legislator's available institutional power and the benefits of having access to more staffing resources. Therefore, all individual legislators, committee chairs, and party leaders face incentives to direct a larger share of the Senate's budget. Ho…
Revisiting Senatorial Courtesy and the Selection of Judges to the U.S. Courts of Appeals
We examine how elite attitudes and institutional rules and norms affect appointments to lower federal courts. Using voting data from 1,339 U.S. Courts of Appeals cases, we estimate new ideological measures for 475 individual circuit judges appointed between 1913 and 2008. We find that both presidential and home-state senators’ preferences strongly predict judicial ideology. While we find evidence that conditions of senatorial courtesy can constra…
Circumventing Legislative Committees: The US Senate
Committees have been established to improve legislation and make expert recommendations. However, many bills do not appear in committees, and how they reach the Senate floor varies in style and strategy. We develop and test expectations for when, as well as how, bills bypass Senate committee proceedings. The procedures legislators use to circumvent committees and what makes committee bypassing more probable are explored. The findings clearly demo…
Obstruction and the Politics of Civilian Nominations
Conflict over presidential nominations has grown more acrimonious in recent decades. Senators have increasingly exploited their procedural prerogatives to block or delay nominations that they oppose. In this article, we utilize a newly collected dataset on holds placed by Republican senators to explore the usage and effect of obstructive tactics on nominations in the 100th to 104th Congresses (1987-1996). We find that nominees subject to a hold s…
Legislation and Perception: Changes in Congressional Bills
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The Politics of Obstruction: Republican Holds in the U.S. Senate
A defining feature of the modern US Senate is obstruction. Almost all pieces of legislation considered in the Senate are affected either directly or indirectly by obstruction. Obstruction takes many forms in the modern Senate, but one of the most prevalent, yet least studied, is the hold. Using a newly created dataset on Republican Senate holds, we cast light on this important practice. Our results suggest that a variety of factors including timi…
The Politics of Obstruction: Republican Holds in the U.S. Senate
A defining feature of the modern US Senate is obstruction. Almost all pieces of legislation considered in the Senate are affected either directly or indirectly by obstruction. Obstruction takes many forms in the modern Senate, but one of the most prevalent, yet least studied, is the hold. Using a newly created dataset on Republican Senate holds, we cast light on this important practice. Our results suggest that a variety of factors including timi…
Circumventing Legislative Committees: The US Senate
Committees have been established to improve legislation and make expert recommendations. However, many bills do not appear in committees, and how they reach the Senate floor varies in style and strategy. We develop and test expectations for when, as well as how, bills bypass Senate committee proceedings. The procedures legislators use to circumvent committees and what makes committee bypassing more probable are explored. The findings clearly demo…
Obstruction and the Politics of Civilian Nominations
Conflict over presidential nominations has grown more acrimonious in recent decades. Senators have increasingly exploited their procedural prerogatives to block or delay nominations that they oppose. In this article, we utilize a newly collected dataset on holds placed by Republican senators to explore the usage and effect of obstructive tactics on nominations in the 100th to 104th Congresses (1987-1996). We find that nominees subject to a hold s…
Revisiting Senatorial Courtesy and the Selection of Judges to the U.S. Courts of Appeals
We examine how elite attitudes and institutional rules and norms affect appointments to lower federal courts. Using voting data from 1,339 U.S. Courts of Appeals cases, we estimate new ideological measures for 475 individual circuit judges appointed between 1913 and 2008. We find that both presidential and home-state senators’ preferences strongly predict judicial ideology. While we find evidence that conditions of senatorial courtesy can constra…
Organizing Staff in the U.S. Senate: The Priority of Individualism in Resource Allocation
Funding for legislative staff represents a valuable commodity to legislators. However it is a resource distributed to separate internal organizations. Previous studies show strong correlations between a legislator's available institutional power and the benefits of having access to more staffing resources. Therefore, all individual legislators, committee chairs, and party leaders face incentives to direct a larger share of the Senate's budget. Ho…
The Politics of Obstruction: Republican Holds in the U.S. Senate
A defining feature of the modern US Senate is obstruction. Almost all pieces of legislation considered in the Senate are affected either directly or indirectly by obstruction. Obstruction takes many forms in the modern Senate, but one of the most prevalent, yet least studied, is the hold. Using a newly created dataset on Republican Senate holds, we cast light on this important practice. Our results suggest that a variety of factors including timi…
Legislation and Perception: Changes in Congressional Bills
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Revisiting Senatorial Courtesy and the Selection of Judges to the U.S. Courts of Appeals
We examine how elite attitudes and institutional rules and norms affect appointments to lower federal courts. Using voting data from 1,339 U.S. Courts of Appeals cases, we estimate new ideological measures for 475 individual circuit judges appointed between 1913 and 2008. We find that both presidential and home-state senators’ preferences strongly predict judicial ideology. While we find evidence that conditions of senatorial courtesy can constra…
Circumventing Legislative Committees: The US Senate
Committees have been established to improve legislation and make expert recommendations. However, many bills do not appear in committees, and how they reach the Senate floor varies in style and strategy. We develop and test expectations for when, as well as how, bills bypass Senate committee proceedings. The procedures legislators use to circumvent committees and what makes committee bypassing more probable are explored. The findings clearly demo…
Obstruction and the Politics of Civilian Nominations
Conflict over presidential nominations has grown more acrimonious in recent decades. Senators have increasingly exploited their procedural prerogatives to block or delay nominations that they oppose. In this article, we utilize a newly collected dataset on holds placed by Republican senators to explore the usage and effect of obstructive tactics on nominations in the 100th to 104th Congresses (1987-1996). We find that nominees subject to a hold s…
Organizing Staff in the U.S. Senate: The Priority of Individualism in Resource Allocation
Funding for legislative staff represents a valuable commodity to legislators. However it is a resource distributed to separate internal organizations. Previous studies show strong correlations between a legislator's available institutional power and the benefits of having access to more staffing resources. Therefore, all individual legislators, committee chairs, and party leaders face incentives to direct a larger share of the Senate's budget. Ho…
What Explains Party Unity? Evidence from U.S. State Legislatures
Party unity is central to studying legislative politics and explaining the organization of legislative chambers, passage of policy, and even electoral outcomes. Its effect has been shown at the subnational, national, and international levels. While party unity has been used to explain many phenomena in legislative politics, there is much less known about the determinants of party unity, especially at the subnational level. We leverage a dataset o…
Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw. Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States
Journal Article Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw. Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States. Get access Devin Caughey and Christopher Warshaw. Dynamic Democracy: Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2022. 248 pp. $95.00 (cloth). $30.00 (paper). $29.99 (epub). Nicholas O Howard Nicholas O Howard Concordia College Moorhead Email: NH…
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