Gerhard Loewenberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 750853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerhard Loewenberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Loewenberg |
| SIGNATURE | LOEWENBERG G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1958 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
British and French Parliaments in Comparative Perspective
Ira R. Buchler
Reflections: Graduate Education in Comparative Politics in the Mid-Twentieth Century
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Legislatures of Small States: A Comparative Study
Legislatures of Small States: A Comparative Study edited by Nicholas D. J. Baldwin. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. pp. x + 216. £80.00, hb. ISBN: 9780415538336. This volume provides case studies of sma
Russell M. Ross
Russell M. Ross died suddenly in Iowa City, Iowa, on April 27, 2010, at the age of 88. He was active until his final days. Following his retirement in 1991, he continued to teach students throughout the state in the University of Iowa's distance learning program. He taught in it until the day before he died
Developing attachments to new political institutions: A multi-level model of attitude formation in post-Communist Europe
In America and Western Europe, legislatures preceded democratization and contributed to the establishment and maintenance of democratic regimes in the late 18th and the 19th centuries. In Central and Eastern Europe in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, legislatures and democratic regimes appeared simultaneously. In the first 15 years of post-Communist transitions in 12 countries, attachments to the new regimes have been influenced by their i…
Path Dependence as an Explanation of the Institutional Stability of the German Parliament
The theory of path dependence identifies sources of institutional stability and change. It emphasises the importance of early, contingent events and increasing returns over time to explain patterns of institutional persistence. Used to describe the evolution of the procedural practices of the German Bundestag, this theory points to the long-term importance of the consensus that developed early in the 1950s among the floor leaders of three dominan…
Revue des revues
partie, sous quelque forme et de quelque manire que ce soit, est interdite sauf accord pralable et crit de l'diteur, en dehors des cas prvus par la lgislation en vigueur en France. Il est prcis que son stockage dans une base de donnes est galement interdit
The Contribution of Comparative Research to Measuring the Policy Preferences of Legislators
Comparative legislative research has contributed to an examination of the validity of roll‐call votes as measures of legislators' policy preferences. It has prompted an awareness of the influence of legislative structure on the composition of the voting record. Comparative research on members' ideal points has confronted the problems of selection effects, abstentions, the influence of the agenda setter, and the effect of party strategy. It has en…
A Half-Century Perspective on Apsa Annual Meetings
Iattended my first American Political Science Association meeting in 1949. It was an exciting experience for me as a first-year graduate student. I already venerated several established scholars in the profession. Herman Finer and Carl Friedrich were the towering figures on my intellectual landscape in comparative politics, my major field. In American politics, in which I was a teaching assistant, Edward S. Corwin and Carl B. Swisher were giants.…
Paradoxes of legislatures
Marjorie Mowlam
Marjorie Mowlam, who received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa in 1977, died at Pilgrim's Hospice in the United Kingdom on August 19 th at age 55 from the recurrence of a brain tumor that had been first diagnosed nine years earlier. In the interval between that diagnosis and her death, she rose to become Britain's most popular politician on the strength of her accomplishment as secretary of state for Northern Ireland in …
The Influence of European Émigré Scholars on Comparative Politics, 1925–1965
Among European émigré intellectuals who came to the United States between 1925 and 1940, a small group of prolific, influential scholars who received appointments at major colleges and universities helped to restore the comparative approach to the study of political systems. That approach had been dominant in the early years of the discipline but had been lost during its Americanization in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The teaching …
The Role of Parliamentary Committees in Coalition Governments: Keeping Tabs on Coalition Partners in the German Bundestag
The coexistence of strong parties and strong committees in the U.S. Congress has been interpreted in a principal-agent framework with committees regarded as agents of the congressional parties. In a parliamentary system having coalition governments, the coexistence of strong parties and strong committees has a comparable rationale. With data during a 40-year period, the authors showthat the coalition parties in the German parliament distribute co…
Roy Pierce
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Agenda-setting in the German Bundestag: Origins and Consequences of Party Dominance
The procedure for setting the agenda in the German Parliament originated in the middle of the nineteenth century in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies in which an informal committee arranged the agenda by an inter-party consensus. This party-dominated procedure, continued in the Reichstag of the Empire and the Weimar Republic, was institutionalised in the German Bundestag in the second half of the twentieth century. It takes account of the central …
Passages to Power: Legislative Recruitment in Advanced Democracies . Pippa Norris
The Effect of Legal Thresholds on the Revival of Former Communist Parties in East-Central Europe
Since 1989 six Central and East European countries have held competitive elections under 17 different electoral systems. After some experimentation, the new electoral systems, adopted on the initiative of noncommunist parties, provided for proportional representation, with legal thresholds designed to protect the new parties from smaller, more recent, and more extreme formations. These legal thresholds favored noncommunist parties initially but s…
Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics. Matthew Soberg Shugart , John M. Carey
Individual and Structural Influences on the Perception of Legislative Norms in Three European Parliaments
Members of the Belgian, Italian, and Swiss parliaments recognize norms of parliamentary courtesy and of partisan loyalty as constraints on their behavior. The structure of norm perceptions shows equivalence across the three countries. Perceptions of norms of courtesy vary among countries and are expressions of their national cultures, while perceptions of norms of party loyalty vary by the ideological tendency of parties independent of country. P…
Donald G. Morgan
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The Division of Political Science Into American and Non-American Politics: The Case of Legislatures
When undergraduates want to study legislatures, more often than not their choice is limited to a course on Congress, although they may find a course on the legislative process which includes attention to state legislatures. This is hardly a cause for student discontent. The first, and often the only, ambition of political science students is to learn about the American system of government. That is why the introductory course in the discipline is…
Germany Transformed: Political Culture and the New Politics. Kendall L. Baker , Russell J. Dalton , Kai Hildebrandt
Comparing the Representativeness of Parliaments
The responsiveness of parliaments to their constituencies is one aspect of their representativeness. It can be measured with data on how members of parliaments conceptualize their constituencies, the extent of their communication with their constituents, and their receptivity to their constituents' views. There is less variation among members of the same parliament in these respects than there is between members of six different parliaments: thos…
The Evolution of Public Perceptions of Adenauer as a Historic Leader: Test of a Mathematical Model of Attitude Change
G. R. Boynton, Gerhard Loewenberg, The Evolution of Public Perceptions of Adenauer as a Historic Leader: Test of a Mathematical Model of Attitude Change, Social Science History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 79-100
The Role of Parliamentary Committees in Coalition Governments: Keeping Tabs on Coalition Partners in the German Bundestag
The coexistence of strong parties and strong committees in the U.S. Congress has been interpreted in a principal-agent framework with committees regarded as agents of the congressional parties. In a parliamentary system having coalition governments, the coexistence of strong parties and strong committees has a comparable rationale. With data during a 40-year period, the authors showthat the coalition parties in the German parliament distribute co…
The Influence of Parliamentary Behavior on Regime Stability: Some Conceptual Clarifications
It is hardly novel to call attention to influence of parliaments on political stability. Parliaments originated as assemblages convened to gain consent for a king's government. The deepest roots of (the British) Parliament are not to be found in legislation, nor even in supply of finance, a recent work notes, but in king's need for some process, however rough and ready, by which he could obtain consent, or at least acquiescence, of influential se…
The Development of Public Support for Parliament in Germany, 1951–59
Systems theorists introduced the concept of ‘support’ to permit explanations of political stability and instability. Yet most attempts to verify the existence of a relationship between support and stability empirically have dealt with wellestablished political systems, and have relied on data collected at one point in time. This paper reports an initial effort to examine the growth of support for a new political regime using a series of sample su…
The Effect of Legal Thresholds on the Revival of Former Communist Parties in East-Central Europe
Since 1989 six Central and East European countries have held competitive elections under 17 different electoral systems. After some experimentation, the new electoral systems, adopted on the initiative of noncommunist parties, provided for proportional representation, with legal thresholds designed to protect the new parties from smaller, more recent, and more extreme formations. These legal thresholds favored noncommunist parties initially but s…
Comparing the Representativeness of Parliaments
The responsiveness of parliaments to their constituencies is one aspect of their representativeness. It can be measured with data on how members of parliaments conceptualize their constituencies, the extent of their communication with their constituents, and their receptivity to their constituents' views. There is less variation among members of the same parliament in these respects than there is between members of six different parliaments: thos…
Individual and Structural Influences on the Perception of Legislative Norms in Three European Parliaments
Members of the Belgian, Italian, and Swiss parliaments recognize norms of parliamentary courtesy and of partisan loyalty as constraints on their behavior. The structure of norm perceptions shows equivalence across the three countries. Perceptions of norms of courtesy vary among countries and are expressions of their national cultures, while perceptions of norms of party loyalty vary by the ideological tendency of parties independent of country. P…
Developing attachments to new political institutions: A multi-level model of attitude formation in post-Communist Europe
In America and Western Europe, legislatures preceded democratization and contributed to the establishment and maintenance of democratic regimes in the late 18th and the 19th centuries. In Central and Eastern Europe in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, legislatures and democratic regimes appeared simultaneously. In the first 15 years of post-Communist transitions in 12 countries, attachments to the new regimes have been influenced by their i…
The Decay of Support for Monarchy and the Hitler Regime in the Federal Republic of Germany
Public support for the existing institutions of government depends in part on public perceptions of the alternatives. This assertion will not come as news in those parts of the world where changing the regime is a regular part of political life. In France, for example, where regimes have been numbered to distinguish them from each other, it is common knowledge that public evaluations of the Fourth Republic depended on comparisons with the Third, …
The Influence of European Émigré Scholars on Comparative Politics, 1925–1965
Among European émigré intellectuals who came to the United States between 1925 and 1940, a small group of prolific, influential scholars who received appointments at major colleges and universities helped to restore the comparative approach to the study of political systems. That approach had been dominant in the early years of the discipline but had been lost during its Americanization in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The teaching …
Agenda-setting in the German Bundestag: Origins and Consequences of Party Dominance
The procedure for setting the agenda in the German Parliament originated in the middle of the nineteenth century in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies in which an informal committee arranged the agenda by an inter-party consensus. This party-dominated procedure, continued in the Reichstag of the Empire and the Weimar Republic, was institutionalised in the German Bundestag in the second half of the twentieth century. It takes account of the central …
The Remaking of the German Party System: Political & Socio-Economic Factors
The Contribution of Comparative Research to Measuring the Policy Preferences of Legislators
Comparative legislative research has contributed to an examination of the validity of roll‐call votes as measures of legislators' policy preferences. It has prompted an awareness of the influence of legislative structure on the composition of the voting record. Comparative research on members' ideal points has confronted the problems of selection effects, abstentions, the influence of the agenda setter, and the effect of party strategy. It has en…
The Cultural Roots of a New Legislature: Public Perceptions of the Korean National Assembly
A study of public attitudes toward the Korean National Assembly was undertaken in 1973 as part of a larger survey of public perceptions of legislators and the legislature in developing countries. It showed that about half of the Korean citizens are generally familiar with the legislature, and that this group belongs to the more modern segment of Korean society. Public expectations regarding the legislature are somewhat contradictory, but there is…
The Ethiopian No-Party State: A Note on the Functions of Political Parties in Developing States
The emergence of political parties performing important functions in the political system has characterized the recent history of much of the African continent. The new party systems have taken various forms, including single parties with a narrow ruling elite, as in Liberia, or with mass support, as in Guinea; two-party systems where one mass party is dominant, as is the case in Kenya; and multi-party systems, as in Nigeria and Somalia. In two s…
Path Dependence as an Explanation of the Institutional Stability of the German Parliament
The theory of path dependence identifies sources of institutional stability and change. It emphasises the importance of early, contingent events and increasing returns over time to explain patterns of institutional persistence. Used to describe the evolution of the procedural practices of the German Bundestag, this theory points to the long-term importance of the consensus that developed early in the 1950s among the floor leaders of three dominan…
Parliamentarism in Western Germany: The Functioning of the Bundestag
Although universal male suffrage as the basis for a representative assembly existed in Germany half a century earlier than in Great Britain, the Reichstag never occupied as important a position in the German constitutional order as the House of Commons did in the British. Neither in its representative function of integrating the community (in Friedrich's terms), nor in its deliberative function as a lawmaking and supervisory body, did the Reichst…
Legislatures of Small States: A Comparative Study
Legislatures of Small States: A Comparative Study edited by Nicholas D. J. Baldwin. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. pp. x + 216. £80.00, hb. ISBN: 9780415538336. This volume provides case studies of sma
The Division of Political Science Into American and Non-American Politics: The Case of Legislatures
When undergraduates want to study legislatures, more often than not their choice is limited to a course on Congress, although they may find a course on the legislative process which includes attention to state legislatures. This is hardly a cause for student discontent. The first, and often the only, ambition of political science students is to learn about the American system of government. That is why the introductory course in the discipline is…
Paradoxes of legislatures
The Transformation of British Labour Party Policy Since 1945
The British Constitution and the Structure of the Labour Party
The British Labour Party defies the classifications which students of the structure of political parties have developed. By its historical origin and its formal organization it would seem to be a mass party in the sense that Duverger and others have used that term. But it has also exhibited, notably since 1945, the characteristics of a traditional parliamentary party, denying its mass membership power and influence and allowing its parliamentary …
The Transformation of British Labour Party Policy Since 1945
Parliamentarism in Western Germany: The Functioning of the Bundestag
Although universal male suffrage as the basis for a representative assembly existed in Germany half a century earlier than in Great Britain, the Reichstag never occupied as important a position in the German constitutional order as the House of Commons did in the British. Neither in its representative function of integrating the community (in Friedrich's terms), nor in its deliberative function as a lawmaking and supervisory body, did the Reichst…
The Ethiopian No-Party State: A Note on the Functions of Political Parties in Developing States
The emergence of political parties performing important functions in the political system has characterized the recent history of much of the African continent. The new party systems have taken various forms, including single parties with a narrow ruling elite, as in Liberia, or with mass support, as in Guinea; two-party systems where one mass party is dominant, as is the case in Kenya; and multi-party systems, as in Nigeria and Somalia. In two s…
Parliament in the German Political System
Journal Article Loewenberg, G. Parliament in the German Political System Get access Loewenberg, G. Parliament in the German Political System.Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967. Pp. x, 371. Paul G. Kauper Paul G. Kauper *Professor of Law, University of Michigan. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 15, Issue 3, Summer 1966, Pages 567–569, https://doi.org/10.230…
Parliament in the German Political System
The Remaking of the German Party System: Political & Socio-Economic Factors
The Influence of Parliamentary Behavior on Regime Stability: Some Conceptual Clarifications
It is hardly novel to call attention to influence of parliaments on political stability. Parliaments originated as assemblages convened to gain consent for a king's government. The deepest roots of (the British) Parliament are not to be found in legislation, nor even in supply of finance, a recent work notes, but in king's need for some process, however rough and ready, by which he could obtain consent, or at least acquiescence, of influential se…
The Development of Public Support for Parliament in Germany, 1951–59
Systems theorists introduced the concept of ‘support’ to permit explanations of political stability and instability. Yet most attempts to verify the existence of a relationship between support and stability empirically have dealt with wellestablished political systems, and have relied on data collected at one point in time. This paper reports an initial effort to examine the growth of support for a new political regime using a series of sample su…
The Decay of Support for Monarchy and the Hitler Regime in the Federal Republic of Germany
Public support for the existing institutions of government depends in part on public perceptions of the alternatives. This assertion will not come as news in those parts of the world where changing the regime is a regular part of political life. In France, for example, where regimes have been numbered to distinguish them from each other, it is common knowledge that public evaluations of the Fourth Republic depended on comparisons with the Third, …
The Evolution of Public Perceptions of Adenauer as a Historic Leader: Test of a Mathematical Model of Attitude Change
G. R. Boynton, Gerhard Loewenberg, The Evolution of Public Perceptions of Adenauer as a Historic Leader: Test of a Mathematical Model of Attitude Change, Social Science History, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1976), pp. 79-100
The Cultural Roots of a New Legislature: Public Perceptions of the Korean National Assembly
A study of public attitudes toward the Korean National Assembly was undertaken in 1973 as part of a larger survey of public perceptions of legislators and the legislature in developing countries. It showed that about half of the Korean citizens are generally familiar with the legislature, and that this group belongs to the more modern segment of Korean society. Public expectations regarding the legislature are somewhat contradictory, but there is…
Comparing the Representativeness of Parliaments
The responsiveness of parliaments to their constituencies is one aspect of their representativeness. It can be measured with data on how members of parliaments conceptualize their constituencies, the extent of their communication with their constituents, and their receptivity to their constituents' views. There is less variation among members of the same parliament in these respects than there is between members of six different parliaments: thos…
Germany Transformed: Political Culture and the New Politics. Kendall L. Baker , Russell J. Dalton , Kai Hildebrandt
The Division of Political Science Into American and Non-American Politics: The Case of Legislatures
When undergraduates want to study legislatures, more often than not their choice is limited to a course on Congress, although they may find a course on the legislative process which includes attention to state legislatures. This is hardly a cause for student discontent. The first, and often the only, ambition of political science students is to learn about the American system of government. That is why the introductory course in the discipline is…
Donald G. Morgan
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Individual and Structural Influences on the Perception of Legislative Norms in Three European Parliaments
Members of the Belgian, Italian, and Swiss parliaments recognize norms of parliamentary courtesy and of partisan loyalty as constraints on their behavior. The structure of norm perceptions shows equivalence across the three countries. Perceptions of norms of courtesy vary among countries and are expressions of their national cultures, while perceptions of norms of party loyalty vary by the ideological tendency of parties independent of country. P…
Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics. Matthew Soberg Shugart , John M. Carey
Passages to Power: Legislative Recruitment in Advanced Democracies . Pippa Norris
The Effect of Legal Thresholds on the Revival of Former Communist Parties in East-Central Europe
Since 1989 six Central and East European countries have held competitive elections under 17 different electoral systems. After some experimentation, the new electoral systems, adopted on the initiative of noncommunist parties, provided for proportional representation, with legal thresholds designed to protect the new parties from smaller, more recent, and more extreme formations. These legal thresholds favored noncommunist parties initially but s…
Agenda-setting in the German Bundestag: Origins and Consequences of Party Dominance
The procedure for setting the agenda in the German Parliament originated in the middle of the nineteenth century in the Prussian Chamber of Deputies in which an informal committee arranged the agenda by an inter-party consensus. This party-dominated procedure, continued in the Reichstag of the Empire and the Weimar Republic, was institutionalised in the German Bundestag in the second half of the twentieth century. It takes account of the central …
Roy Pierce
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Role of Parliamentary Committees in Coalition Governments: Keeping Tabs on Coalition Partners in the German Bundestag
The coexistence of strong parties and strong committees in the U.S. Congress has been interpreted in a principal-agent framework with committees regarded as agents of the congressional parties. In a parliamentary system having coalition governments, the coexistence of strong parties and strong committees has a comparable rationale. With data during a 40-year period, the authors showthat the coalition parties in the German parliament distribute co…
Marjorie Mowlam
Marjorie Mowlam, who received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Iowa in 1977, died at Pilgrim's Hospice in the United Kingdom on August 19 th at age 55 from the recurrence of a brain tumor that had been first diagnosed nine years earlier. In the interval between that diagnosis and her death, she rose to become Britain's most popular politician on the strength of her accomplishment as secretary of state for Northern Ireland in …
The Influence of European Émigré Scholars on Comparative Politics, 1925–1965
Among European émigré intellectuals who came to the United States between 1925 and 1940, a small group of prolific, influential scholars who received appointments at major colleges and universities helped to restore the comparative approach to the study of political systems. That approach had been dominant in the early years of the discipline but had been lost during its Americanization in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The teaching …
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