James M Mccormick
Biographic Data
| ID | 467271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James M Mccormick |
| GIVEN NAMES | James M |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccormick |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORMICK J M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 565 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
American Foreign Policy and Process
This comprehensive text provides a thorough analysis of the values and beliefs that have shaped American foreign policy, exploring how they have evolved over time. Through exploration of presidential administrations from the end of World War II to the present day, American Foreign Policy and Process provides an extensive comparison of policymaking processes during the Cold War, after Vietnam, and after 9/11. This new edition provides an up-to-dat…
Principles in Power: Latin America and the Politics of U.S. Human Rights Diplomacy by Vanessa Walker
Pivoting toward Asia: Comparing the Canadian and American Policy Shifts
Both Canada and the United States have “pivoted” toward Asia in their foreign policy over the past decade, although emphases in those pivots differed between the two countries. The former focuses on an economic pivot initially, the latter on a security one. What factors explain these shifts? What was the magnitude of policy change by both? Utilizing some important theoretical works by Charles Hermann, we discuss the factors that appear to have br…
Teaching Canadian Politics and Foreign Policy Onsite: Benefits and Challenges
This article discusses the benefits and challenges of offering an onsite seminar on Canadian politics and foreign policy and assesses how this format contributes to achieving the goals of the 2011 APSA report, Teaching Political Science in the 21st Century . First, the author describes the development and requirements of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Global Seminar series at Iowa State University, the structure of the seminar, and its …
Measuring Whether Canadian Studies Courses Make a Difference in Knowledge of Canada
In this research, we compare the results for a 2009 survey of Iowa State University students (our non-Canadian Studies sample) with the 2010 survey of Loyola University, Chicago, the University of Missouri, and Université Laval students (our Canadian Studies sample) on their knowledge of Canada. In general, we find significant differences between these two groups on the overall survey results, but we also find differences between the two groups o…
Eugene R. Wittkopf
Eugene R. Wittkopf, professor emeritus of political science at Louisiana State University, passed away suddenly on September 18, 2006. He was 63 years old. Gene was a native of Algona, Iowa and received his B.A. from Valparaiso University in 1965, and his M.P.A and his Ph.D. from the Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs at Syracuse University in 1966 and 1971, respectively. He started his academic career at the University of Florida, wh…
Commitments, Transnational Interests, and Congress: Who Joins the Congressional Human Rights Caucus
The authors seek to explain the membership of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC). Focusing on human rights violations abroad, the Caucus offers few incentives for representatives to join this organization, yet it consistently has a large membership. Drawing on theoretical literature on Congress and interest groups, the authors argue that members' policy motivation and the subsidizing role of national and transnational human rights inter…
The War on Terror and Contemporary U.S.‐European Relations
This article examines the evolution of the Bush Administration’s foreign policy approach and assesses how that evolution has affected European‐American relations in the recent past and how it may affect ties in the future. The twin concepts of a conceptual gap and an action gap between America and Europe over U.S. foreign policy are utilized as organizing themes. The former refers to the gap between Europe and America over the assumptions that go…
Graduate Training, Current Affiliation and Publishing Books in Political Science
Scores of studies have measured the quality of political science departments. Generally speaking, these studies have taken two forms. Many have relied on scholars' survey responses to construct rankings of the major departments. For example, almost 50 years ago Keniston (1957) interviewed 25 department chairpersons and asked them to assess the quality of various programs, and, much more recently, the National Research Council (NRC 1995) asked 100…
Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of American Foreign Policy . Robert A. Strong
Graduate Training and Research Productivity in the 1990s: A Look at Who Publishes
The relationship between reputational rankings of political science departments and their scholarly productivity remains a source of discussion and controversy. After the National Research Council (1995) published its ranking of 98 political science departments, Katz and Eagles (1996), Jackman and Siverson (1996), and Lowry and Silver (1996) analyzed the factors that seemingly influenced those rankings. Miller, Tien, and Peebler (1996) offered an…
Alston J. “Jerry” Shakeshaft
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Social Democracy in a Small Country: Political Leadership or Management Consultancy
The Price of American Foreign Policy: Congress, the Executive, and International Affairs Funding . William I. Bacchus
Disposing of the World's Excess Plutonium
We undertake three key objectives in addressing the issue of plutonium disposition at the end of the Cold War. First, we estimate the total global inventory of plutonium both from weapons dismantlement and civil nuclear power reactors. Second, we review past and current policy toward handling this metal by the United States. Russia, and other key countries. Third, we evaluate the feasibility of several options (but especially the vitrification an…
Congress, the President, and the End of the Cold War: Has Anything Changed
Many analysts believe that the end of the cold war will spark greater conflict between Congress and the president on foreign issues, thus further undermining the nation's political mythology that politics stops at the water's edge. The authors test that hypothesis using House of Representatives' support of presidents' foreign policy bids on prerogative power and defense budgeting issues during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Congresses (1983-1996).…
Politics and Bipartisanship at the Water's Edge: A Note on Bush and Clinton
This research extends an earlier study of the bipartisan and political perspectives for evaluating congressional-executive relations on foreign policy to cover the Bush administration and the first Clinton term. As expected, the end of the Cold War accelerated the decline of bipartisanship and accentuated the continuing relevance of the political perspective. The level of bipartisan accord was relatively low during both administrations, particula…
Human Rights Violations, Umbrella Concepts, and Empirical Analysis
In this research note, the authors seek to demonstrate conceptually and empirically that the unidimensional treatment of human rights violations, which is the standard approach found in the literature, confounds two important underlying components of the concept. They argue that the disaggregation of umbrella concepts like human rights violations is an important step in the research process and that it offers significant theoretical and empirical…
Political Opposition and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective. Joe D. Hagan The Limits of Autonomy. David Skidmore , Valerie M. Hudson
Assessing Clinton’s Foreign Policy at Midterm
Bill Clinton ran for president on the theme of change-change in domestic policy and change in foreign policy. With the end of the cold war, candidate Clinton argued, American foreign policy had to meet novel challenges as it prepared for the twentyfirst century. What was needed, Clinton said in 1991, was "a new vision and the strength to meet a new set of opportunities and threats." "We face the same challenge today that we faced in 1946-to build…
Healing the American Rift with New Zealand
Since 1985, political and military relations between the United States and New Zealand have been ruptured over the issue of American nuclear ship visits and nuclear power generally. In this paper, I review the nature of the ANZUS dispute, analyze the impact of this rupture in several different policy areas between the two countries, and discuss the recent events in New Zealand-United States relations that have begun to alter this situation. In pa…
British Mass Perceptions of the Anglo-American Special Relationship
Journal Article British Mass Perceptions of the Anglo-American Special Relationship Get access Jorgen Rasmussen, Jorgen Rasmussen JORGEN RASMUSSEN is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University and executive secretary of the British Politics Group. He is coauthor of Major European Governments, now in its Sth edition. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James M. Mccormick James M. Mcco…
Bush and Bipartisanship: The Past as Prologue
Bipartisanship, Partisanship, and Ideology in Congressional-Executive Foreign Policy Relations, 1947-1988
This paper examines two perspectives on the nature of congressional-executive relations in the making of American foreign policy: the bipartisan perspective, which says that politics stops at the water's edge, and the political perspective, which sees foreign policy as subject to the same partisan and ideological disputes that characterize domestic policy-making. The results demonstrate that the bipartisan perspective applies best to the Cold War…
The Cold War Consensus: Did It Exist
A bipartisan consensus about the means and ends of American foreign policy is generally thought to have been part of the American political environment during the Cold War era. This consensus is also commonly thought to have been a casualty of the Vietnam War, when disagreements arose about the threat of communism, the use of American troops abroad, and relations with the Soviet Union. This article uses public opinion data from the decades follow…
Economic and Political Explanations of Human Rights Violations
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Bipartisanship, Partisanship, and Ideology in Congressional-Executive Foreign Policy Relations, 1947-1988
This paper examines two perspectives on the nature of congressional-executive relations in the making of American foreign policy: the bipartisan perspective, which says that politics stops at the water's edge, and the political perspective, which sees foreign policy as subject to the same partisan and ideological disputes that characterize domestic policy-making. The results demonstrate that the bipartisan perspective applies best to the Cold War…
Human Rights Violations, Umbrella Concepts, and Empirical Analysis
In this research note, the authors seek to demonstrate conceptually and empirically that the unidimensional treatment of human rights violations, which is the standard approach found in the literature, confounds two important underlying components of the concept. They argue that the disaggregation of umbrella concepts like human rights violations is an important step in the research process and that it offers significant theoretical and empirical…
Is U.S. Aid Really Linked to Human Rights in Latin America
In their recent article on U.S. foreign assistance to Latin America, Cingranelli and Pasquarello (i985) report that rights considerations have become a more important determinant of distribution of U.S. foreign aid in this region during same period that U.S. dominance has been severely threatened (p. 562). While such a conclusion is normatively appealing and applies more to economic assistance than to military aid, it stands in sharp contrast to …
The Problem of Source Coverage in the Use of International Events Data
Journal Article The Problem of Source Coverage in the Use of International Events Data Get access Edward E. Azar, Edward E. Azar Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stanley H. Cohen, Stanley H. Cohen Department of Psychology, University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Thomas O. Jukam, Thomas O. Juk…
Congress, the President, and the End of the Cold War: Has Anything Changed
Many analysts believe that the end of the cold war will spark greater conflict between Congress and the president on foreign issues, thus further undermining the nation's political mythology that politics stops at the water's edge. The authors test that hypothesis using House of Representatives' support of presidents' foreign policy bids on prerogative power and defense budgeting issues during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton Congresses (1983-1996).…
Ideology and Senate Voting on the Panama Canal Treaties
This research examines the relative utility of ideology (as compared to party affiliation, regionalism, election status, and presidential leadership) in explaining Senate voting decisions on the two Panama Canal Treaties in March and April 1978. Employing bivariate and multivariate techniques, we demonstrate that the ideological explanation of voting was more potent than the others for these two treaties. In addition, when we analyzed separately …
Opportunity Costs of Defense: Some Cross-National Evidence
This paper assesses the impact of changes in military spending on spending levels for public education and public health in a number of countries for selected years from 1950-1972. First, the opportunity costs argument is evaluated across all the nations selected and then two intervening variables - level of economic development and regime type - are introduced to specify the relationship. The major findings are: (1) opportunity costs do exist fo…
Politics and Bipartisanship at the Water's Edge: A Note on Bush and Clinton
This research extends an earlier study of the bipartisan and political perspectives for evaluating congressional-executive relations on foreign policy to cover the Bush administration and the first Clinton term. As expected, the end of the Cold War accelerated the decline of bipartisanship and accentuated the continuing relevance of the political perspective. The level of bipartisan accord was relatively low during both administrations, particula…
Graduate Training and Research Productivity in the 1990s: A Look at Who Publishes
The relationship between reputational rankings of political science departments and their scholarly productivity remains a source of discussion and controversy. After the National Research Council (1995) published its ranking of 98 political science departments, Katz and Eagles (1996), Jackman and Siverson (1996), and Lowry and Silver (1996) analyzed the factors that seemingly influenced those rankings. Miller, Tien, and Peebler (1996) offered an…
Graduate Training and Productivity: A Look at who Publishes
The Cold War Consensus: Did It Exist
A bipartisan consensus about the means and ends of American foreign policy is generally thought to have been part of the American political environment during the Cold War era. This consensus is also commonly thought to have been a casualty of the Vietnam War, when disagreements arose about the threat of communism, the use of American troops abroad, and relations with the Soviet Union. This article uses public opinion data from the decades follow…
Evaluating Models of Crisis Behavior: Some Evidence from the Middle East
Journal Article Evaluating Models of Crisis Behavior: Some Evidence from the Middle East Get access James M. McCormick James M. McCormick Department of Political Science, University of Toledo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 1975, Pages 17–45, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600364 Published: 01 March 1975
Commitments, Transnational Interests, and Congress: Who Joins the Congressional Human Rights Caucus
The authors seek to explain the membership of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus (CHRC). Focusing on human rights violations abroad, the Caucus offers few incentives for representatives to join this organization, yet it consistently has a large membership. Drawing on theoretical literature on Congress and interest groups, the authors argue that members' policy motivation and the subsidizing role of national and transnational human rights inter…
British Mass Perceptions of the Anglo-American Special Relationship
Journal Article British Mass Perceptions of the Anglo-American Special Relationship Get access Jorgen Rasmussen, Jorgen Rasmussen JORGEN RASMUSSEN is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University and executive secretary of the British Politics Group. He is coauthor of Major European Governments, now in its Sth edition. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James M. Mccormick James M. Mcco…
Graduate Training, Current Affiliation and Publishing Books in Political Science
Scores of studies have measured the quality of political science departments. Generally speaking, these studies have taken two forms. Many have relied on scholars' survey responses to construct rankings of the major departments. For example, almost 50 years ago Keniston (1957) interviewed 25 department chairpersons and asked them to assess the quality of various programs, and, much more recently, the National Research Council (NRC 1995) asked 100…
The Changing Role of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the 1970s and 1980s
This research examines the extent to which the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has changed in orientation from a committee that is “executive-led” to one that makes a more independent judgment of foreign policy matters. Three types of indicators are used to make this assessment: (1) the composition and political orientation of the committee and its voting support of the President; (2) the changes in political leadership of the committee and it…
Foreign Policy by Executive Fiat
The Influence of Ideology on British Labour MPs in Voting on EEC Issues
This research examines the extent to which ideological concerns motivated the voting of British Labour MPs from 1974 to 1979 on 12 contentious divisions concerning the Common Market. Guttman analysis of voting patterns demonstrated that the divisions constituted a single scale, implying an underlying ideological structure. Regression techniques determined the extent of the association between two dimensions of ideology-extremism and coherence-and…
Response to Lyttkens and Vedovato
Intergovernmental Organizations and Cooperation among Nations
In this article, we examined empirically the levels of cooperative behavior of nations inside and outside of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), across types of IGOs (global, regional, “high politics,” “low politics”) and across types of nations (measured by relative size and level of economic development). We first confirmed the conventional view that foreign policy cooperation inside and outside IGOs is substantially different in each insta…
Intergovernmental Organizations and Foreign Policy Behavior: Some Empirical Findings
In this study, we evaluate whether the increase in the number of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) has resulted in their increased use for foreign policy behavior by the nations of the world. This question is examined in three related ways: (1) the aggregate use of IGOs for foreign policy behavior; (2) the relationship between IGO membership and IGO use; and (3) the kinds of states that use IGOs. Our data base consists of the 35 nations in t…
The Making of International Agreements: A Reappraisal of Congressional Involvement
Teaching Canadian Politics and Foreign Policy Onsite: Benefits and Challenges
This article discusses the benefits and challenges of offering an onsite seminar on Canadian politics and foreign policy and assesses how this format contributes to achieving the goals of the 2011 APSA report, Teaching Political Science in the 21st Century . First, the author describes the development and requirements of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Global Seminar series at Iowa State University, the structure of the seminar, and its …
Bush and Bipartisanship: The Past as Prologue
The Problem of Source Coverage in the Use of International Events Data
Journal Article The Problem of Source Coverage in the Use of International Events Data Get access Edward E. Azar, Edward E. Azar Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stanley H. Cohen, Stanley H. Cohen Department of Psychology, University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Thomas O. Jukam, Thomas O. Juk…
Evaluating Models of Crisis Behavior: Some Evidence from the Middle East
Journal Article Evaluating Models of Crisis Behavior: Some Evidence from the Middle East Get access James M. McCormick James M. McCormick Department of Political Science, University of Toledo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 19, Issue 1, March 1975, Pages 17–45, https://doi.org/10.2307/2600364 Published: 01 March 1975
Foreign Policy by Executive Fiat
Opportunity Costs of Defense: Some Cross-National Evidence
This paper assesses the impact of changes in military spending on spending levels for public education and public health in a number of countries for selected years from 1950-1972. First, the opportunity costs argument is evaluated across all the nations selected and then two intervening variables - level of economic development and regime type - are introduced to specify the relationship. The major findings are: (1) opportunity costs do exist fo…
International Crises: A Note On Definition
NE prominent feature of the recent postwar period is the occurrence of international crises. While Korea, Berlin, Cuba, Vietnam, and the Middle East immediately come to mind, these few examples hardly exhaust the list of such events. Despite the frequency of these in the current international system, relatively little is known about the crisis process. In fact, only within the last ten to fifteen years have there been efforts to gain systematic e…
International Crises: A Note on Definition
The Making of International Agreements: A Reappraisal of Congressional Involvement
Intergovernmental Organizations and Foreign Policy Behavior: Some Empirical Findings
In this study, we evaluate whether the increase in the number of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) has resulted in their increased use for foreign policy behavior by the nations of the world. This question is examined in three related ways: (1) the aggregate use of IGOs for foreign policy behavior; (2) the relationship between IGO membership and IGO use; and (3) the kinds of states that use IGOs. Our data base consists of the 35 nations in t…
Intergovernmental Organizations and Cooperation among Nations
In this article, we examined empirically the levels of cooperative behavior of nations inside and outside of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs), across types of IGOs (global, regional, “high politics,” “low politics”) and across types of nations (measured by relative size and level of economic development). We first confirmed the conventional view that foreign policy cooperation inside and outside IGOs is substantially different in each insta…
Graduate Training and Productivity: A Look at who Publishes
Alternate Approaches to Evaluating International Organizations: Some Research Directions
Ideology and Senate Voting on the Panama Canal Treaties
This research examines the relative utility of ideology (as compared to party affiliation, regionalism, election status, and presidential leadership) in explaining Senate voting decisions on the two Panama Canal Treaties in March and April 1978. Employing bivariate and multivariate techniques, we demonstrate that the ideological explanation of voting was more potent than the others for these two treaties. In addition, when we analyzed separately …
The Nieo and the Distribution of American Assistance
IN RECENT YEARS the linkage between international organizations and nations has generated a variety of research approaches. Charles Pentland (1976: 621-59) has summarized these linkages into three principal approaches. First, international organizations can serve as instruments of national policy. In this kind of linkage, international organizations are examined primarily as means that states use to obtain their own national goals. International …
Response to Lyttkens and Vedovato
The Nieo and the Distribution of American Assistance
The Changing Role of the House Foreign Affairs Committee in the 1970s and 1980s
This research examines the extent to which the House Committee on Foreign Affairs has changed in orientation from a committee that is “executive-led” to one that makes a more independent judgment of foreign policy matters. Three types of indicators are used to make this assessment: (1) the composition and political orientation of the committee and its voting support of the President; (2) the changes in political leadership of the committee and it…
The Influence of Ideology on British Labour MPs in Voting on EEC Issues
This research examines the extent to which ideological concerns motivated the voting of British Labour MPs from 1974 to 1979 on 12 contentious divisions concerning the Common Market. Guttman analysis of voting patterns demonstrated that the divisions constituted a single scale, implying an underlying ideological structure. Regression techniques determined the extent of the association between two dimensions of ideology-extremism and coherence-and…
The Iran Arms Sale and the Intelligence Oversight Act of 1980
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Is U.S. Aid Really Linked to Human Rights in Latin America
In their recent article on U.S. foreign assistance to Latin America, Cingranelli and Pasquarello (i985) report that rights considerations have become a more important determinant of distribution of U.S. foreign aid in this region during same period that U.S. dominance has been severely threatened (p. 562). While such a conclusion is normatively appealing and applies more to economic assistance than to military aid, it stands in sharp contrast to …
Economic and Political Explanations of Human Rights Violations
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
Bush and Bipartisanship: The Past as Prologue
Bipartisanship, Partisanship, and Ideology in Congressional-Executive Foreign Policy Relations, 1947-1988
This paper examines two perspectives on the nature of congressional-executive relations in the making of American foreign policy: the bipartisan perspective, which says that politics stops at the water's edge, and the political perspective, which sees foreign policy as subject to the same partisan and ideological disputes that characterize domestic policy-making. The results demonstrate that the bipartisan perspective applies best to the Cold War…
The Cold War Consensus: Did It Exist
A bipartisan consensus about the means and ends of American foreign policy is generally thought to have been part of the American political environment during the Cold War era. This consensus is also commonly thought to have been a casualty of the Vietnam War, when disagreements arose about the threat of communism, the use of American troops abroad, and relations with the Soviet Union. This article uses public opinion data from the decades follow…
British Mass Perceptions of the Anglo-American Special Relationship
Journal Article British Mass Perceptions of the Anglo-American Special Relationship Get access Jorgen Rasmussen, Jorgen Rasmussen JORGEN RASMUSSEN is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University and executive secretary of the British Politics Group. He is coauthor of Major European Governments, now in its Sth edition. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James M. Mccormick James M. Mcco…
Political Opposition and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective. Joe D. Hagan The Limits of Autonomy. David Skidmore , Valerie M. Hudson
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