Diane L Duffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4180156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diane L Duffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diane L |
| FAMILY NAME | Duffin |
| SIGNATURE | DUFFIN D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nebraska at Kearney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Cold War, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy Spending Decisions
Conventional wisdom before the Vietnam War held that public opinion exerted no influence on U.S. foreign policy decisions. Scholars working in Vietnam's aftermath found episodic influence of public opinion on foreign policy, but missing in our understanding were longitudinal examinations of public opinion's influence on foreign policy. A number of post-Vietnam scholars subsequently revealed a long-term relationship between public opinion and defe…
Explaining Participation in Congressional Oversight Hearings
Scholarship on congressional oversight has documented an increase in the amount of time committees have devoted to oversight hearings since the post-1970s reform period that decentralized power in the House. Unknown thus far, though, is the extent to which members avail themselves of their opportunities to use hearings to monitor executive branch activities or what concerns might motivate such participation. Building on prior research on particip…
The Influence of Legislative Oversight on Discretionary Authority
Theories suggest that administrators may use their discretion to advance their agency’s version of the public interest, court political support, or both. The author hypothesizes that administrators courting political support use their discretion to reward legislators who monitor their programs more closely than do other legislators. The author measures the degree of scrutiny a program receives by quantifying members’participation in oversight hea…
Explaining Participation in Congressional Oversight Hearings
Scholarship on congressional oversight has documented an increase in the amount of time committees have devoted to oversight hearings since the post-1970s reform period that decentralized power in the House. Unknown thus far, though, is the extent to which members avail themselves of their opportunities to use hearings to monitor executive branch activities or what concerns might motivate such participation. Building on prior research on particip…
The Influence of Legislative Oversight on Discretionary Authority
Theories suggest that administrators may use their discretion to advance their agency’s version of the public interest, court political support, or both. The author hypothesizes that administrators courting political support use their discretion to reward legislators who monitor their programs more closely than do other legislators. The author measures the degree of scrutiny a program receives by quantifying members’participation in oversight hea…
Cold War, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy Spending Decisions
Conventional wisdom before the Vietnam War held that public opinion exerted no influence on U.S. foreign policy decisions. Scholars working in Vietnam's aftermath found episodic influence of public opinion on foreign policy, but missing in our understanding were longitudinal examinations of public opinion's influence on foreign policy. A number of post-Vietnam scholars subsequently revealed a long-term relationship between public opinion and defe…
The Influence of Legislative Oversight on Discretionary Authority
Theories suggest that administrators may use their discretion to advance their agency’s version of the public interest, court political support, or both. The author hypothesizes that administrators courting political support use their discretion to reward legislators who monitor their programs more closely than do other legislators. The author measures the degree of scrutiny a program receives by quantifying members’participation in oversight hea…
Explaining Participation in Congressional Oversight Hearings
Scholarship on congressional oversight has documented an increase in the amount of time committees have devoted to oversight hearings since the post-1970s reform period that decentralized power in the House. Unknown thus far, though, is the extent to which members avail themselves of their opportunities to use hearings to monitor executive branch activities or what concerns might motivate such participation. Building on prior research on particip…
Cold War, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy Spending Decisions
Conventional wisdom before the Vietnam War held that public opinion exerted no influence on U.S. foreign policy decisions. Scholars working in Vietnam's aftermath found episodic influence of public opinion on foreign policy, but missing in our understanding were longitudinal examinations of public opinion's influence on foreign policy. A number of post-Vietnam scholars subsequently revealed a long-term relationship between public opinion and defe…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (2 works) · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Legislature (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works) · Public Policy and Administration Research (2 works)