Robert Lyle Butterworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 966414 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Lyle Butterworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Lyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Butterworth |
| SIGNATURE | BUTTERWORTH R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Bureaucratic Politics and Congress’ Role in Weapons Development
In 1975 Congress required that budgetary requests for selected defense programs be accompanied by a statement assessing their arms control effects. Implementation of this requirement has fallen far short of unqualified success, and several proposals for remedying its failures are now being discussed. If remedies are based on incomplete or faulty diagnoses of the requirement's failures, however, they could exacerbate its dysfunctional aspects. Thi…
Do Conflict Managers Matter
Previous studies of conflict management efforts do not empirically describe the importance of such activities in terms of interstate conflict behavior in general. Some address only particular management techniques; others are concerned only with particular managers. None empirically characterizes management activities with respect to interstate conflict generally. This paper establishes the context for such earlier studies by examining management…
Rational Choice and Social Exchange
Organizing Collective Security
What leverage does international organization offer on problems of interdependence? At what system level can actors cooperate to what effect? And is their cooperation more the product of the “objective facts” of interdependence or of “subjective” political considerations? Insights into these problems are obtained by examining the operational network of relationships that developed between the UN and selected regional organizations in the field of…
Comment on Shepsle's “On the Size of Winning Coalitions”
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Rejoinder to Riker's “Comment”
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A Research Note on the Size of Winning Coalitions
This paper is concerned with the problem of relating aggregate coalition payoffs to the winnings of an individual player, so that some theoretical foundation might be developed for dealing with problems of coalition formation. Professor William H. Riker was concerned with this problem in his Theory of Political Coalitions ; in that book he developed a formulation holding that in several common political situations players would strive to form onl…
Do Conflict Managers Matter
Previous studies of conflict management efforts do not empirically describe the importance of such activities in terms of interstate conflict behavior in general. Some address only particular management techniques; others are concerned only with particular managers. None empirically characterizes management activities with respect to interstate conflict generally. This paper establishes the context for such earlier studies by examining management…
A Research Note on the Size of Winning Coalitions
This paper is concerned with the problem of relating aggregate coalition payoffs to the winnings of an individual player, so that some theoretical foundation might be developed for dealing with problems of coalition formation. Professor William H. Riker was concerned with this problem in his Theory of Political Coalitions ; in that book he developed a formulation holding that in several common political situations players would strive to form onl…
Organizing Collective Security
What leverage does international organization offer on problems of interdependence? At what system level can actors cooperate to what effect? And is their cooperation more the product of the “objective facts” of interdependence or of “subjective” political considerations? Insights into these problems are obtained by examining the operational network of relationships that developed between the UN and selected regional organizations in the field of…
Rejoinder to Riker's “Comment”
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
A Research Note on the Size of Winning Coalitions
This paper is concerned with the problem of relating aggregate coalition payoffs to the winnings of an individual player, so that some theoretical foundation might be developed for dealing with problems of coalition formation. Professor William H. Riker was concerned with this problem in his Theory of Political Coalitions ; in that book he developed a formulation holding that in several common political situations players would strive to form onl…
Comment on Shepsle's “On the Size of Winning Coalitions”
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.
Organizing Collective Security
What leverage does international organization offer on problems of interdependence? At what system level can actors cooperate to what effect? And is their cooperation more the product of the “objective facts” of interdependence or of “subjective” political considerations? Insights into these problems are obtained by examining the operational network of relationships that developed between the UN and selected regional organizations in the field of…
Rational Choice and Social Exchange
Do Conflict Managers Matter
Previous studies of conflict management efforts do not empirically describe the importance of such activities in terms of interstate conflict behavior in general. Some address only particular management techniques; others are concerned only with particular managers. None empirically characterizes management activities with respect to interstate conflict generally. This paper establishes the context for such earlier studies by examining management…
Bureaucratic Politics and Congress’ Role in Weapons Development
In 1975 Congress required that budgetary requests for selected defense programs be accompanied by a statement assessing their arms control effects. Implementation of this requirement has fallen far short of unqualified success, and several proposals for remedying its failures are now being discussed. If remedies are based on incomplete or faulty diagnoses of the requirement's failures, however, they could exacerbate its dysfunctional aspects. Thi…
Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Economics (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Economic Theory and Institutions (2 works) · Game Theory and Voting Systems (2 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (2 works)