Matthew Laing
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373246 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Matthew Laing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Matthew |
| FAMILY NAME | Laing |
| SIGNATURE | LAING M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Partisanship, policy entrepreneurs and the market for ideas
The Office of Living Victoria (OLV), was established in 2011 by the then Liberal-National Party Coalition Government. It was created in response to a water crisis and intended to revolutionise water management and delivery, challenging established authorities and practices consolidated under the previous Labor government in Victoria. There was a decidedly partisan motivation for its conception. The drive for new ideas and innovation created oppor…
Policy-makers perspectives on credibility, relevance and legitimacy (CRELE)
The Impossible Leadership Situation? Analyzing Success for Disjunctive Presidents
This article argues that the way we understand presidential success should be different for presidents in different contexts. It provides the first deeper exploration of success for Skowronek's “disjunctive” presidents and finds that, particularly when these presidents engage in policy experimentation, they can play an important role in preparing the way for a later reconstruction. Although the presidents of disjunction are particularly constrain…
Scientists versus policy-makers
Hard acts to follow
In this article, using our original data on party leadership succession in 23 parliamentary democracies, we investigate the determinants of a party leader’s survival rate: how long he/she remains in office. Unlike previous studies, which focus on institutional settings of leadership selection or on situational (political, economic and international) conditions at the time of succession, we propose a perceptual theory of leadership survival, focus…
Towards a Pragmatic Presidency? Exploring the Waning of Political Time
In his landmark work The Politics Presidents Make, Stephen Skowronek concludes that an earlier cycle of presidential politics in America is fading. Calling this phenomenon the "waning of political time," he predicts the declining importance of the president as a source of political change in American politics, and makes the conjecture that in the future, presidents will act more pragmatically and will more frequently clash with office holders in …
Hard acts to follow
In this article, using our original data on party leadership succession in 23 parliamentary democracies, we investigate the determinants of a party leader’s survival rate: how long he/she remains in office. Unlike previous studies, which focus on institutional settings of leadership selection or on situational (political, economic and international) conditions at the time of succession, we propose a perceptual theory of leadership survival, focus…
Policy-makers perspectives on credibility, relevance and legitimacy (CRELE)
Towards a Pragmatic Presidency? Exploring the Waning of Political Time
In his landmark work The Politics Presidents Make, Stephen Skowronek concludes that an earlier cycle of presidential politics in America is fading. Calling this phenomenon the "waning of political time," he predicts the declining importance of the president as a source of political change in American politics, and makes the conjecture that in the future, presidents will act more pragmatically and will more frequently clash with office holders in …
Scientists versus policy-makers
Towards a Pragmatic Presidency? Exploring the Waning of Political Time
In his landmark work The Politics Presidents Make, Stephen Skowronek concludes that an earlier cycle of presidential politics in America is fading. Calling this phenomenon the "waning of political time," he predicts the declining importance of the president as a source of political change in American politics, and makes the conjecture that in the future, presidents will act more pragmatically and will more frequently clash with office holders in …
Hard acts to follow
In this article, using our original data on party leadership succession in 23 parliamentary democracies, we investigate the determinants of a party leader’s survival rate: how long he/she remains in office. Unlike previous studies, which focus on institutional settings of leadership selection or on situational (political, economic and international) conditions at the time of succession, we propose a perceptual theory of leadership survival, focus…
Scientists versus policy-makers
Policy-makers perspectives on credibility, relevance and legitimacy (CRELE)
The Impossible Leadership Situation? Analyzing Success for Disjunctive Presidents
This article argues that the way we understand presidential success should be different for presidents in different contexts. It provides the first deeper exploration of success for Skowronek's “disjunctive” presidents and finds that, particularly when these presidents engage in policy experimentation, they can play an important role in preparing the way for a later reconstruction. Although the presidents of disjunction are particularly constrain…
Partisanship, policy entrepreneurs and the market for ideas
The Office of Living Victoria (OLV), was established in 2011 by the then Liberal-National Party Coalition Government. It was created in response to a water crisis and intended to revolutionise water management and delivery, challenging established authorities and practices consolidated under the previous Labor government in Victoria. There was a decidedly partisan motivation for its conception. The drive for new ideas and innovation created oppor…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public Administration (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Political economy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Electoral Systems and Political Participation (3 works)