Ann O'M Bowman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4532337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann O'M Bowman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann O'M |
| FAMILY NAME | Bowman |
| SIGNATURE | BOWMAN A O M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 197 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Collective Action and the Evolution of Intergovernmental Cooperation
Voluntary cooperation among governments holds tremendous promise for solving policy problems with regional and national scope. In this article, we apply insights from the theory of institutional collective action to understand the evolution of cooperative governmental institutions. We address the question: What makes a government decide to exit an existing cooperative arrangement and join a new one with a stronger central authority? Our empirical…
Special-purpose authorities: A welcomed alien to decentralization in Lebanon
Countries in transition face numerous political and economic challenges often exacerbated by persistent corruption and internecine religious conflict. In Lebanon, existing local governments have proven ineffective at providing many public services, especially those with spillover effects and externalities. This article proposes a structural change: the introduction of special-purpose local authorities to provide a single service transcending the …
Policy Innovativeness and Interstate Compacts
Are someAmerican states inherently more innovative than others? This question has confounded researchers for more than four decades. In this study we develop a measure of collective policy innovation that measures formal cooperative policy arrangements among the states, compare the measure to existing measures of internal state policy innovation, and assess whether existing innovativeness measures explain policy cooperation among the states. This…
Blurring Borders: The Effect of Federal Activism on Interstate Cooperation
Interstate compacts are an increasingly important policy tool available to states, one that allows them to tackle regional and national issues. What effect does policy activity at the federal level have on state participation in interstate compacts? Drawing on theories of functional federalism, the authors explore the possibility that a state’s response to federal activism varies across policy domains. For economic policy the authors hypothesize …
Expanding the Scope of Conflict: Interest Groups and Interstate Compacts
This study looks at how the characteristics of states' interest group environments affect state participation in interstate compacts. Drawing on prominent theories of interest system characteristics, we hypothesize that interest group density and concentration will influence a state's propensity to join compacts. Method. Using pooled cross-sectional time-series event-count models, we test our hypotheses for 48 states over a 30-year period. Result…
Governors Turn Pro: Separation of Powers and the Institutionalization of the American Governorship
This study examines the institutional development of governors’ offices. Pooled analyses from 1983 to 2004 indicate that government growth and workload foster institutionalization, as does rivalry with the legislature. Bargaining relationships with external actors appear to have more limited impact. The authors also find that the dispersion of authority within the executive branch plays a significant role in explaining the development of institut…
Strength in Numbers: Why States Join Interstate Compacts
Interstate compacts hold tremendous promise for resolving tough public problems at the subnational level. They have also been promoted as one way that states can protect their sovereignty vis-à-vis the national government. But the rate at which states participate in such compacts varies widely. Thus, we ask: What explains a state's propensity to join national interstate compacts? Using time-series cross-sectional event count models of state compa…
The State of American Federalism, 1994–1995
Federalism, as a concept and as a reality, received assistance from a variety of sources during 1994–1995. Opinion polls revealed a public strongly supportive of shifts in the balance of power between federal and state governments. The new Republican-controlled Congress, bent on devolving authority to the states, busied itself with an ambitious legislative agenda. The Democratic President pursued his principles of federalism and intergovernmental…
The State of American Federalism, 1993–1994
Journal Article The State of American Federalism, 1993–1994 Get access Ann O'M. Bowman, Ann O'M. Bowman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael A. Pagano Michael A. Pagano Miami University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 24, Issue 3, Summer 1994, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournal…
City Intervention: An Analysis of the Public Capital Mobilization Process
City governments are actively involved in enhancing the development potential of their territories. They mobilize public capital to influence development. In this article, a conceptual framework is constructed around two factors that trigger the mobilization of public capital: (1) a perception of imbalance between a city's competitive tax burden and service-delivery levels and (2) city officials' vision of the appropriate place for their city ami…
The State of American Federalism, 1990–1991
Journal Article The State of American Federalism, 1990–1991 Get access Michael A. Pagano, Michael A. Pagano Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ann O'M. Bowman, Ann O'M. Bowman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Kincaid John Kincaid U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Implementing Environmental Policy in a Federal System: A Test of the Sabatier-Mazmanian Model
Implementation research has been impeded by a variety of conceptual and methodological difficulties, some of which this articles hopes to remedy. It examines the regulation of hazardous waste in the fifty states and, using the conceptual framework developed by Sabatier and Mazmanian, identifies the factors that inhibit policy implementation. The authors focus specifically on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 and find that state i…
Competition for Economic Development among Southeastern Cities
Economic development, in its most general sense, is a process through which a community's material and social well-being is increased. For American cities, the interaction of federalism and capitalism makes the pursuit of economic development a competitive process. This study assesses the nature and extent of interjurisdictional competition for economic development by surveying 84 public- and private-sector actors in 31 Southeastern cities. The f…
Dimensions of State Government Capability
POLITICAL system performance depends to a great extent on institutional capacity. As a result, institutions are the objects of continuous attempts at reform and modernization. These transformational efforts are undertaken to attain the somewhat nebulous goals of improvement and capacity building. The frequency, comprehensiveness, and impact of these exercises are likely a function of the larger political context. The last twenty years have found …
Public Policy Implementation: Evolution of the Field and Agenda for Future Research
Hazardous Waste Management: An Emerging Policy Area Within an Emerging Federalism
Journal Article Hazardous Waste Management: An Emerging Policy Area Within an Emerging Federalism Get access Ann O'M. Bowman Ann O'M. Bowman University of South California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 1985, Pages 131–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037519 Published: 01 January 1985
Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Superfund Implementation in the Southeast
Physical Attractiveness and Electability: Looks and Votes
The link between physical attractiveness and electability is explored in this aricle. "Looks" are the sole cue in an experimental voting situation; and subjects "vote" for males they have previously rated attractive but treat attractive female candidates quite differently. Subjects, male and female, are more likely to vote for women they consider less attractive. While the overall pattern does not change significantly according to the type of off…
Physical attractiveness and electability: Looks and votes
Intergovernmental and Intersectoral Tensions in Environmental Olicy Implementation: The Case of Hazardous Waste
Superfund-the federal government's program to clean up toxic waste sites-was designed to promote cooperative interaction between levels of government and w ith the private sector. Implementation of the program has, produced a web of tensions instead. The tensions have been intergovernmental and intersectoral. As this examination of the cleanup of four South Carolina sites reveals, these tensions have served to delay and distort the implementation…
Hazardous Wastes, Politics, and Public Policy: A Comparative State Analysis
growth, industrial expansion, and technological change upon environment. One of major public policy issues to emerge recently is concern over public health and safety associated with (chemical) wastes. Dramatic incidents, such as kepone dumping James River, Valley of Drums incident Kentucky, and damage apparently caused by Love Canal chemical disposal sites, have served as catalysts mobilizing public interest responsible management of wastes. The…
Dimensions of State Government Capability
POLITICAL system performance depends to a great extent on institutional capacity. As a result, institutions are the objects of continuous attempts at reform and modernization. These transformational efforts are undertaken to attain the somewhat nebulous goals of improvement and capacity building. The frequency, comprehensiveness, and impact of these exercises are likely a function of the larger political context. The last twenty years have found …
Hazardous Wastes, Politics, and Public Policy: A Comparative State Analysis
growth, industrial expansion, and technological change upon environment. One of major public policy issues to emerge recently is concern over public health and safety associated with (chemical) wastes. Dramatic incidents, such as kepone dumping James River, Valley of Drums incident Kentucky, and damage apparently caused by Love Canal chemical disposal sites, have served as catalysts mobilizing public interest responsible management of wastes. The…
Public Policy Implementation: Evolution of the Field and Agenda for Future Research
Strength in Numbers: Why States Join Interstate Compacts
Interstate compacts hold tremendous promise for resolving tough public problems at the subnational level. They have also been promoted as one way that states can protect their sovereignty vis-à-vis the national government. But the rate at which states participate in such compacts varies widely. Thus, we ask: What explains a state's propensity to join national interstate compacts? Using time-series cross-sectional event count models of state compa…
Implementing Environmental Policy in a Federal System: A Test of the Sabatier-Mazmanian Model
Implementation research has been impeded by a variety of conceptual and methodological difficulties, some of which this articles hopes to remedy. It examines the regulation of hazardous waste in the fifty states and, using the conceptual framework developed by Sabatier and Mazmanian, identifies the factors that inhibit policy implementation. The authors focus specifically on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 and find that state i…
Policy Innovativeness and Interstate Compacts
Are someAmerican states inherently more innovative than others? This question has confounded researchers for more than four decades. In this study we develop a measure of collective policy innovation that measures formal cooperative policy arrangements among the states, compare the measure to existing measures of internal state policy innovation, and assess whether existing innovativeness measures explain policy cooperation among the states. This…
Collective Action and the Evolution of Intergovernmental Cooperation
Voluntary cooperation among governments holds tremendous promise for solving policy problems with regional and national scope. In this article, we apply insights from the theory of institutional collective action to understand the evolution of cooperative governmental institutions. We address the question: What makes a government decide to exit an existing cooperative arrangement and join a new one with a stronger central authority? Our empirical…
Governors Turn Pro: Separation of Powers and the Institutionalization of the American Governorship
This study examines the institutional development of governors’ offices. Pooled analyses from 1983 to 2004 indicate that government growth and workload foster institutionalization, as does rivalry with the legislature. Bargaining relationships with external actors appear to have more limited impact. The authors also find that the dispersion of authority within the executive branch plays a significant role in explaining the development of institut…
The State of American Federalism, 1993–1994
Journal Article The State of American Federalism, 1993–1994 Get access Ann O'M. Bowman, Ann O'M. Bowman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael A. Pagano Michael A. Pagano Miami University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 24, Issue 3, Summer 1994, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournal…
Blurring Borders: The Effect of Federal Activism on Interstate Cooperation
Interstate compacts are an increasingly important policy tool available to states, one that allows them to tackle regional and national issues. What effect does policy activity at the federal level have on state participation in interstate compacts? Drawing on theories of functional federalism, the authors explore the possibility that a state’s response to federal activism varies across policy domains. For economic policy the authors hypothesize …
The State of American Federalism, 1994–1995
Federalism, as a concept and as a reality, received assistance from a variety of sources during 1994–1995. Opinion polls revealed a public strongly supportive of shifts in the balance of power between federal and state governments. The new Republican-controlled Congress, bent on devolving authority to the states, busied itself with an ambitious legislative agenda. The Democratic President pursued his principles of federalism and intergovernmental…
Intergovernmental and Intersectoral Tensions in Environmental Olicy Implementation: The Case of Hazardous Waste
Superfund-the federal government's program to clean up toxic waste sites-was designed to promote cooperative interaction between levels of government and w ith the private sector. Implementation of the program has, produced a web of tensions instead. The tensions have been intergovernmental and intersectoral. As this examination of the cleanup of four South Carolina sites reveals, these tensions have served to delay and distort the implementation…
Special-purpose authorities: A welcomed alien to decentralization in Lebanon
Countries in transition face numerous political and economic challenges often exacerbated by persistent corruption and internecine religious conflict. In Lebanon, existing local governments have proven ineffective at providing many public services, especially those with spillover effects and externalities. This article proposes a structural change: the introduction of special-purpose local authorities to provide a single service transcending the …
Expanding the Scope of Conflict: Interest Groups and Interstate Compacts
This study looks at how the characteristics of states' interest group environments affect state participation in interstate compacts. Drawing on prominent theories of interest system characteristics, we hypothesize that interest group density and concentration will influence a state's propensity to join compacts. Method. Using pooled cross-sectional time-series event-count models, we test our hypotheses for 48 states over a 30-year period. Result…
Hazardous Waste Management: An Emerging Policy Area Within an Emerging Federalism
Journal Article Hazardous Waste Management: An Emerging Policy Area Within an Emerging Federalism Get access Ann O'M. Bowman Ann O'M. Bowman University of South California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 1985, Pages 131–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037519 Published: 01 January 1985
The State of American Federalism, 1990–1991
Journal Article The State of American Federalism, 1990–1991 Get access Michael A. Pagano, Michael A. Pagano Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ann O'M. Bowman, Ann O'M. Bowman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Kincaid John Kincaid U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
Physical Attractiveness and Electability: Looks and Votes
The link between physical attractiveness and electability is explored in this aricle. "Looks" are the sole cue in an experimental voting situation; and subjects "vote" for males they have previously rated attractive but treat attractive female candidates quite differently. Subjects, male and female, are more likely to vote for women they consider less attractive. While the overall pattern does not change significantly according to the type of off…
Physical attractiveness and electability: Looks and votes
Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Superfund Implementation in the Southeast
Hazardous Wastes, Politics, and Public Policy: A Comparative State Analysis
growth, industrial expansion, and technological change upon environment. One of major public policy issues to emerge recently is concern over public health and safety associated with (chemical) wastes. Dramatic incidents, such as kepone dumping James River, Valley of Drums incident Kentucky, and damage apparently caused by Love Canal chemical disposal sites, have served as catalysts mobilizing public interest responsible management of wastes. The…
Physical Attractiveness and Electability: Looks and Votes
The link between physical attractiveness and electability is explored in this aricle. "Looks" are the sole cue in an experimental voting situation; and subjects "vote" for males they have previously rated attractive but treat attractive female candidates quite differently. Subjects, male and female, are more likely to vote for women they consider less attractive. While the overall pattern does not change significantly according to the type of off…
Physical attractiveness and electability: Looks and votes
Intergovernmental and Intersectoral Tensions in Environmental Olicy Implementation: The Case of Hazardous Waste
Superfund-the federal government's program to clean up toxic waste sites-was designed to promote cooperative interaction between levels of government and w ith the private sector. Implementation of the program has, produced a web of tensions instead. The tensions have been intergovernmental and intersectoral. As this examination of the cleanup of four South Carolina sites reveals, these tensions have served to delay and distort the implementation…
Hazardous Waste Management: An Emerging Policy Area Within an Emerging Federalism
Journal Article Hazardous Waste Management: An Emerging Policy Area Within an Emerging Federalism Get access Ann O'M. Bowman Ann O'M. Bowman University of South California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 15, Issue 1, Winter 1985, Pages 131–144, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a037519 Published: 01 January 1985
Hazardous Waste Cleanup and Superfund Implementation in the Southeast
Public Policy Implementation: Evolution of the Field and Agenda for Future Research
Competition for Economic Development among Southeastern Cities
Economic development, in its most general sense, is a process through which a community's material and social well-being is increased. For American cities, the interaction of federalism and capitalism makes the pursuit of economic development a competitive process. This study assesses the nature and extent of interjurisdictional competition for economic development by surveying 84 public- and private-sector actors in 31 Southeastern cities. The f…
Dimensions of State Government Capability
POLITICAL system performance depends to a great extent on institutional capacity. As a result, institutions are the objects of continuous attempts at reform and modernization. These transformational efforts are undertaken to attain the somewhat nebulous goals of improvement and capacity building. The frequency, comprehensiveness, and impact of these exercises are likely a function of the larger political context. The last twenty years have found …
Implementing Environmental Policy in a Federal System: A Test of the Sabatier-Mazmanian Model
Implementation research has been impeded by a variety of conceptual and methodological difficulties, some of which this articles hopes to remedy. It examines the regulation of hazardous waste in the fifty states and, using the conceptual framework developed by Sabatier and Mazmanian, identifies the factors that inhibit policy implementation. The authors focus specifically on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 and find that state i…
The State of American Federalism, 1990–1991
Journal Article The State of American Federalism, 1990–1991 Get access Michael A. Pagano, Michael A. Pagano Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Ann O'M. Bowman, Ann O'M. Bowman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Kincaid John Kincaid U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Aca…
City Intervention: An Analysis of the Public Capital Mobilization Process
City governments are actively involved in enhancing the development potential of their territories. They mobilize public capital to influence development. In this article, a conceptual framework is constructed around two factors that trigger the mobilization of public capital: (1) a perception of imbalance between a city's competitive tax burden and service-delivery levels and (2) city officials' vision of the appropriate place for their city ami…
The State of American Federalism, 1993–1994
Journal Article The State of American Federalism, 1993–1994 Get access Ann O'M. Bowman, Ann O'M. Bowman University of South Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael A. Pagano Michael A. Pagano Miami University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 24, Issue 3, Summer 1994, Pages 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournal…
The State of American Federalism, 1994–1995
Federalism, as a concept and as a reality, received assistance from a variety of sources during 1994–1995. Opinion polls revealed a public strongly supportive of shifts in the balance of power between federal and state governments. The new Republican-controlled Congress, bent on devolving authority to the states, busied itself with an ambitious legislative agenda. The Democratic President pursued his principles of federalism and intergovernmental…
Strength in Numbers: Why States Join Interstate Compacts
Interstate compacts hold tremendous promise for resolving tough public problems at the subnational level. They have also been promoted as one way that states can protect their sovereignty vis-à-vis the national government. But the rate at which states participate in such compacts varies widely. Thus, we ask: What explains a state's propensity to join national interstate compacts? Using time-series cross-sectional event count models of state compa…
Expanding the Scope of Conflict: Interest Groups and Interstate Compacts
This study looks at how the characteristics of states' interest group environments affect state participation in interstate compacts. Drawing on prominent theories of interest system characteristics, we hypothesize that interest group density and concentration will influence a state's propensity to join compacts. Method. Using pooled cross-sectional time-series event-count models, we test our hypotheses for 48 states over a 30-year period. Result…
Governors Turn Pro: Separation of Powers and the Institutionalization of the American Governorship
This study examines the institutional development of governors’ offices. Pooled analyses from 1983 to 2004 indicate that government growth and workload foster institutionalization, as does rivalry with the legislature. Bargaining relationships with external actors appear to have more limited impact. The authors also find that the dispersion of authority within the executive branch plays a significant role in explaining the development of institut…
Blurring Borders: The Effect of Federal Activism on Interstate Cooperation
Interstate compacts are an increasingly important policy tool available to states, one that allows them to tackle regional and national issues. What effect does policy activity at the federal level have on state participation in interstate compacts? Drawing on theories of functional federalism, the authors explore the possibility that a state’s response to federal activism varies across policy domains. For economic policy the authors hypothesize …
Policy Innovativeness and Interstate Compacts
Are someAmerican states inherently more innovative than others? This question has confounded researchers for more than four decades. In this study we develop a measure of collective policy innovation that measures formal cooperative policy arrangements among the states, compare the measure to existing measures of internal state policy innovation, and assess whether existing innovativeness measures explain policy cooperation among the states. This…
Special-purpose authorities: A welcomed alien to decentralization in Lebanon
Countries in transition face numerous political and economic challenges often exacerbated by persistent corruption and internecine religious conflict. In Lebanon, existing local governments have proven ineffective at providing many public services, especially those with spillover effects and externalities. This article proposes a structural change: the introduction of special-purpose local authorities to provide a single service transcending the …
Collective Action and the Evolution of Intergovernmental Cooperation
Voluntary cooperation among governments holds tremendous promise for solving policy problems with regional and national scope. In this article, we apply insights from the theory of institutional collective action to understand the evolution of cooperative governmental institutions. We address the question: What makes a government decide to exit an existing cooperative arrangement and join a new one with a stronger central authority? Our empirical…
Political science (21 works) · Politics (16 works) · Public Administration (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Economics (13 works) · Policy Transfer and Learning (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Business (8 works)