Robert P Stoker
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1487713 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Robert P Stoker |
| PRENOMES | Robert P |
| SOBRENOME | Stoker |
| ASSINATURA | STOKER R P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | George Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1577-1281 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 95 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Urban or Downtown Renaissance
An urban renaissance revitalizes city space to attract businesses, residents, and visitors. Renaissance projects align city space with changing opportunities, tastes, and lifestyles. Downtown areas are often targeted for renaissance projects. The motivation to undertake renaissance projects is rooted in competition between cities to attract residents and investment capital. Local pro‐growth coalitions that seek to increase the market and tax valu…
Obama’s Urban Legacy
We examine the distribution of selected place-based urban assistance grants provided by the Obama administration to the 50 largest U.S. cities. Our analysis contributes to understanding Obama’s urban legacy by separating planning from implementation grants, distinguishing between policy domains, and acknowledging the limitations of local policy coordination. Facing staunch Congressional opposition to its urban agenda, administration officials enc…
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
The Third Lie
Journal Article The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work—and a Blueprint for Change Get access The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work—and a Blueprint for Change by Richard J Gelles. Charlottesville, VA, Left Coast Press, 2012. 151 pp. Paper, $22.95. Robert P. Stoker Robert P. Stoker The George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128,…
The Effects of Beneficiary Targeting on Public Support for Social Policies
We assess the tendency for the public to use group‐centric policy evaluations with evidence from a survey experiment concerning two issues within the social policy domain, health care and aid to cities. By randomly varying target group identity within each issue and using both negatively and positively regarded groups our evidence shows that differences exist in the tendency for members of the public to use group‐centric heuristics. Group‐centric…
Rethinking Empowerment
The legacy of the federal government’s Empowerment Zone initiative is contested. The evidence undergirding the initiative’s legacy, however, is based primarily on models that estimate national effects. We use an alternative evaluation strategy that places greater emphasis on local Empowerment Zones as distinct programs. Our findings show that several cities did produce improvements that likely can be attributed to the EZ initiative. The results, …
Crafting Urban Policy
This article assesses how policy framing and targeting may influence public support for federal initiatives that address urban problems. Does directing federal aid to specific target groups, programmatic uses, or types of cities affect the level of public support? To explore these questions, the authors conducted two survey experiments asking whether respondents support aid to cities while randomly varying the framing and targeting conditions. Th…
Reforms at Risk
Journal Article Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted by Eric M. Patashnik Get access Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted by Eric M. Patashnik. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2008. 248 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. Robert P. Stoker Robert P. Stoker George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Q…
The Politics of Quasi-Government
The Politics of Quasi-Government: Hybrid Organizations and the Dynamics of Bureaucratic Control. By Jonathan G. S. Koppell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 239p. $60.00. Do policymakers surrender popular sovereignty by granting public authority to semiprivate institutions? Jonathan Koppell compares hybrid organizations and government agencies in three policy areas—housing, export promotion, and international market development—and con…
Verifying Compliance
Recent welfare reforms have regulated clients by linking behavioral requirements to the receipt of benefits (Ethridge and Percy, 1993; Handler and Hasenfeld, 1991). Such reforms use a generic policy instrument, social regulation, that has three characteristics: (1) rules or standards prescribing responsible behavior; (2) enforcement agents and auditors to monitor and deter deviations from the rules; and (3) applied to those who violate the rules …
Policy Design and Implementation Effectiveness
This study examines the successful implementation of a major structural change in a county criminal court, an institution particularly resistant to change. Implementation effectiveness is mainly attributed to policy design factors, especially the establishment by “lop” slate Supreme Court officials of an institutional mechanism to implement their selected policy goals. Composed of hey county court participants at the “bottom,” the mechanism facil…
A Regime Framework for Implementation Analysis
The diffusion of authority characteristic of federal governance challenges national leadership and complicates even the implementation of policy that promises mutual gains. To explore the problems of implementing national policy in a federalist context, this paper proposes a new approach to analysis, t h e implementation regime framework. From the regime perspective, the essential task of the implementation process is to create a context in which…
Employee Inefficacy in Selected Client Serving Bureaucracies
This analysis is based on a survey of middle and lower echelon employees in housing, community development, and community action agencies in Maryland. The results suggest that a complex and hierarchical work setting heightens the sense of powerlessness among agency employees. The analysis suggests further that employees cope with powerlessness, in part, by taking a narrow and limited view of task performance; and those with such a task orientatio…
The Politics of Quasi-Government
The Politics of Quasi-Government: Hybrid Organizations and the Dynamics of Bureaucratic Control. By Jonathan G. S. Koppell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 239p. $60.00. Do policymakers surrender popular sovereignty by granting public authority to semiprivate institutions? Jonathan Koppell compares hybrid organizations and government agencies in three policy areas—housing, export promotion, and international market development—and con…
The Effects of Beneficiary Targeting on Public Support for Social Policies
We assess the tendency for the public to use group‐centric policy evaluations with evidence from a survey experiment concerning two issues within the social policy domain, health care and aid to cities. By randomly varying target group identity within each issue and using both negatively and positively regarded groups our evidence shows that differences exist in the tendency for members of the public to use group‐centric heuristics. Group‐centric…
Crafting Urban Policy
This article assesses how policy framing and targeting may influence public support for federal initiatives that address urban problems. Does directing federal aid to specific target groups, programmatic uses, or types of cities affect the level of public support? To explore these questions, the authors conducted two survey experiments asking whether respondents support aid to cities while randomly varying the framing and targeting conditions. Th…
Rethinking Empowerment
The legacy of the federal government’s Empowerment Zone initiative is contested. The evidence undergirding the initiative’s legacy, however, is based primarily on models that estimate national effects. We use an alternative evaluation strategy that places greater emphasis on local Empowerment Zones as distinct programs. Our findings show that several cities did produce improvements that likely can be attributed to the EZ initiative. The results, …
Verifying Compliance
Recent welfare reforms have regulated clients by linking behavioral requirements to the receipt of benefits (Ethridge and Percy, 1993; Handler and Hasenfeld, 1991). Such reforms use a generic policy instrument, social regulation, that has three characteristics: (1) rules or standards prescribing responsible behavior; (2) enforcement agents and auditors to monitor and deter deviations from the rules; and (3) applied to those who violate the rules …
A Regime Framework for Implementation Analysis
The diffusion of authority characteristic of federal governance challenges national leadership and complicates even the implementation of policy that promises mutual gains. To explore the problems of implementing national policy in a federalist context, this paper proposes a new approach to analysis, t h e implementation regime framework. From the regime perspective, the essential task of the implementation process is to create a context in which…
Policy Design and Implementation Effectiveness
This study examines the successful implementation of a major structural change in a county criminal court, an institution particularly resistant to change. Implementation effectiveness is mainly attributed to policy design factors, especially the establishment by “lop” slate Supreme Court officials of an institutional mechanism to implement their selected policy goals. Composed of hey county court participants at the “bottom,” the mechanism facil…
Employee Inefficacy in Selected Client Serving Bureaucracies
This analysis is based on a survey of middle and lower echelon employees in housing, community development, and community action agencies in Maryland. The results suggest that a complex and hierarchical work setting heightens the sense of powerlessness among agency employees. The analysis suggests further that employees cope with powerlessness, in part, by taking a narrow and limited view of task performance; and those with such a task orientatio…
A Regime Framework for Implementation Analysis
The diffusion of authority characteristic of federal governance challenges national leadership and complicates even the implementation of policy that promises mutual gains. To explore the problems of implementing national policy in a federalist context, this paper proposes a new approach to analysis, t h e implementation regime framework. From the regime perspective, the essential task of the implementation process is to create a context in which…
Policy Design and Implementation Effectiveness
This study examines the successful implementation of a major structural change in a county criminal court, an institution particularly resistant to change. Implementation effectiveness is mainly attributed to policy design factors, especially the establishment by “lop” slate Supreme Court officials of an institutional mechanism to implement their selected policy goals. Composed of hey county court participants at the “bottom,” the mechanism facil…
Verifying Compliance
Recent welfare reforms have regulated clients by linking behavioral requirements to the receipt of benefits (Ethridge and Percy, 1993; Handler and Hasenfeld, 1991). Such reforms use a generic policy instrument, social regulation, that has three characteristics: (1) rules or standards prescribing responsible behavior; (2) enforcement agents and auditors to monitor and deter deviations from the rules; and (3) applied to those who violate the rules …
The Politics of Quasi-Government
The Politics of Quasi-Government: Hybrid Organizations and the Dynamics of Bureaucratic Control. By Jonathan G. S. Koppell. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003. 239p. $60.00. Do policymakers surrender popular sovereignty by granting public authority to semiprivate institutions? Jonathan Koppell compares hybrid organizations and government agencies in three policy areas—housing, export promotion, and international market development—and con…
Reforms at Risk
Journal Article Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted by Eric M. Patashnik Get access Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted by Eric M. Patashnik. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2008. 248 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.95. Robert P. Stoker Robert P. Stoker George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Q…
Rethinking Empowerment
The legacy of the federal government’s Empowerment Zone initiative is contested. The evidence undergirding the initiative’s legacy, however, is based primarily on models that estimate national effects. We use an alternative evaluation strategy that places greater emphasis on local Empowerment Zones as distinct programs. Our findings show that several cities did produce improvements that likely can be attributed to the EZ initiative. The results, …
Crafting Urban Policy
This article assesses how policy framing and targeting may influence public support for federal initiatives that address urban problems. Does directing federal aid to specific target groups, programmatic uses, or types of cities affect the level of public support? To explore these questions, the authors conducted two survey experiments asking whether respondents support aid to cities while randomly varying the framing and targeting conditions. Th…
The Third Lie
Journal Article The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work—and a Blueprint for Change Get access The Third Lie: Why Government Programs Don't Work—and a Blueprint for Change by Richard J Gelles. Charlottesville, VA, Left Coast Press, 2012. 151 pp. Paper, $22.95. Robert P. Stoker Robert P. Stoker The George Washington University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 128,…
The Effects of Beneficiary Targeting on Public Support for Social Policies
We assess the tendency for the public to use group‐centric policy evaluations with evidence from a survey experiment concerning two issues within the social policy domain, health care and aid to cities. By randomly varying target group identity within each issue and using both negatively and positively regarded groups our evidence shows that differences exist in the tendency for members of the public to use group‐centric heuristics. Group‐centric…
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
Urban or Downtown Renaissance
An urban renaissance revitalizes city space to attract businesses, residents, and visitors. Renaissance projects align city space with changing opportunities, tastes, and lifestyles. Downtown areas are often targeted for renaissance projects. The motivation to undertake renaissance projects is rooted in competition between cities to attract residents and investment capital. Local pro‐growth coalitions that seek to increase the market and tax valu…
Obama’s Urban Legacy
We examine the distribution of selected place-based urban assistance grants provided by the Obama administration to the 50 largest U.S. cities. Our analysis contributes to understanding Obama’s urban legacy by separating planning from implementation grants, distinguishing between policy domains, and acknowledging the limitations of local policy coordination. Facing staunch Congressional opposition to its urban agenda, administration officials enc…
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