Jane M Fraser
Biographic Data
| ID | 4386587 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jane M Fraser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jane M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fraser |
| SIGNATURE | FRASER J M |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Judging Presidential Performance on House & Senate Roll Calls
How successful should we expect presidents to be in their relationships with the House and Senate? An answer to this question is central to making informed judgments about their effectiveness. Professors Hammond and Fraser show how quantitative and circumstance-sensitive standards for judging presidential performance can be developed. Applying these standards to presidents from Eisenhower to Carter, they suggest that the reputations of some of th…
Baselines for Evaluating Explanations of Coalition Behavior in Congress
Students of Congress sometimes interpret congressional history in terms of the rise and fall of coalitions among the parties and factions. What standard should be used to judge explanations of why these coalitions form when they do and why they win? We argue that for an explanation to be judged an advance in knowledge it should account for events better than a model based purely on chance. In this paper we determine how often various coalitions c…
Null Hypothesis Models in Legislative Studies
What Roll Calls Should We Exclude from Conservative Coalition Calculations
Legislative roll-call analysts often exclude from consideration roll calls which show only minimal amounts of conflict. There is no agreement on what this minimal amount should be: some analysts exclude only unanimous roll calls, for example, while others exclude roll calls on which the minority receives as much as 20 percent of the total votes cast. When calculating the frequency with which assorted alliances-such as the in Congress-occur on rol…
Baselines for Evaluating Explanations of Coalition Behavior in Congress
Students of Congress sometimes interpret congressional history in terms of the rise and fall of coalitions among the parties and factions. What standard should be used to judge explanations of why these coalitions form when they do and why they win? We argue that for an explanation to be judged an advance in knowledge it should account for events better than a model based purely on chance. In this paper we determine how often various coalitions c…
Judging Presidential Performance on House & Senate Roll Calls
How successful should we expect presidents to be in their relationships with the House and Senate? An answer to this question is central to making informed judgments about their effectiveness. Professors Hammond and Fraser show how quantitative and circumstance-sensitive standards for judging presidential performance can be developed. Applying these standards to presidents from Eisenhower to Carter, they suggest that the reputations of some of th…
What Roll Calls Should We Exclude from Conservative Coalition Calculations
Legislative roll-call analysts often exclude from consideration roll calls which show only minimal amounts of conflict. There is no agreement on what this minimal amount should be: some analysts exclude only unanimous roll calls, for example, while others exclude roll calls on which the minority receives as much as 20 percent of the total votes cast. When calculating the frequency with which assorted alliances-such as the in Congress-occur on rol…
Null Hypothesis Models in Legislative Studies
What Roll Calls Should We Exclude from Conservative Coalition Calculations
Legislative roll-call analysts often exclude from consideration roll calls which show only minimal amounts of conflict. There is no agreement on what this minimal amount should be: some analysts exclude only unanimous roll calls, for example, while others exclude roll calls on which the minority receives as much as 20 percent of the total votes cast. When calculating the frequency with which assorted alliances-such as the in Congress-occur on rol…
Baselines for Evaluating Explanations of Coalition Behavior in Congress
Students of Congress sometimes interpret congressional history in terms of the rise and fall of coalitions among the parties and factions. What standard should be used to judge explanations of why these coalitions form when they do and why they win? We argue that for an explanation to be judged an advance in knowledge it should account for events better than a model based purely on chance. In this paper we determine how often various coalitions c…
Null Hypothesis Models in Legislative Studies
Judging Presidential Performance on House & Senate Roll Calls
How successful should we expect presidents to be in their relationships with the House and Senate? An answer to this question is central to making informed judgments about their effectiveness. Professors Hammond and Fraser show how quantitative and circumstance-sensitive standards for judging presidential performance can be developed. Applying these standards to presidents from Eisenhower to Carter, they suggest that the reputations of some of th…
Electoral Systems and Political Participation (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Political Systems and Governance (2 works) · Public Administration (2 works)