William Buchanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 972350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Buchanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Buchanan |
| SIGNATURE | BUCHANAN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 232 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Mozart Studies 2
State of the art, Glasgow, 1855
In 1855 an exhibition of photography was organised in Glasgow for the visit of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The aim of the exhibition was made clear in the notice inviting contributions which appeared in the Liverpool Photographic Journal on 14 July, that year. It was to be no less than ‘illustrative of the present state of the art’. This exhibition of photography came between the very first, held in London in December …
Award Recipients
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Election Predictions
Journal Article Election Predictions: An Empirical Assessment Get access William Buchanan William Buchanan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 222–227, https://doi.org/10.1086/268976 Published: 01 January 1986
Edward Lee Pinney
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The Democratic Party Primary in Virginia
Voters' Choice
Nominal and Ordinal Bivariate Statistics
The menu of statistics used in the analysis of bivariate tables of nominal and ordinal data is substantial, including among others C, y, D, dyx.dxy, Vp, K, ka, Xb, k, Q, T, two kinds of Ta and Tb, Tc and V, not to mention x2 and other significance tests. This bewildering array is more satisfactory to those who invent statistics than to those who use them, either as analysts or as consumers of political analysis. In choosing a measure of relations…
How nations see each other
Reinforcing and attracting functions of yielding
Political Science Laboratory
Reliable and Unreliable Respondents
Reliable and Unreliable Respondents
Delay of Reinforcement and Delay of Punishment in Persuasive Communication
Persuasive communications, which 140 Ss read aloud, included a statement of the opinion to be learned, followed by neutral material, and then by the argument (information supporting the opinion without repeating i t ) . Delay of argument (time interval between opinion statement and argument) was varied either by interrupting reading of neutral material ( 5 and 2 0 sec.) or without interruption by using neurral material of appropriate length (mean…
Politics and Federalism
The American public retains a genuine affection for the idea of grass-roots government. The Republican party has failed, despite conscientious effort, to use this sentiment as a lever to strengthen state and local and limit national power. Federalism weakened political parties from the start, but the national party organization has not become stronger along with the national government. The Republican party has ap parently been too weak to brake …
Stendhal. John Atherton
Social Consensus in Persuasive Communication
A communicator consensus technique for quantitative variation of communicator credibility was developed. 80 Ss were exposed to persuasive arguments advocated by “all the experts” (high-consensus) and “somewhat less than half the experts” (low-consensus). High consensus resulted in greater opinion formation than did low consensus ( p < .0001). Implications of the communicator consensus variable for several research problems were briefly discussed,…
The Nerves of Government. Karl W. Deutsch
The Legislative System
Federal Aid to Education on the Conservative-Liberal Scale
Virtually any popular definition of conservatism will lead one to expect conservatives to oppose federal aid to education, which they do. Overwhelming support of federal aid has characterized public opinion for a quarter of a cen tury. Attitudes on the issue are consistent with other elements of a conservative-liberal continuum on domestic welfare issues. Sentiment for federal aid appears to be frustrated by the un willingness or inability of sup…
The 1960 Election in California
The 1960 Election in California
ALIFORNIA gave 50.3 per cent of its two-party vote to Richard M. Nixon, just four-tenths of one per cent more than the nation, but enough to switch the state's electoral vote into the Republican column. Thus, superficially, it may be reported that the state failed for the first time since 1912 to follow (or produce) the national trend. More realistically, it may be said that California's behavior did mirror the nation's almost exactly. The state …
The Annals of Research
This recounting of the experience of the State Legislative Research Project demonstrates that it is possible to weld together a research team whose individual members come to the common task with different theoretical orientations, different substantive concerns, different approaches, and without even prior mutual acquaintance. It points to the benefits accruing from joint effort, and suggests some of the difficulties and costs of collaborative r…
American State Legislators' Role Orientations Toward Pressure Groups
The Legislator as Specialist
The Role of the Representative
The problem of representation is central to all discussions of the functions of legislatures or the behavior of legislators. For it is commonly taken for granted that, in democratic political systems, legislatures are both legitimate and authoritative decision-making institutions, and that it is their representative character which makes them authoritative and legitimate. Through the process of representation, presumably, legislatures are empower…
How nations see each other
Election Predictions
Journal Article Election Predictions: An Empirical Assessment Get access William Buchanan William Buchanan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 50, Issue 2, Summer 1986, Pages 222–227, https://doi.org/10.1086/268976 Published: 01 January 1986
The Legislator as Specialist
The Legislative System
Nominal and Ordinal Bivariate Statistics
The menu of statistics used in the analysis of bivariate tables of nominal and ordinal data is substantial, including among others C, y, D, dyx.dxy, Vp, K, ka, Xb, k, Q, T, two kinds of Ta and Tb, Tc and V, not to mention x2 and other significance tests. This bewildering array is more satisfactory to those who invent statistics than to those who use them, either as analysts or as consumers of political analysis. In choosing a measure of relations…
Reinforcing and attracting functions of yielding
How Others See Us
EVER since World War II the American family, worshiping at the altar of democracy, has been aware of covert glances and titterings from the rest of the congregation. Is our own devotion not inspiring our pewmates as it should? Is it their irreverence? Or is something lousing up our own appearance? Any discussion of this problem leads eventually to the use of the phrase stereotype of Americans. How do foreigners come by this stereotype? Is it accu…
American State Legislators' Role Orientations Toward Pressure Groups
An Inquiry into Purposive Voting
Reliable and Unreliable Respondents
How Others See Us
EVER since World War II the American family, worshiping at the altar of democracy, has been aware of covert glances and titterings from the rest of the congregation. Is our own devotion not inspiring our pewmates as it should? Is it their irreverence? Or is something lousing up our own appearance? Any discussion of this problem leads eventually to the use of the phrase stereotype of Americans. How do foreigners come by this stereotype? Is it accu…
An Inquiry into Purposive Voting
The Political Socialization of American State Legislators
The Role of the Representative
The problem of representation is central to all discussions of the functions of legislatures or the behavior of legislators. For it is commonly taken for granted that, in democratic political systems, legislatures are both legitimate and authoritative decision-making institutions, and that it is their representative character which makes them authoritative and legitimate. Through the process of representation, presumably, legislatures are empower…
American State Legislators' Role Orientations Toward Pressure Groups
The Legislator as Specialist
The 1960 Election in California
The 1960 Election in California
ALIFORNIA gave 50.3 per cent of its two-party vote to Richard M. Nixon, just four-tenths of one per cent more than the nation, but enough to switch the state's electoral vote into the Republican column. Thus, superficially, it may be reported that the state failed for the first time since 1912 to follow (or produce) the national trend. More realistically, it may be said that California's behavior did mirror the nation's almost exactly. The state …
The Annals of Research
This recounting of the experience of the State Legislative Research Project demonstrates that it is possible to weld together a research team whose individual members come to the common task with different theoretical orientations, different substantive concerns, different approaches, and without even prior mutual acquaintance. It points to the benefits accruing from joint effort, and suggests some of the difficulties and costs of collaborative r…
Federal Aid to Education on the Conservative-Liberal Scale
Virtually any popular definition of conservatism will lead one to expect conservatives to oppose federal aid to education, which they do. Overwhelming support of federal aid has characterized public opinion for a quarter of a cen tury. Attitudes on the issue are consistent with other elements of a conservative-liberal continuum on domestic welfare issues. Sentiment for federal aid appears to be frustrated by the un willingness or inability of sup…
Social Consensus in Persuasive Communication
A communicator consensus technique for quantitative variation of communicator credibility was developed. 80 Ss were exposed to persuasive arguments advocated by “all the experts” (high-consensus) and “somewhat less than half the experts” (low-consensus). High consensus resulted in greater opinion formation than did low consensus ( p < .0001). Implications of the communicator consensus variable for several research problems were briefly discussed,…
The Nerves of Government. Karl W. Deutsch
The Legislative System
Delay of Reinforcement and Delay of Punishment in Persuasive Communication
Persuasive communications, which 140 Ss read aloud, included a statement of the opinion to be learned, followed by neutral material, and then by the argument (information supporting the opinion without repeating i t ) . Delay of argument (time interval between opinion statement and argument) was varied either by interrupting reading of neutral material ( 5 and 2 0 sec.) or without interruption by using neurral material of appropriate length (mean…
Politics and Federalism
The American public retains a genuine affection for the idea of grass-roots government. The Republican party has failed, despite conscientious effort, to use this sentiment as a lever to strengthen state and local and limit national power. Federalism weakened political parties from the start, but the national party organization has not become stronger along with the national government. The Republican party has ap parently been too weak to brake …
Stendhal. John Atherton
Reliable and Unreliable Respondents
Reliable and Unreliable Respondents
Political Science Laboratory
How nations see each other
Reinforcing and attracting functions of yielding
Nominal and Ordinal Bivariate Statistics
The menu of statistics used in the analysis of bivariate tables of nominal and ordinal data is substantial, including among others C, y, D, dyx.dxy, Vp, K, ka, Xb, k, Q, T, two kinds of Ta and Tb, Tc and V, not to mention x2 and other significance tests. This bewildering array is more satisfactory to those who invent statistics than to those who use them, either as analysts or as consumers of political analysis. In choosing a measure of relations…
Voters' Choice
The Democratic Party Primary in Virginia
Edward Lee Pinney
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
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