Harold L Wolman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4386705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Harold L Wolman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Harold L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wolman |
| SIGNATURE | WOLMAN H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wayne State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1966 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Understanding the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Areas in the United States
Examining the drivers of metropolitan economic performance, this paper models two dependent variables: change from 1990 to 2000 in gross metropolitan product and MSA employment. It is found that initial-year economic structure (an above average share of manufacturing employment), agglomeration economies, human capital (share of population with bachelor degrees or higher), and presence of state right-to-work laws are positively and significantly r…
Testing the Conventional Wisdom about Land Use and Traffic Congestion
The paper explores relationships between seven dimensions of land use in 1990 and subsequent levels of three traffic congestion outcomes in 2000 for a sample of 50 large US urban areas. Multiple regression models are developed to address several methodological concerns, including reverse causation and time-lags. Controlling for prior levels of congestion and changes in an urban area's transport network and relevant demographics, it is found that:…
What is a Central City in the United States? Applying a Statistical Technique for Developing Taxonomies
We test the null hypothesis that municipalities defined as central cities by the US Bureau of the Census in 1990 are homogeneous-a hypothesis we reject. Rather, we find that US central cities consist of 2 distinct subsets of municipalities that are aggregated from 13 cluster groupings. The article has two purposes. The first is methodological. We develop a method that uses cluster analysis to group US central cities; then we employ discriminant a…
Accounting for the Change in Income Disparities between US Central Cities and their Suburbs from 1980 to 1990
In this paper we are concerned with the widely acknowledged policy problem of substantially higher levels of per capita income in suburban areas of US metropolitan areas compared to that of their central cities. We focus on causes of changes in this per capita income gap from 1980 to 1990 (for those metropolitan areas where such a gap existed in 1980) in an effort to determine what factors are associated with narrowing of these disparities. We do…
City-Suburban Income Disparities and Metropolitan Area Employment
Were tight metropolitan labor markets in 1990 associated with narrow spatial income disparities between central cities and their suburbs? In U.S. national policy, it is assumed that maintaining high levels of national economic growth will attract inner-city poverty populations into the world of work, thereby reducing suburban-city income gaps. The authors examine the impact of tight labor markets on these disparities by developing regression mode…
The Assumptive World of Local Political Elites
Mayors' behavior is a reflection not only of constituent preferences but also of their own beliefs, values, and perceptions-their assumptive worlds. The authors analyze the responses of Detroit-area mayors to questions about their orientation to the local citizenry, perception of the most important role(s) of local government, task role(s), representative role, and perception of their power relative to other actors in the local political system. …
Response to Straw Men, Etc
Can Suburbs Survive without their Central Cities
Based on recent findings that changes in average suburban incomes are positively associated with changes in average central-city incomes, some have concluded that disparities between central cities and their suburbs cause decline in metropolitan economic growth. The authors argue that causality runs in the other direction—metropolitan-wide growth narrows disparities. The authors argue that cities and suburbs are interdependent, that there can be …
Evaluating the Success of Urban Success Stories
Arresting and reversing the condition of urban distress in America's cities represents one of the most challenging and perplexing problems confronting policy-makers. Indeed, urban distress in American cities has proved to be a stubborn and largely intractable phenomenon during the past two decades. Nevertheless, a number of cities that were experiencing distress at the beginning of the 1980s are now being acclaimed as 'urban success stories' or '…
The Role of the U. S. Senate Staff in the Opinion Linkage Process
A study was conducted to assess the opinion linkage process between Senators and their staff. On the issue of population and family planning the following relationships were examined: 1) between the staff and the Senators perception of public opinion 2) between these 2 perceptions and actual public opinion 3) between staff and Senator attitudes and 4) between staff perception of the Senators attitudes and the actual attitudes of the Senator. On t…
Black Interests, Black Groups, and Black Influence in the Federal Policy Process
The Presidency and Policy Formulation
EVERY MODERN PRESIDENT since Franklin D. Roosevelt has made important contributions to the presidency. This article concerns an innovation in the process of formulating presidential legislative programs in domestic policy areas-the systematic use of White House task forces. After an initial venture by John F. Kennedy, the task force device was extensively used by President Lyndon B. Johnson; it seems likely to be continued in some form by Richard…
Consistency and Roll Call Voting
Can Suburbs Survive without their Central Cities
Based on recent findings that changes in average suburban incomes are positively associated with changes in average central-city incomes, some have concluded that disparities between central cities and their suburbs cause decline in metropolitan economic growth. The authors argue that causality runs in the other direction—metropolitan-wide growth narrows disparities. The authors argue that cities and suburbs are interdependent, that there can be …
What is a Central City in the United States? Applying a Statistical Technique for Developing Taxonomies
We test the null hypothesis that municipalities defined as central cities by the US Bureau of the Census in 1990 are homogeneous-a hypothesis we reject. Rather, we find that US central cities consist of 2 distinct subsets of municipalities that are aggregated from 13 cluster groupings. The article has two purposes. The first is methodological. We develop a method that uses cluster analysis to group US central cities; then we employ discriminant a…
Evaluating the Success of Urban Success Stories
Arresting and reversing the condition of urban distress in America's cities represents one of the most challenging and perplexing problems confronting policy-makers. Indeed, urban distress in American cities has proved to be a stubborn and largely intractable phenomenon during the past two decades. Nevertheless, a number of cities that were experiencing distress at the beginning of the 1980s are now being acclaimed as 'urban success stories' or '…
City-Suburban Income Disparities and Metropolitan Area Employment
Were tight metropolitan labor markets in 1990 associated with narrow spatial income disparities between central cities and their suburbs? In U.S. national policy, it is assumed that maintaining high levels of national economic growth will attract inner-city poverty populations into the world of work, thereby reducing suburban-city income gaps. The authors examine the impact of tight labor markets on these disparities by developing regression mode…
Testing the Conventional Wisdom about Land Use and Traffic Congestion
The paper explores relationships between seven dimensions of land use in 1990 and subsequent levels of three traffic congestion outcomes in 2000 for a sample of 50 large US urban areas. Multiple regression models are developed to address several methodological concerns, including reverse causation and time-lags. Controlling for prior levels of congestion and changes in an urban area's transport network and relevant demographics, it is found that:…
Black Interests, Black Groups, and Black Influence in the Federal Policy Process
Understanding the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Areas in the United States
Examining the drivers of metropolitan economic performance, this paper models two dependent variables: change from 1990 to 2000 in gross metropolitan product and MSA employment. It is found that initial-year economic structure (an above average share of manufacturing employment), agglomeration economies, human capital (share of population with bachelor degrees or higher), and presence of state right-to-work laws are positively and significantly r…
Accounting for the Change in Income Disparities between US Central Cities and their Suburbs from 1980 to 1990
In this paper we are concerned with the widely acknowledged policy problem of substantially higher levels of per capita income in suburban areas of US metropolitan areas compared to that of their central cities. We focus on causes of changes in this per capita income gap from 1980 to 1990 (for those metropolitan areas where such a gap existed in 1980) in an effort to determine what factors are associated with narrowing of these disparities. We do…
The Presidency and Policy Formulation
EVERY MODERN PRESIDENT since Franklin D. Roosevelt has made important contributions to the presidency. This article concerns an innovation in the process of formulating presidential legislative programs in domestic policy areas-the systematic use of White House task forces. After an initial venture by John F. Kennedy, the task force device was extensively used by President Lyndon B. Johnson; it seems likely to be continued in some form by Richard…
The Role of the U. S. Senate Staff in the Opinion Linkage Process
A study was conducted to assess the opinion linkage process between Senators and their staff. On the issue of population and family planning the following relationships were examined: 1) between the staff and the Senators perception of public opinion 2) between these 2 perceptions and actual public opinion 3) between staff and Senator attitudes and 4) between staff perception of the Senators attitudes and the actual attitudes of the Senator. On t…
Consistency and Roll Call Voting
The Presidency and Policy Formulation
EVERY MODERN PRESIDENT since Franklin D. Roosevelt has made important contributions to the presidency. This article concerns an innovation in the process of formulating presidential legislative programs in domestic policy areas-the systematic use of White House task forces. After an initial venture by John F. Kennedy, the task force device was extensively used by President Lyndon B. Johnson; it seems likely to be continued in some form by Richard…
Black Interests, Black Groups, and Black Influence in the Federal Policy Process
The Role of the U. S. Senate Staff in the Opinion Linkage Process
A study was conducted to assess the opinion linkage process between Senators and their staff. On the issue of population and family planning the following relationships were examined: 1) between the staff and the Senators perception of public opinion 2) between these 2 perceptions and actual public opinion 3) between staff and Senator attitudes and 4) between staff perception of the Senators attitudes and the actual attitudes of the Senator. On t…
Evaluating the Success of Urban Success Stories
Arresting and reversing the condition of urban distress in America's cities represents one of the most challenging and perplexing problems confronting policy-makers. Indeed, urban distress in American cities has proved to be a stubborn and largely intractable phenomenon during the past two decades. Nevertheless, a number of cities that were experiencing distress at the beginning of the 1980s are now being acclaimed as 'urban success stories' or '…
Response to Straw Men, Etc
Can Suburbs Survive without their Central Cities
Based on recent findings that changes in average suburban incomes are positively associated with changes in average central-city incomes, some have concluded that disparities between central cities and their suburbs cause decline in metropolitan economic growth. The authors argue that causality runs in the other direction—metropolitan-wide growth narrows disparities. The authors argue that cities and suburbs are interdependent, that there can be …
The Assumptive World of Local Political Elites
Mayors' behavior is a reflection not only of constituent preferences but also of their own beliefs, values, and perceptions-their assumptive worlds. The authors analyze the responses of Detroit-area mayors to questions about their orientation to the local citizenry, perception of the most important role(s) of local government, task role(s), representative role, and perception of their power relative to other actors in the local political system. …
Accounting for the Change in Income Disparities between US Central Cities and their Suburbs from 1980 to 1990
In this paper we are concerned with the widely acknowledged policy problem of substantially higher levels of per capita income in suburban areas of US metropolitan areas compared to that of their central cities. We focus on causes of changes in this per capita income gap from 1980 to 1990 (for those metropolitan areas where such a gap existed in 1980) in an effort to determine what factors are associated with narrowing of these disparities. We do…
City-Suburban Income Disparities and Metropolitan Area Employment
Were tight metropolitan labor markets in 1990 associated with narrow spatial income disparities between central cities and their suburbs? In U.S. national policy, it is assumed that maintaining high levels of national economic growth will attract inner-city poverty populations into the world of work, thereby reducing suburban-city income gaps. The authors examine the impact of tight labor markets on these disparities by developing regression mode…
What is a Central City in the United States? Applying a Statistical Technique for Developing Taxonomies
We test the null hypothesis that municipalities defined as central cities by the US Bureau of the Census in 1990 are homogeneous-a hypothesis we reject. Rather, we find that US central cities consist of 2 distinct subsets of municipalities that are aggregated from 13 cluster groupings. The article has two purposes. The first is methodological. We develop a method that uses cluster analysis to group US central cities; then we employ discriminant a…
Testing the Conventional Wisdom about Land Use and Traffic Congestion
The paper explores relationships between seven dimensions of land use in 1990 and subsequent levels of three traffic congestion outcomes in 2000 for a sample of 50 large US urban areas. Multiple regression models are developed to address several methodological concerns, including reverse causation and time-lags. Controlling for prior levels of congestion and changes in an urban area's transport network and relevant demographics, it is found that:…
Understanding the Economic Performance of Metropolitan Areas in the United States
Examining the drivers of metropolitan economic performance, this paper models two dependent variables: change from 1990 to 2000 in gross metropolitan product and MSA employment. It is found that initial-year economic structure (an above average share of manufacturing employment), agglomeration economies, human capital (share of population with bachelor degrees or higher), and presence of state right-to-work laws are positively and significantly r…
Economics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Metropolitan area (6 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Demography (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Population (5 works)