Susan A Macmanu
Biographic Data
| ID | 698204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan A Macmanu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan A |
| FAMILY NAME | Macmanu |
| SIGNATURE | MACMANU S A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 138 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Interlocal Emergency Management Collaboration: Vertical and Horizontal Roadblocks
This study, based on a statewide survey of local officials in Florida, examines the degree to which vertical and horizontal roadblocks to interlocal cooperation persist well after the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina mega-disasters. Respondents evaluate the degree to which vertical constraints (state and federal mandates) and horizontal constraints (political tensions and competition for funding; incompatible communication equipment and inconsistent in…
Emergency Management: Gauging the Extensiveness and Quality of Public-and Private-Sector Collaboration at the Local Level
This empirically based study compares the extensiveness and perceived quality of public and private emergency management—related collaborations at the grassroots level, based on a statewide survey of Florida county and city officials. The extensiveness of local officials’ involvement in private-sector collaboration is on par with their emergency management—related interactions with public-sector entities. County officials are more likely than cit…
Spouses as Campaign Surrogates: Strategic Appearances by Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates' Wives in the 2004 Election
It is clear from the presidential primary campaign that 2008 can legitimately be labeled “the year of the spouse as surrogate.” The sheer number of candidates on both sides of the aisle and the heavily front-loaded campaign season have made using the wives—and husband—of the candidates a “must.” Never before has media attention been so heavily focused on the spouses. In fact, they have often been an equal, or in some cases, bigger story than the …
Homeland Security Preparedness: The Rebirth of Regionalism
The homeland security mission has placed many new demands on the U.S. system of federalism. The successful implementation of homeland security policy requires cooperation among all levels of government—federal, state, and local. Regionalism offers a powerful tool for encouraging greater intergovernmental cooperation and improved homeland security preparedness. We assess the impact of regionalism on intergovernmental cooperation and the implementa…
Taxing and Spending Politics: A Generational Perspective
The aging of the American population has important ramifications for public policy. Economists have long been predicting intergenerational economic warfare based upon their close look at the nation's changing demographics. It is time for political scientists to focus on this issue, especially since taxing and spending issues are increasingly at the forefront of most elections, whether at the national or state and local levels. This research exami…
Municipal Electoral Structure and the Election of Councilwomen
A survey of the 946 American cities having populations in excess of 25,000 in 1980 reveals very little relationship between election structures and the presence of women on their councils. These results hold for the full data set as well as for four regional subsets. The evidence does not sustain the desirability hypothesis that suggests women will less often be elected in cities where the position is more valued. Women serve somewhat more freque…
Mad” About Mandates: The Issue of Who Should Pay for What Resurfaces in the 1990s
In 1990, constitutional amendment proposals were put before the voters in Florida and Wisconsin (nonbinding) to limit unfunded state mandates. This brought the number of states with constitutionally based mandate-reimbursement requirements to fifteen. Voter support was garnered by attributing local property-tax increasesand loss oflocalcontrol over spending priorities to unfundedstate mandates. The Florida and Wisconsin efforts came close on the …
State constitutions and women: Leading or lagging agents of change
State vs. Local Public Sector Growth; A Comparison of Determinant Models
A Modest Rejoinder: The Case for Replication of Existing Models Using Longitudinal Time Frames
Staggered Terms and Black Representation
Courts, the Justice Department, and civil rights groups have charged that staggered terms dilute minority political influence. This assertion is examined in the dual contexts of state senates and city councils. Neither bivariate nor multivariate analyses find use of overlapping terms to be associated with less representation of blacks in senates or southern municipalities. The percent black in the polity translates into black representation at ab…
Learning to cope
A global view
Special District Governments: A Note on Their Use as Property Tax Relief Mechanisms in the 1970s
Tax Structures in American Cities: Levels, Reliance, and Rates
ECENT financial catastrophes in several major U.S. cities, particularly New York City, have demonstrated the costs of ignoring the revenue side of municipal budgets. The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain, through systematic comparative analysis, variations in the tax structure of the central cities of the 243 SMSAs (1970). Specifically, the focus is on three tax structures: levels (per capitas) ; reliance; and effective property ta…
Predicting City Government Structure
This study employs discriminant function analysis to test the capacity of demographic and regional variables to predict city governmental structure-mayor versus manager government, partisan versus nonpartisan elections, and ward versus at-large council constituencies. Ambiguities in the existing literature regarding the relative influence of ethnicity versus regionalism on structural reform are clarified. Discriminant function analysis provides a…
Municipal Electoral Structure and the Election of Councilwomen
A survey of the 946 American cities having populations in excess of 25,000 in 1980 reveals very little relationship between election structures and the presence of women on their councils. These results hold for the full data set as well as for four regional subsets. The evidence does not sustain the desirability hypothesis that suggests women will less often be elected in cities where the position is more valued. Women serve somewhat more freque…
Predicting City Government Structure
This study employs discriminant function analysis to test the capacity of demographic and regional variables to predict city governmental structure-mayor versus manager government, partisan versus nonpartisan elections, and ward versus at-large council constituencies. Ambiguities in the existing literature regarding the relative influence of ethnicity versus regionalism on structural reform are clarified. Discriminant function analysis provides a…
Special District Governments: A Note on Their Use as Property Tax Relief Mechanisms in the 1970s
Taxing and Spending Politics: A Generational Perspective
The aging of the American population has important ramifications for public policy. Economists have long been predicting intergenerational economic warfare based upon their close look at the nation's changing demographics. It is time for political scientists to focus on this issue, especially since taxing and spending issues are increasingly at the forefront of most elections, whether at the national or state and local levels. This research exami…
Staggered Terms and Black Representation
Courts, the Justice Department, and civil rights groups have charged that staggered terms dilute minority political influence. This assertion is examined in the dual contexts of state senates and city councils. Neither bivariate nor multivariate analyses find use of overlapping terms to be associated with less representation of blacks in senates or southern municipalities. The percent black in the polity translates into black representation at ab…
Emergency Management: Gauging the Extensiveness and Quality of Public-and Private-Sector Collaboration at the Local Level
This empirically based study compares the extensiveness and perceived quality of public and private emergency management—related collaborations at the grassroots level, based on a statewide survey of Florida county and city officials. The extensiveness of local officials’ involvement in private-sector collaboration is on par with their emergency management—related interactions with public-sector entities. County officials are more likely than cit…
Interlocal Emergency Management Collaboration: Vertical and Horizontal Roadblocks
This study, based on a statewide survey of local officials in Florida, examines the degree to which vertical and horizontal roadblocks to interlocal cooperation persist well after the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina mega-disasters. Respondents evaluate the degree to which vertical constraints (state and federal mandates) and horizontal constraints (political tensions and competition for funding; incompatible communication equipment and inconsistent in…
Homeland Security Preparedness: The Rebirth of Regionalism
The homeland security mission has placed many new demands on the U.S. system of federalism. The successful implementation of homeland security policy requires cooperation among all levels of government—federal, state, and local. Regionalism offers a powerful tool for encouraging greater intergovernmental cooperation and improved homeland security preparedness. We assess the impact of regionalism on intergovernmental cooperation and the implementa…
Mad” About Mandates: The Issue of Who Should Pay for What Resurfaces in the 1990s
In 1990, constitutional amendment proposals were put before the voters in Florida and Wisconsin (nonbinding) to limit unfunded state mandates. This brought the number of states with constitutionally based mandate-reimbursement requirements to fifteen. Voter support was garnered by attributing local property-tax increasesand loss oflocalcontrol over spending priorities to unfundedstate mandates. The Florida and Wisconsin efforts came close on the …
State vs. Local Public Sector Growth; A Comparison of Determinant Models
Spouses as Campaign Surrogates: Strategic Appearances by Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates' Wives in the 2004 Election
It is clear from the presidential primary campaign that 2008 can legitimately be labeled “the year of the spouse as surrogate.” The sheer number of candidates on both sides of the aisle and the heavily front-loaded campaign season have made using the wives—and husband—of the candidates a “must.” Never before has media attention been so heavily focused on the spouses. In fact, they have often been an equal, or in some cases, bigger story than the …
State constitutions and women: Leading or lagging agents of change
Tax Structures in American Cities: Levels, Reliance, and Rates
ECENT financial catastrophes in several major U.S. cities, particularly New York City, have demonstrated the costs of ignoring the revenue side of municipal budgets. The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain, through systematic comparative analysis, variations in the tax structure of the central cities of the 243 SMSAs (1970). Specifically, the focus is on three tax structures: levels (per capitas) ; reliance; and effective property ta…
Predicting City Government Structure
This study employs discriminant function analysis to test the capacity of demographic and regional variables to predict city governmental structure-mayor versus manager government, partisan versus nonpartisan elections, and ward versus at-large council constituencies. Ambiguities in the existing literature regarding the relative influence of ethnicity versus regionalism on structural reform are clarified. Discriminant function analysis provides a…
Tax Structures in American Cities: Levels, Reliance, and Rates
ECENT financial catastrophes in several major U.S. cities, particularly New York City, have demonstrated the costs of ignoring the revenue side of municipal budgets. The purpose of this paper is to describe and explain, through systematic comparative analysis, variations in the tax structure of the central cities of the 243 SMSAs (1970). Specifically, the focus is on three tax structures: levels (per capitas) ; reliance; and effective property ta…
Special District Governments: A Note on Their Use as Property Tax Relief Mechanisms in the 1970s
Learning to cope
A global view
Staggered Terms and Black Representation
Courts, the Justice Department, and civil rights groups have charged that staggered terms dilute minority political influence. This assertion is examined in the dual contexts of state senates and city councils. Neither bivariate nor multivariate analyses find use of overlapping terms to be associated with less representation of blacks in senates or southern municipalities. The percent black in the polity translates into black representation at ab…
State constitutions and women: Leading or lagging agents of change
State vs. Local Public Sector Growth; A Comparison of Determinant Models
A Modest Rejoinder: The Case for Replication of Existing Models Using Longitudinal Time Frames
Municipal Electoral Structure and the Election of Councilwomen
A survey of the 946 American cities having populations in excess of 25,000 in 1980 reveals very little relationship between election structures and the presence of women on their councils. These results hold for the full data set as well as for four regional subsets. The evidence does not sustain the desirability hypothesis that suggests women will less often be elected in cities where the position is more valued. Women serve somewhat more freque…
Mad” About Mandates: The Issue of Who Should Pay for What Resurfaces in the 1990s
In 1990, constitutional amendment proposals were put before the voters in Florida and Wisconsin (nonbinding) to limit unfunded state mandates. This brought the number of states with constitutionally based mandate-reimbursement requirements to fifteen. Voter support was garnered by attributing local property-tax increasesand loss oflocalcontrol over spending priorities to unfundedstate mandates. The Florida and Wisconsin efforts came close on the …
Taxing and Spending Politics: A Generational Perspective
The aging of the American population has important ramifications for public policy. Economists have long been predicting intergenerational economic warfare based upon their close look at the nation's changing demographics. It is time for political scientists to focus on this issue, especially since taxing and spending issues are increasingly at the forefront of most elections, whether at the national or state and local levels. This research exami…
Homeland Security Preparedness: The Rebirth of Regionalism
The homeland security mission has placed many new demands on the U.S. system of federalism. The successful implementation of homeland security policy requires cooperation among all levels of government—federal, state, and local. Regionalism offers a powerful tool for encouraging greater intergovernmental cooperation and improved homeland security preparedness. We assess the impact of regionalism on intergovernmental cooperation and the implementa…
Spouses as Campaign Surrogates: Strategic Appearances by Presidential and Vice Presidential Candidates' Wives in the 2004 Election
It is clear from the presidential primary campaign that 2008 can legitimately be labeled “the year of the spouse as surrogate.” The sheer number of candidates on both sides of the aisle and the heavily front-loaded campaign season have made using the wives—and husband—of the candidates a “must.” Never before has media attention been so heavily focused on the spouses. In fact, they have often been an equal, or in some cases, bigger story than the …
Emergency Management: Gauging the Extensiveness and Quality of Public-and Private-Sector Collaboration at the Local Level
This empirically based study compares the extensiveness and perceived quality of public and private emergency management—related collaborations at the grassroots level, based on a statewide survey of Florida county and city officials. The extensiveness of local officials’ involvement in private-sector collaboration is on par with their emergency management—related interactions with public-sector entities. County officials are more likely than cit…
Interlocal Emergency Management Collaboration: Vertical and Horizontal Roadblocks
This study, based on a statewide survey of local officials in Florida, examines the degree to which vertical and horizontal roadblocks to interlocal cooperation persist well after the 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina mega-disasters. Respondents evaluate the degree to which vertical constraints (state and federal mandates) and horizontal constraints (political tensions and competition for funding; incompatible communication equipment and inconsistent in…
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