Charles O Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 700523 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles O Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles |
| FAMILY NAME | O Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES C O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 64 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 160 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 64 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Inter-Personal Presidency of Chief Executive George W. Bush: Review of Decision Points
At the very least, presidential memoirs can serve as cautionary tales. Many of the same political and policy challenges facing President Bush are likely to prevail in the near future. Additionally, the Twenty-Second Amendment is unlikely to be repealed, thus continuing to set a termination date for second-term presidents. Therefore, Decision Points is relevant text for whoever is inaugurated in 2013 and beyond
The Legitimacy of Inexperience: Leadership from Outside
Experience in politics and administration is typically thought of as legitimizing leadership. However, what if those with experience are judged to be poor performers in the premier leadership post in American politics the presidency? History provides a number of such cases indeed, nearly a quarter of the presidents can be so designated. This article identifies these instances and the successions to those presidents with little or no national-leve…
Novak on Novak: A Review of Robert D. Novak's The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington
Jones reviews Robert Novak's new book, Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington. While Novak is not reflective about the larger lessons of his experiences, the book sheds light on how journalists cover and uncover Washington politics and is recommended especially to those who still consider politics an important part of political science
Vice Presidents and Other Heirs Apparent: The Historical Experience of Experience
The 2008 presidential campaign is said to be an open contest, one lacking an incumbent seeking reelection or an heir apparent. It is true that neither a vice president nor a cabinet official with a presidential endorsement is running. But Hillary Clinton has validated her candidacy on the basis of her experience as first lady, a claim endorsed by her husband, a former president. This special form of heir apparentness raises questions about the hi…
R Ichard E. N Eustadt: Public Servant as Scholar
Richard E. Neustadt is the author of one of the most influential books ever written about political leadership. Headed for a career as a political-level bureaucrat, he “drifted” to academia after the 1952 election brought a Republican to the White House. He observed a disconnect between what he had experienced in the executive branch in Washington and what was then written about the Presidency. He decided to write a book that would close this gap…
Knowing What We Want to Know about the Presidency
Knowing What We Want to Know about the Presidency
Attention is directed to the intersection between the personal and the institutional in the study of the presidency, as suited to its place in the separated system. The postwar era is stressed, featuring, as it does, split‐party government in many variants. A range of research topics is proposed as a rich agenda of studies contributing to our understanding of the personal/institutional nexus
Professional Reputation and the Neustadt Formulation
This article was written for a conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The purpose was to acknowledge the impact of Richard E. Neustadt's Presidential Power, first published in 1960. The article explores the concept of professional reputation, so vital to Neustadt's perspective on presidential power. Neustadt's formulation is presented as a series of propositions so as to encourage empirical research. It is then propos…
Reinventing Leeway: The President and Agenda Certification
The separated system is designed for competitive invention and reinvention. Leeway is featured as a potential benefit for agenda setting, an inherently speculative activity. Presidents are well placed to certify agenda issues, to declare “Let's start here.” Often lacking overwhelming political capital, they perform this role most effectively by taking advantage of the leeway offered by separated institutions competing for shares of powers. The fr…
Reinventing Leeway: The President and Agenda Certification
The separated system is designed for competitive invention and reinvention. Leeway is featured as a potential benefit for agenda setting, an inherently speculative activity. Presidents are well placed to certify agenda issues, to declare “Let's start here.” Often lacking overwhelming political capital, they perform this role most effectively by taking advantage of the leeway offered by separated institutions competing for shares of powers. The fr…
The Presidency and the Press
The separated system
A Way of Life and Law: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1994
This address stresses the importance of the study of lawmaking. Three advantages in particular are emphasized: lawmaking is the core decision-making process in a democracy, its study offers an opportunity for Americanists to overcome concentrations on a single institution, and it provides a basis for comparative analysis. The discussion focuses on statute making as a primary phase of lawmaking. Four concepts-iteration, inquiry, speculation, and d…
Elitism, Think Tanks, and American Politics: A Review Essay
I have spent my professional career studying and writing about American politics. I have yet to integrate satisfactorily the antipolitical attitudes that remain so prevalent among intellectuals in our system. Perhaps I take it as a personal defeat that a lifetime of teaching and research can have so little impact. Whatever the cause, I still register astonishment upon encountering the variety and depths of disdain for the American political syste…
The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations
Journal Article The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations. By John Robert Greene. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992. xviii, 296 pp. $29.95, ISBN 0-253-32637-0.) Get access Charles O. Jones Charles O. Jones University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 3, December 1993, Pages 1168–1169, https://doi.org/10.23…
Noticing Divided Government
Fiorina, Morris. Divided Government. New York: Macmillan, 1992. Pp. xi, 138. $13.00 Paperback. Jacobson, Gary C. The Electoral Origins of Divided Government: Competition' in U.S. House Elections, 1946-1988. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1990. Pp. xvi, 152. $15.95. Mayhew, David R. Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking, and Investigations, 1946-1990. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Pp. viii, 228. $25.00 Hardback
Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill from Eisehower to Reagan, by Mark A. Peterson
The Diffusion of Responsibility: An Alternative Perspective for National Policy Politics in the US
This article proposes a diffusion of responsibility perspective in analyzing post–World War II politics in the United States. Many analysts test the American system by a responsible party perspective, proposing reforms that will orient the system toward the goals of that model. Divided government has characterized much of the period since 1945 and identifiable (and wholly constitutional) politics has accompanied that development. The diffusion of…
The Separated Presidency— Making It Work in Contemporary Politics
Presidential Influence and the Administrative State
Journal Article Presidential Influence and the Administrative State. By Richard W. Waterman. (Knoxvillc: University of Tennessee Press, 1989. xii + 257 pp. Cloth, $37.95; paper, $18.95.) Get access Charles O. Jones Charles O. Jones University of Wisconsin, Madison Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 77, Issue 3, December 1990, Page 1101, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079144 Publi…
The Politics of Federal Reorganization: Creating the U.S. Department of Education, by Beryl A. Radin and Willis D. Hawley
The Trusteeship Presidency: Jimmy Carter and the United States Congress
The Trusteeship Presidency: Jimmy Carter and the United States Congress
Journal Article The Trusteeship Presidency: Jimmy Carter and the United States Congress. By Charles O.Jones. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988. xxvii + 225 pp. $24.95.) Get access Robert C. McMath, Jr. Robert C. McMath, Jr. Georgia Institute of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 664–665, https://doi.org/10.230…
Mistrust but Verify: Memoirs of the Reagan Era
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On Being an Editor Twice
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Joseph G. Cannon and Howard W. Smith: An Essay on the Limits of Leadership in the House of Representatives
Speculative Augmentation in Federal Air Pollution Policy-Making
The Effect of Energy Politics on Congressional and Executive Organization in the 1970s
The Minority Party and Policy-Making in the House of Representatives
Considerable attention has recently been focused on political oppositions in democracies. A recent book examines oppositions in various western countries and a journal called Government and Opposition was founded in 1965. The significance of the role of an opposition in democracies does not have to be stressed. It is generally accepted.What of the role of the opposition in the United States? Robert A. Dahl notes that one must use the plural when …
Inter-Party Competition for Congressional Seats
by the conflicting requirements of competition and stability. We want our system of representation to be sensitive to competitive pressures and, at the same time, stable for continuity of leadership and program. We are apt to emphasize - at least in the rhetoric of our democratic myth - the need for competition. It may be fair to say that in the game of politics, as in football, we believe that the best results for all concerned, spectators and p…
Representation in Congress: The Case of the House Agriculture Committee
Students of American politics are told that our political system is fundamentally a representative democracy. Concepts of representaion, since Burke, have commonly employed his distinction between action taken in response to instructions from constituents and action based on an independent appraisal of the national interest. A very recent analysis has offered a refinement of this, by distinguishing three types: "delegate," "trustee" and "politico…
The Place of Policy Analysis in Political Science: Five Perspectives
A Way of Life and Law: Presidential Address, American Political Science Association, 1994
This address stresses the importance of the study of lawmaking. Three advantages in particular are emphasized: lawmaking is the core decision-making process in a democracy, its study offers an opportunity for Americanists to overcome concentrations on a single institution, and it provides a basis for comparative analysis. The discussion focuses on statute making as a primary phase of lawmaking. Four concepts-iteration, inquiry, speculation, and d…
Doing Before Knowing: Concept Development in Political Research
Professional Reputation and the Neustadt Formulation
This article was written for a conference at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The purpose was to acknowledge the impact of Richard E. Neustadt's Presidential Power, first published in 1960. The article explores the concept of professional reputation, so vital to Neustadt's perspective on presidential power. Neustadt's formulation is presented as a series of propositions so as to encourage empirical research. It is then propos…
From Gold to Garbage: A Bibliographical Essay on Politics and the Environment
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Reinventing Leeway: The President and Agenda Certification
The separated system is designed for competitive invention and reinvention. Leeway is featured as a potential benefit for agenda setting, an inherently speculative activity. Presidents are well placed to certify agenda issues, to declare “Let's start here.” Often lacking overwhelming political capital, they perform this role most effectively by taking advantage of the leeway offered by separated institutions competing for shares of powers. The fr…
The Presidency and the Press
Policy Analysis: Academic Utility for Practical Rhetoric
Notes on Interviewing Members of the House of Representatives
Journal Article Notes on Interviewing Members of the House of Representatives Get access CHARLES O. JONES CHARLES O. JONES University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 3, FALL 1959, Pages 404–406, https://doi.org/10.1086/266893 Published: 01 January 1959
Vice Presidents and Other Heirs Apparent: The Historical Experience of Experience
The 2008 presidential campaign is said to be an open contest, one lacking an incumbent seeking reelection or an heir apparent. It is true that neither a vice president nor a cabinet official with a presidential endorsement is running. But Hillary Clinton has validated her candidacy on the basis of her experience as first lady, a claim endorsed by her husband, a former president. This special form of heir apparentness raises questions about the hi…
The Diffusion of Responsibility: An Alternative Perspective for National Policy Politics in the US
This article proposes a diffusion of responsibility perspective in analyzing post–World War II politics in the United States. Many analysts test the American system by a responsible party perspective, proposing reforms that will orient the system toward the goals of that model. Divided government has characterized much of the period since 1945 and identifiable (and wholly constitutional) politics has accompanied that development. The diffusion of…
Carter and Congress: From the Outside In
It seems a reasonable enough proposition that a president will organize his congressional relations to suit his policy goals and his personal style. Available literature supports this expectation – at least before the administration of Jimmy Carter. But, of course, recent presidents have been wise in the ways of Washington as a consequence of lengthy experience in the nation's capital. In fact, most have served in Congress. Among post-Second Worl…
The Policy Studies Perspective
R Ichard E. N Eustadt: Public Servant as Scholar
Richard E. Neustadt is the author of one of the most influential books ever written about political leadership. Headed for a career as a political-level bureaucrat, he “drifted” to academia after the 1952 election brought a Republican to the White House. He observed a disconnect between what he had experienced in the executive branch in Washington and what was then written about the Presidency. He decided to write a book that would close this gap…
Mistrust but Verify: Memoirs of the Reagan Era
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Report of the Managing Editor of the American Political Science Review, 1976–1977
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Notes on Interviewing Members of the House of Representatives
Journal Article Notes on Interviewing Members of the House of Representatives Get access CHARLES O. JONES CHARLES O. JONES University of Wisconsin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 23, Issue 3, FALL 1959, Pages 404–406, https://doi.org/10.1086/266893 Published: 01 January 1959
Representation in Congress: The Case of the House Agriculture Committee
Students of American politics are told that our political system is fundamentally a representative democracy. Concepts of representaion, since Burke, have commonly employed his distinction between action taken in response to instructions from constituents and action based on an independent appraisal of the national interest. A very recent analysis has offered a refinement of this, by distinguishing three types: "delegate," "trustee" and "politico…
A Suggested Scheme for Classifying Congressional Campaigns
Journal Article A SUGGESTED SCHEME FOR CLASSIFYING CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGNS Get access CHARLES O. JONES CHARLES O. JONES †† The author is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wellesley College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 26, Issue 1, SPRING 1962, Pages 126–132, https://doi.org/10.1086/267079 Published: 01 January 1962
The Washington Lobbyists
Inter-Party Competition for Congressional Seats
by the conflicting requirements of competition and stability. We want our system of representation to be sensitive to competitive pressures and, at the same time, stable for continuity of leadership and program. We are apt to emphasize - at least in the rhetoric of our democratic myth - the need for competition. It may be fair to say that in the game of politics, as in football, we believe that the best results for all concerned, spectators and p…
Party and Policy-Making: The House Republican Policy Committee
American Party Politics: Essays and Readings
Liberals and Communism: The "Red Decade" Revisited
Politics and Power: The United States Senate, 1869-1901. David J. Rothman
Joseph G. Cannon and Howard W. Smith: An Essay on the Limits of Leadership in the House of Representatives
The Minority Party and Policy-Making in the House of Representatives
Considerable attention has recently been focused on political oppositions in democracies. A recent book examines oppositions in various western countries and a journal called Government and Opposition was founded in 1965. The significance of the role of an opposition in democracies does not have to be stressed. It is generally accepted.What of the role of the opposition in the United States? Robert A. Dahl notes that one must use the plural when …
The Challenge of Pre-Collegiate Education
Politics and Policy: The Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson Years
Reevaluating the Hatch Act: A Report on the Commission on Political Activity of Government Personnel
The first southern strategy
Mr. Chairman - Wilbur D. Mills
The Limits of Public Support: Air Pollution Agency Development
A first and fundamental source of power for administrative agencies in American society is their ability to attract outside support. Strength in a constituency is no less an asset for an American administrator than it is for a politician, and some agencies have succeeded in building outside support as formidable as that of any political organization. The lack of such support severely circumscribes the ability of an agency to achieve its goals, an…
From Gold to Garbage: A Bibliographical Essay on Politics and the Environment
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Report of the Treasurer, 1972–73
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Education of a Congressman: The Newsletters of Morris K. Udall
Federal — State — Local Sharing in Air Pollution Control
FEDERAL — STATE — LOCAL SHARING IN AIR POLLUTION CONTROL Get access Charles O. Jones Charles O. Jones University of Pittsburgh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 4, Issue 1, Winter 1974, Pages 69–85, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038295 Published: 01 January 1974
Report of the Treasurer 1973–74
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Between Party Battalions and Committee Suzerainty
President Nixon's challenge to congressional authority in the early months of 1973 stimulated critical review of how Congress does its work. As Lord Bryce observed long ago, of the three methods to facilitate the operation of large assemblies, the United States has emphasized development of a strong committee system. While providing many advantages, Bryce noted that the system also tends to lessen cohesion, reduce responsibility and lower public …
Speculative Augmentation in Federal Air Pollution Policy-Making
Doing Before Knowing: Concept Development in Political Research
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