David A Bateman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4372059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Bateman |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bateman |
| SIGNATURE | BATEMAN D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2469-3556 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy
Democracy-Reinforcing Hardball: Can Breaking Democratic Norms Preserve Democratic Values
The threat of democratic backsliding has prompted growing interest in “hardball,” the pursuit of legal and constitutional changes with the intended purpose of biasing outcomes in favor of one party over others. Such actions can be allowed under existing constitutional and legal rules, but are in tension with norms that these rules ought to be insulated from the contest for power. This paper provides a new definition of what I call democracy-reinf…
When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice
In recent decades, popular sovereignty has come under increasing pressure. The rise of populism, often illiberal or authoritarian, has undermined minority rights, individual autonomy, and rule of law. The expansion of international institutions and greater reliance on market and non-governmental organizations have gradually insulated large areas of policymaking from public control. In turn, these developments cast doubt on the viability and desir…
Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery
The legacies of slavery have shaped nearly all aspects of American politics. Acharya, Blackwell, and Sen’s Deep Roots: How Slavery Shapes Southern Politics deploys sophisticated methods of causal inference to empirically identify one of these legacies: the enduring impact that slavery has had on white southerners’ racial attitudes. An important part of their causal argument is the role of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which they argue was the…
The South in American Political Development
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in southern distinctiveness within the United States and its ramifications for the nation. This review provides an analysis of recent works and the interpretive issues they raise. I argue that collectively they have broken with the long-established image of the South in political science, the study of which was long organized around the region's anticipated convergence to the patterns of the post–New Deal…
Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V
Article V of the U.S. Constitution, which establishes the formal amendment procedure, sets perhaps the highest bar to reform of any national constitution, discouraging amendment. But despite these challenges, members of Congress have proposed nearly twelve thousand constitutional amendments, with most introduced after the New Deal, raising questions about why members engage in such seemingly futile efforts. We argue that the rise of judicial powe…
The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock
Wirls, Daniel. The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2021. 278 Pages. $95 (Hardcover); $34.50 (Softcover)." Congress & the Presidency, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861–1918
In January 1891, almost a year after the federal elections bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, it was defeated in the Senate. What followed was the near-total disenfranchisement of southern Black voters and the consolidation of the provincial state and cliquish localities as the institutional sites in which most electoral rules—from registration to counting ballots—would be set. We are still grappling with the consequences. …
Party Politics and American Racial Orders
Patterns of Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin and Acute Kidney Injury in Neonates Receiving Cardiopulmonary Bypass
After 4 h until 16 h post-operatively, elevated uNGAL is associated with AKI in neonates receiving CPB during cardiac surgery; however, this relationship is more complex than in older children
Response to Bullock et al.’s review of Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A developmental approach to historical causal inference
Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785–1868
I offer a new perspective on the history of American democratization, tracing the evolution of conflict over black suffrage from the disenfranchisements of the early Republic to efforts to secure equal voting rights in the pre-Civil War era. I draw on case studies and new data on state politics to substantially expand our descriptive understanding of the ideological connotations of African American political rights. In contrast to existing litera…
Transatlantic Anxieties: Democracy and Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Discourse
This article reconstructs a set of widely disseminated nineteenth-century ideas about the relationship between diversity and democracy and details how these informed state-building and political action. An emerging argument in nineteenth-century discourse held that representative governments in diverse societies would degenerate into anarchy without “amalgamation,” extermination, expulsion, or enslavement: Only in societies where there was sympat…
Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
No question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. This book examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions from Reconstruction to the New Deal—and along the way remade the region and the nation in their own image. The central paradox of southern politics was how such a highly diverse region could be transformed into a coherent and unified bloc. This book shows h…
Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France
The first wave of democratization in the United States - the removal of property and taxpaying qualifications for the right to vote - was accompanied by the disenfranchisement of African American men, with the political actors most supportive of the former also the most insistent upon the latter. The United States is not unique in this respect: other canonical cases of democratization also saw simultaneous expansions and restrictions of political…
A House Divided? Roll Calls, Polarization, and Policy Differences in the U.S. House, 1877–2011
The study of political conflict in legislatures is fundamental to understanding the nature of governance, but also difficult because of changes in membership and the issues addressed over time. Focusing on the enduring issue of civil rights in the United States since Reconstruction, we show that using current methods and measures to characterize elite ideological disagreements makes it hard to interpret or reconcile the conflicts with historical …
An Inherent Tension Within Populist Rhetoric
Populist rhetoric in America contains two essential features: first, a sharp critique of economic and political life and, second, a call for broader participation by the people that will set things right in response to an elite whose actions brought about contemporary problems. Past work generally assumes that the two goals inherent in this rhetoric – its educative critique and its exhortation to action – are compatible with each other. However, …
Race, Party, and American Voting Rights
There are few advanced democracies that simultaneously make voting as easy and as difficult as the US. This essay outlines some of the recent changes in voting rights and election law, with a particular attention to the causes and consequences of restrictive changes. I argue that both historically and today this pattern has been driven by strategic partisan calculation, which in the American context almost necessarily results in patterns of acces…
Ideal Points and American Political Development: Beyond DW-Nominate
This article aims to persuade historically oriented political scientists that ideal point techniques such as DW-NOMINATE can illuminate much about politics and lawmaking and be very useful to better understanding some of the key questions put forward by American political development (APD) scholars. We believe that there are many lines of inquiry of interest to APD scholars where ideal point measure could be useful, but which have been effectivel…
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
“In no nation, by no Legislature, was ever so much done in so short a period for the establishment of Government, Order, public Credit & general tranquility.” So wrote John Trumbull, a Hartford lawyer, in a letter to John Adams at the close of the First Federal Congress (p. 13). Fergus M. Bordewich tells us the story of this Congress, sketching its principal characters and the momentous decisions that have defined the structure of American govern…
Southern Politics Revisited: On V. O. Key's “South in the House”
V. O. Key's Southern Politics in State and Nation continues to be a central text in political science, the single most important work in understanding the role of the South in American politics. This article returns to, replicates, and seeks to advance Key's analysis of southern politics in Congress, reanalyzing and extending his account of southern strategies and actions in the House of Representatives. Where Key's text was characterized by an e…
Hairspray (review)
When the lights come up on Marissa Jaret Winokur in the opening number of the musical version of John Waters' film Hairspray, one is immediately engaged by the combination of classic [End Page 719] [Begin Page 721] set design (a vertical bed) and a fresh Broadway voice that punches out the all important first number with the distinction of an Ethel Merman or a Carol Channing. Winokur's sharp, infectious vocals strikingly intone the "Oh, Oh, Oh" o…
The effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure in newborns
OBJECTIVES. We sought to determine the effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure in newborns, in an inner-city population in which cocaine use during pregnancy was common. METHODS. During a 1-year period, 12.8% (361 of 2810) of all live singleton infants at Harlem Hospital in New York were identified as cocaine exposed, either by universal urine toxicologic screening or by maternal history. Cocaine-exposed infants were compared with a control grou…
Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
A developmental approach to historical causal inference
Ideal Points and American Political Development: Beyond DW-Nominate
This article aims to persuade historically oriented political scientists that ideal point techniques such as DW-NOMINATE can illuminate much about politics and lawmaking and be very useful to better understanding some of the key questions put forward by American political development (APD) scholars. We believe that there are many lines of inquiry of interest to APD scholars where ideal point measure could be useful, but which have been effectivel…
The effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure in newborns
OBJECTIVES. We sought to determine the effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure in newborns, in an inner-city population in which cocaine use during pregnancy was common. METHODS. During a 1-year period, 12.8% (361 of 2810) of all live singleton infants at Harlem Hospital in New York were identified as cocaine exposed, either by universal urine toxicologic screening or by maternal history. Cocaine-exposed infants were compared with a control grou…
Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785–1868
I offer a new perspective on the history of American democratization, tracing the evolution of conflict over black suffrage from the disenfranchisements of the early Republic to efforts to secure equal voting rights in the pre-Civil War era. I draw on case studies and new data on state politics to substantially expand our descriptive understanding of the ideological connotations of African American political rights. In contrast to existing litera…
The South in American Political Development
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in southern distinctiveness within the United States and its ramifications for the nation. This review provides an analysis of recent works and the interpretive issues they raise. I argue that collectively they have broken with the long-established image of the South in political science, the study of which was long organized around the region's anticipated convergence to the patterns of the post–New Deal…
Democracy-Reinforcing Hardball: Can Breaking Democratic Norms Preserve Democratic Values
The threat of democratic backsliding has prompted growing interest in “hardball,” the pursuit of legal and constitutional changes with the intended purpose of biasing outcomes in favor of one party over others. Such actions can be allowed under existing constitutional and legal rules, but are in tension with norms that these rules ought to be insulated from the contest for power. This paper provides a new definition of what I call democracy-reinf…
Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery
The legacies of slavery have shaped nearly all aspects of American politics. Acharya, Blackwell, and Sen’s Deep Roots: How Slavery Shapes Southern Politics deploys sophisticated methods of causal inference to empirically identify one of these legacies: the enduring impact that slavery has had on white southerners’ racial attitudes. An important part of their causal argument is the role of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which they argue was the…
Race, Party, and American Voting Rights
There are few advanced democracies that simultaneously make voting as easy and as difficult as the US. This essay outlines some of the recent changes in voting rights and election law, with a particular attention to the causes and consequences of restrictive changes. I argue that both historically and today this pattern has been driven by strategic partisan calculation, which in the American context almost necessarily results in patterns of acces…
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy
Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V
Article V of the U.S. Constitution, which establishes the formal amendment procedure, sets perhaps the highest bar to reform of any national constitution, discouraging amendment. But despite these challenges, members of Congress have proposed nearly twelve thousand constitutional amendments, with most introduced after the New Deal, raising questions about why members engage in such seemingly futile efforts. We argue that the rise of judicial powe…
Transatlantic Anxieties: Democracy and Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Discourse
This article reconstructs a set of widely disseminated nineteenth-century ideas about the relationship between diversity and democracy and details how these informed state-building and political action. An emerging argument in nineteenth-century discourse held that representative governments in diverse societies would degenerate into anarchy without “amalgamation,” extermination, expulsion, or enslavement: Only in societies where there was sympat…
Southern Politics Revisited: On V. O. Key's “South in the House”
V. O. Key's Southern Politics in State and Nation continues to be a central text in political science, the single most important work in understanding the role of the South in American politics. This article returns to, replicates, and seeks to advance Key's analysis of southern politics in Congress, reanalyzing and extending his account of southern strategies and actions in the House of Representatives. Where Key's text was characterized by an e…
The effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure in newborns
OBJECTIVES. We sought to determine the effects of intrauterine cocaine exposure in newborns, in an inner-city population in which cocaine use during pregnancy was common. METHODS. During a 1-year period, 12.8% (361 of 2810) of all live singleton infants at Harlem Hospital in New York were identified as cocaine exposed, either by universal urine toxicologic screening or by maternal history. Cocaine-exposed infants were compared with a control grou…
Hairspray (review)
When the lights come up on Marissa Jaret Winokur in the opening number of the musical version of John Waters' film Hairspray, one is immediately engaged by the combination of classic [End Page 719] [Begin Page 721] set design (a vertical bed) and a fresh Broadway voice that punches out the all important first number with the distinction of an Ethel Merman or a Carol Channing. Winokur's sharp, infectious vocals strikingly intone the "Oh, Oh, Oh" o…
Southern Politics Revisited: On V. O. Key's “South in the House”
V. O. Key's Southern Politics in State and Nation continues to be a central text in political science, the single most important work in understanding the role of the South in American politics. This article returns to, replicates, and seeks to advance Key's analysis of southern politics in Congress, reanalyzing and extending his account of southern strategies and actions in the House of Representatives. Where Key's text was characterized by an e…
An Inherent Tension Within Populist Rhetoric
Populist rhetoric in America contains two essential features: first, a sharp critique of economic and political life and, second, a call for broader participation by the people that will set things right in response to an elite whose actions brought about contemporary problems. Past work generally assumes that the two goals inherent in this rhetoric – its educative critique and its exhortation to action – are compatible with each other. However, …
Race, Party, and American Voting Rights
There are few advanced democracies that simultaneously make voting as easy and as difficult as the US. This essay outlines some of the recent changes in voting rights and election law, with a particular attention to the causes and consequences of restrictive changes. I argue that both historically and today this pattern has been driven by strategic partisan calculation, which in the American context almost necessarily results in patterns of acces…
Ideal Points and American Political Development: Beyond DW-Nominate
This article aims to persuade historically oriented political scientists that ideal point techniques such as DW-NOMINATE can illuminate much about politics and lawmaking and be very useful to better understanding some of the key questions put forward by American political development (APD) scholars. We believe that there are many lines of inquiry of interest to APD scholars where ideal point measure could be useful, but which have been effectivel…
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government
“In no nation, by no Legislature, was ever so much done in so short a period for the establishment of Government, Order, public Credit & general tranquility.” So wrote John Trumbull, a Hartford lawyer, in a letter to John Adams at the close of the First Federal Congress (p. 13). Fergus M. Bordewich tells us the story of this Congress, sketching its principal characters and the momentous decisions that have defined the structure of American govern…
A House Divided? Roll Calls, Polarization, and Policy Differences in the U.S. House, 1877–2011
The study of political conflict in legislatures is fundamental to understanding the nature of governance, but also difficult because of changes in membership and the issues addressed over time. Focusing on the enduring issue of civil rights in the United States since Reconstruction, we show that using current methods and measures to characterize elite ideological disagreements makes it hard to interpret or reconcile the conflicts with historical …
Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
No question has loomed larger in the American experience than the role of the South. This book examines how southern members of Congress shaped national public policy and American institutions from Reconstruction to the New Deal—and along the way remade the region and the nation in their own image. The central paradox of southern politics was how such a highly diverse region could be transformed into a coherent and unified bloc. This book shows h…
Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
Disenfranchising Democracy: Constructing the Electorate in the United States, the United Kingdom, and France
The first wave of democratization in the United States - the removal of property and taxpaying qualifications for the right to vote - was accompanied by the disenfranchisement of African American men, with the political actors most supportive of the former also the most insistent upon the latter. The United States is not unique in this respect: other canonical cases of democratization also saw simultaneous expansions and restrictions of political…
Transatlantic Anxieties: Democracy and Diversity in Nineteenth-Century Discourse
This article reconstructs a set of widely disseminated nineteenth-century ideas about the relationship between diversity and democracy and details how these informed state-building and political action. An emerging argument in nineteenth-century discourse held that representative governments in diverse societies would degenerate into anarchy without “amalgamation,” extermination, expulsion, or enslavement: Only in societies where there was sympat…
Patterns of Urinary Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin and Acute Kidney Injury in Neonates Receiving Cardiopulmonary Bypass
After 4 h until 16 h post-operatively, elevated uNGAL is associated with AKI in neonates receiving CPB during cardiac surgery; however, this relationship is more complex than in older children
Response to Bullock et al.’s review of Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
A developmental approach to historical causal inference
Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785–1868
I offer a new perspective on the history of American democratization, tracing the evolution of conflict over black suffrage from the disenfranchisements of the early Republic to efforts to secure equal voting rights in the pre-Civil War era. I draw on case studies and new data on state politics to substantially expand our descriptive understanding of the ideological connotations of African American political rights. In contrast to existing litera…
Party Politics and American Racial Orders
Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V
Article V of the U.S. Constitution, which establishes the formal amendment procedure, sets perhaps the highest bar to reform of any national constitution, discouraging amendment. But despite these challenges, members of Congress have proposed nearly twelve thousand constitutional amendments, with most introduced after the New Deal, raising questions about why members engage in such seemingly futile efforts. We argue that the rise of judicial powe…
The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock
Wirls, Daniel. The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock . Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia Press, 2021. 278 Pages. $95 (Hardcover); $34.50 (Softcover)." Congress & the Presidency, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Congress and the First Civil Rights Era, 1861–1918
In January 1891, almost a year after the federal elections bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives, it was defeated in the Senate. What followed was the near-total disenfranchisement of southern Black voters and the consolidation of the provincial state and cliquish localities as the institutional sites in which most electoral rules—from registration to counting ballots—would be set. We are still grappling with the consequences. …
When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice
In recent decades, popular sovereignty has come under increasing pressure. The rise of populism, often illiberal or authoritarian, has undermined minority rights, individual autonomy, and rule of law. The expansion of international institutions and greater reliance on market and non-governmental organizations have gradually insulated large areas of policymaking from public control. In turn, these developments cast doubt on the viability and desir…
Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery
The legacies of slavery have shaped nearly all aspects of American politics. Acharya, Blackwell, and Sen’s Deep Roots: How Slavery Shapes Southern Politics deploys sophisticated methods of causal inference to empirically identify one of these legacies: the enduring impact that slavery has had on white southerners’ racial attitudes. An important part of their causal argument is the role of the Civil War and Reconstruction, which they argue was the…
The South in American Political Development
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in southern distinctiveness within the United States and its ramifications for the nation. This review provides an analysis of recent works and the interpretive issues they raise. I argue that collectively they have broken with the long-established image of the South in political science, the study of which was long organized around the region's anticipated convergence to the patterns of the post–New Deal…
Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy
Democracy-Reinforcing Hardball: Can Breaking Democratic Norms Preserve Democratic Values
The threat of democratic backsliding has prompted growing interest in “hardball,” the pursuit of legal and constitutional changes with the intended purpose of biasing outcomes in favor of one party over others. Such actions can be allowed under existing constitutional and legal rules, but are in tension with norms that these rules ought to be insulated from the contest for power. This paper provides a new definition of what I call democracy-reinf…
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