Stephen Bates
Biographic Data
| ID | 5522568 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Bates |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bates |
| SIGNATURE | BATES S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Wiz in the Witch Hunt
Milton D. Stewart was an innovative and influential young media reformer of the mid- and late 1940s. He intersected with some of the most eminent figures in the field, including Robert M. Hutchins and the Commission on Freedom of the Press. At age twenty-two, Stewart made regulatory history by persuading the Federal Communications Commission to accept content analysis as evidence in a licensing proceeding. A few years later, a former landlady’s a…
From Blue Book to White Book
This article explores the publication and reception of The American Radio (1947), one of the five supplementary volumes of the Hutchins Commission (the Commission on the Freedom of the Press), written by staff researcher Llewellyn White. It explores the background of the Hutchins Commission and the contexts for its far-reaching recommendations for the restructuring of US broadcasting. It also documents the contemporary response to The American Ra…
Reluctant to Criticize
The earliest recommendation for an American press council appears in A Free and Responsible Press (1947), the report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press. Few people know that Commission chair Robert Maynard Hutchins and two allies between 1959 and 1962 tried to create the press council. They wanted an organization that would evaluate television as well as print, and entertainment as well as news, with Adlai Stevenson as chair, Edward R. Mur…
An Aristocracy of Critics
Response, Demand, and Control
Theory and research in teachers’ interactional styles and authoritative teaching typically posit two factors, including response and a second factor featuring some combination of demand and control. Two survey-research projects examined how teachers construe interactional styles, with results suggesting three discrete factors: response, demand, and control. The optimal interactional style is more complex than the formula of high response and high…
Case Half-Closed
In A Free and Responsible Press (1947), the Commission on Freedom of the Press excoriated the performance of news outlets and laid blame on owners and managers. When the Commission began its work in 1943, though, it focused on an additional culprit. Pressure groups, according to the Commission, were propagandizing, issuing threats, and distorting media coverage. Pressure groups fell off the Commission’s agenda, in part because members and staff w…
Do UK MPs engage more with Select Committees since the Wright Reforms? An Interrupted Time Series Analysis, 1979–2016
The 2010 Wright Reforms are the most significant changes to the Select Committee system in the UK House of Commons since their inauguration in their modern form in 1979. We use interrupted time series techniques (ARIMA) to test the impact of the Wright Report on the level of parliamentarians’ engagement with those Select Committees covered by the Wright Reforms using proxy measures of membership attendance and turnover rates. We find little or no…
Reinhold Niebuhr's Trump Prophecy
Political Economy and the Aid Industry in Asia
Prime ministerial self-reported actions in Prime Minister's Questions 1979-2010
The Church in Devon, 400–1560, by Nicholas Orme
During recent decades, an increase of historical sensitivity to local evidence about religious practices has greatly expanded our understanding of the broader narrative of the English Church. In particular, focused research on parish records has entirely revised the literature on the Reformation. Nicholas Orme’s extensive archival work in his corner of the field, the South West, leaves him well positioned to connect these regional trends to wider…
Using Critical Realism to Explain Indeterminacy in Role Behaviour Systematically
We demonstrate in this article how critical realism can be used to explain indeterminacy in role behaviour systematically. In so doing, we both rebut various criticisms of critical realism made recently by K emp and H olmwood and attempt to illustrate the weaknesses and absences of approaches that concentrate unduly on the collection of expectations of (different groups of) actors concerning roles and the behaviour of incumbents. Within a framewo…
(De)politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates
Studies making use of (de)politicisation have flourished as governments have embraced technocratic and delegated forms of governance. Yet this increase in use is not always matched by conceptual or analytical refinement. Nor has scholarship generally travelled into empirical terrain beyond economic and monetary policy, nor assessed whether politicising and depoliticising processes could occur simultaneously. It is within this intellectual context…
Dead Rights
Public Intellectuals as Media Critics
"Godless communism" and its legacies
The reporter's privilege, then and now
Reinvigorating citizenship
Battleground
The Spot
(De)politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates
Studies making use of (de)politicisation have flourished as governments have embraced technocratic and delegated forms of governance. Yet this increase in use is not always matched by conceptual or analytical refinement. Nor has scholarship generally travelled into empirical terrain beyond economic and monetary policy, nor assessed whether politicising and depoliticising processes could occur simultaneously. It is within this intellectual context…
Do UK MPs engage more with Select Committees since the Wright Reforms? An Interrupted Time Series Analysis, 1979–2016
The 2010 Wright Reforms are the most significant changes to the Select Committee system in the UK House of Commons since their inauguration in their modern form in 1979. We use interrupted time series techniques (ARIMA) to test the impact of the Wright Report on the level of parliamentarians’ engagement with those Select Committees covered by the Wright Reforms using proxy measures of membership attendance and turnover rates. We find little or no…
Prime ministerial self-reported actions in Prime Minister's Questions 1979-2010
Using Critical Realism to Explain Indeterminacy in Role Behaviour Systematically
We demonstrate in this article how critical realism can be used to explain indeterminacy in role behaviour systematically. In so doing, we both rebut various criticisms of critical realism made recently by K emp and H olmwood and attempt to illustrate the weaknesses and absences of approaches that concentrate unduly on the collection of expectations of (different groups of) actors concerning roles and the behaviour of incumbents. Within a framewo…
The Spot
Battleground
Reinvigorating citizenship
The reporter's privilege, then and now
"Godless communism" and its legacies
Public Intellectuals as Media Critics
Dead Rights
Using Critical Realism to Explain Indeterminacy in Role Behaviour Systematically
We demonstrate in this article how critical realism can be used to explain indeterminacy in role behaviour systematically. In so doing, we both rebut various criticisms of critical realism made recently by K emp and H olmwood and attempt to illustrate the weaknesses and absences of approaches that concentrate unduly on the collection of expectations of (different groups of) actors concerning roles and the behaviour of incumbents. Within a framewo…
(De)politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates
Studies making use of (de)politicisation have flourished as governments have embraced technocratic and delegated forms of governance. Yet this increase in use is not always matched by conceptual or analytical refinement. Nor has scholarship generally travelled into empirical terrain beyond economic and monetary policy, nor assessed whether politicising and depoliticising processes could occur simultaneously. It is within this intellectual context…
The Church in Devon, 400–1560, by Nicholas Orme
During recent decades, an increase of historical sensitivity to local evidence about religious practices has greatly expanded our understanding of the broader narrative of the English Church. In particular, focused research on parish records has entirely revised the literature on the Reformation. Nicholas Orme’s extensive archival work in his corner of the field, the South West, leaves him well positioned to connect these regional trends to wider…
Political Economy and the Aid Industry in Asia
Prime ministerial self-reported actions in Prime Minister's Questions 1979-2010
Do UK MPs engage more with Select Committees since the Wright Reforms? An Interrupted Time Series Analysis, 1979–2016
The 2010 Wright Reforms are the most significant changes to the Select Committee system in the UK House of Commons since their inauguration in their modern form in 1979. We use interrupted time series techniques (ARIMA) to test the impact of the Wright Report on the level of parliamentarians’ engagement with those Select Committees covered by the Wright Reforms using proxy measures of membership attendance and turnover rates. We find little or no…
Reinhold Niebuhr's Trump Prophecy
Case Half-Closed
In A Free and Responsible Press (1947), the Commission on Freedom of the Press excoriated the performance of news outlets and laid blame on owners and managers. When the Commission began its work in 1943, though, it focused on an additional culprit. Pressure groups, according to the Commission, were propagandizing, issuing threats, and distorting media coverage. Pressure groups fell off the Commission’s agenda, in part because members and staff w…
An Aristocracy of Critics
Response, Demand, and Control
Theory and research in teachers’ interactional styles and authoritative teaching typically posit two factors, including response and a second factor featuring some combination of demand and control. Two survey-research projects examined how teachers construe interactional styles, with results suggesting three discrete factors: response, demand, and control. The optimal interactional style is more complex than the formula of high response and high…
Reluctant to Criticize
The earliest recommendation for an American press council appears in A Free and Responsible Press (1947), the report of the Commission on Freedom of the Press. Few people know that Commission chair Robert Maynard Hutchins and two allies between 1959 and 1962 tried to create the press council. They wanted an organization that would evaluate television as well as print, and entertainment as well as news, with Adlai Stevenson as chair, Edward R. Mur…
The Wiz in the Witch Hunt
Milton D. Stewart was an innovative and influential young media reformer of the mid- and late 1940s. He intersected with some of the most eminent figures in the field, including Robert M. Hutchins and the Commission on Freedom of the Press. At age twenty-two, Stewart made regulatory history by persuading the Federal Communications Commission to accept content analysis as evidence in a licensing proceeding. A few years later, a former landlady’s a…
From Blue Book to White Book
This article explores the publication and reception of The American Radio (1947), one of the five supplementary volumes of the Hutchins Commission (the Commission on the Freedom of the Press), written by staff researcher Llewellyn White. It explores the background of the Hutchins Commission and the contexts for its far-reaching recommendations for the restructuring of US broadcasting. It also documents the contemporary response to The American Ra…
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