James Alt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3718088 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James Alt |
| PRENOMES | James |
| SOBRENOME | Alt |
| ASSINATURA | ALT J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Harvard University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 22 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 373 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1975 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Inequality, Labor Market Segmentation, and Preferences for Redistribution
We formalize and examine two overlapping models that show how rising inequality combined with ethnic and racial heterogeneity can explain why many advanced industrial countries have experienced a drop in support for redistribution as inequality has risen. One model, based on altruism and homophily, focuses on the effect of increasing “social distance” between the poor and the middle class, especially when minorities are increasingly overrepresent…
It Isn't Just about Greece
This article analyzes the political origins of differences in adherence to the fiscal framework of the European Union (EU). It shows how incentives to use fiscal policy for electoral purposes and limited budget transparency at the national level, combined with the need to respond to fiscal rules at the supranational level, interact to systematically undermine the Economic and Monetary Union through the employment of fiscal gimmicks or creative ac…
Disentangling Accountability and Competence in Elections
We exploit variation in U.S. gubernatorial term limits across states and time to empirically estimate two separate effects of elections on government performance. Holding tenure in office constant, differences in performance by reelection-eligible and term-limited incumbents identify an accountability effect: reelection-eligible governors have greater incentives to exert costly effort on behalf of voters. Holding term-limit status constant, diffe…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue is devoted to original articles that reflect recent progress in one of the most exciting developments in Political Science, the National Science Foundation's (NSF) initiative called Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM). This initiative reflects the ideas and hard work of the Political Science team there, Jim Granato and Frank Scioli, backed up by the contributions of an EITM panel that assembled at NSF in July 20…
Thoughts on Mancur Olson's contribution to political science 1932–1998
Awards
Foundation of Uppsala University, Sweden, Lijphart
Perspectives on Positive Political Economy
Racial Politics and the City
Jim Sleeper The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), 355 pp
Partisan voting in the Spanish 1986 Nato referendum
Reclaiming C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills was that rarity among American thinkers — a political intellectual — who drew primarily on Western liberal traditions, American traditions of moral pragmatism and craftsmanship, the social classics and methods of sociology, to fashion a unique critical voice. Writing at the end of the liberal era, he brilliantly captured the outlines of a post-modern society he referred to as the “fourth epoch.” In this work, he anticipated and he…
The Criteria for Choosing a Politico‐Economic Model, Forecast Results for British Expenditures 1976–79
Alvin W. Gouldner (1920-1980)
On December 15, 1980 Alvin Gouldner died in Madrid after completing a lecture tour in Europe. In recent years he had found Europe more congenial to his style and it is fitting he should have died there. The American sociological establishment had tended to ignore his critique of sociology and his efforts to construct theoretical alternatives. It came as no surprise that at the memorial service held in St. Louis December 28, not one member of the …
Electoral Cycles, Budget Controls and Public Expenditure
This paper presents the results of tests of a number of models of public expenditure growth which have achieved wide currency. The main types of models examined are a permanent income model, electoral cycle models, and stabilization policy models. The models are tested with data from Britain and the United States of America and the results are compared with evidence from other countries. The paper concludes that government expenditure grows in pr…
Domination, Legitimation, and Resistance
Francis Hearn. Domination, Legitimation, and Resistance: The Incorporation of the Nineteenth-Century English Working Class. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1978. 309 pages. $17.95
Clique analysis of a tolerance relation
The Harary‐Ross clique detection algorithm has often been neglected in analyses of symmetric graphs and tolerance relations because of presumed storage and computation problems. This paper presents a modification of the original algorithm which overcomes these difficulties. The modified algorithm is shown to perform as well as other recent structurally different algorithms. Indeed, for arc densities which might be expected in typical sociometric …
Reply to Abramson
Paul Abramson's Note (this Journal , p. 505) is an interesting exercise in comparative data reanalysis. But we do not believe that it effectively refutes our argument that partisan weakening in Britain has been caused by ‘period’ rather than ‘generational’ factors
Angels in Plastic
Before the Liberal surge in 1974, survey research stressed that the Liberal vote was electorally volatile, socially representative, and negative in character. Data from 1974 indicates that the volatility of the Liberal vote owes more to the absence of a large core of stable Liberal voters than to any difference among parties in their ability to retain the votes of recent converts. Moreover, the small core of regular Liberal voters is unusually mi…
Politics and Expenditure Models
The quantitative study of local government expenditure has seen to a great extent British political scientists (as has been so often the case in urban politics) responding to an American lead. What were tested in this country were the Easton-based models of Dawson and Robinson, Dye, Sharkansky, and others, which postulated a very simple (three-variable) system. The three variables were expenditure, socio-economic context and political control, an…
Partisan Dealignment in Britain 1964–1974
Britain enjoys a textbook reputation as the historic home and model representative of a stable two-party system. From the factors most frequently cited by way of explanation – the electoral system, the absence of cross-cutting social cleavages – it is implied that this uncommon state of affairs is a natural and permanent part of British politics. This reputation is, in fact, somewhat exaggerated. At no time have MPs or parliamentary candidates in…
Beyond Class
One of the great social and cultural transformations of the twentieth century is the historical shift from the primacy of labor to that of consumption—the mediation of social relations and consciousness by consumer goods. This relatively recent phenomenon eclipses the class experience of wage-labor and raises commodity fetishism to a new form of domination: from extensive exploitation and misery (wage-labor), to reduced work time (leisure) and in…
Britain's Membership of the Eec
The main part of this article was written well before the June 1975 referendum in Britain. As set out in the title, our objective was to draw a profile of electoral opinions during the months following the first of the two general elections in 1974. We furthermore attempted to discern and evaluate the factors that would be likely to determine the setting for the actual referendum. Rather than rewriting this analysis with the benefit of hindsight,…
Work, Culture, and Crisis
“Work,” “the worker,” and “shop floor rebellion” constitute the heart, the nuts and bolts, of traditional or old left theory and practice in both the United States and Europe. Built within Marx's theory itself is the assumption (prescription?) that the degrading conditions of industrial labor, due to its status as commodity, coupled with its socially collective character and increasing poverty, would lead workers to overthrow that class responsib…
Partisan Dealignment in Britain 1964–1974
Britain enjoys a textbook reputation as the historic home and model representative of a stable two-party system. From the factors most frequently cited by way of explanation – the electoral system, the absence of cross-cutting social cleavages – it is implied that this uncommon state of affairs is a natural and permanent part of British politics. This reputation is, in fact, somewhat exaggerated. At no time have MPs or parliamentary candidates in…
Disentangling Accountability and Competence in Elections
We exploit variation in U.S. gubernatorial term limits across states and time to empirically estimate two separate effects of elections on government performance. Holding tenure in office constant, differences in performance by reelection-eligible and term-limited incumbents identify an accountability effect: reelection-eligible governors have greater incentives to exert costly effort on behalf of voters. Holding term-limit status constant, diffe…
Inequality, Labor Market Segmentation, and Preferences for Redistribution
We formalize and examine two overlapping models that show how rising inequality combined with ethnic and racial heterogeneity can explain why many advanced industrial countries have experienced a drop in support for redistribution as inequality has risen. One model, based on altruism and homophily, focuses on the effect of increasing “social distance” between the poor and the middle class, especially when minorities are increasingly overrepresent…
It Isn't Just about Greece
This article analyzes the political origins of differences in adherence to the fiscal framework of the European Union (EU). It shows how incentives to use fiscal policy for electoral purposes and limited budget transparency at the national level, combined with the need to respond to fiscal rules at the supranational level, interact to systematically undermine the Economic and Monetary Union through the employment of fiscal gimmicks or creative ac…
Angels in Plastic
Before the Liberal surge in 1974, survey research stressed that the Liberal vote was electorally volatile, socially representative, and negative in character. Data from 1974 indicates that the volatility of the Liberal vote owes more to the absence of a large core of stable Liberal voters than to any difference among parties in their ability to retain the votes of recent converts. Moreover, the small core of regular Liberal voters is unusually mi…
Beyond Class
One of the great social and cultural transformations of the twentieth century is the historical shift from the primacy of labor to that of consumption—the mediation of social relations and consciousness by consumer goods. This relatively recent phenomenon eclipses the class experience of wage-labor and raises commodity fetishism to a new form of domination: from extensive exploitation and misery (wage-labor), to reduced work time (leisure) and in…
Electoral Cycles, Budget Controls and Public Expenditure
This paper presents the results of tests of a number of models of public expenditure growth which have achieved wide currency. The main types of models examined are a permanent income model, electoral cycle models, and stabilization policy models. The models are tested with data from Britain and the United States of America and the results are compared with evidence from other countries. The paper concludes that government expenditure grows in pr…
Britain's Membership of the Eec
The main part of this article was written well before the June 1975 referendum in Britain. As set out in the title, our objective was to draw a profile of electoral opinions during the months following the first of the two general elections in 1974. We furthermore attempted to discern and evaluate the factors that would be likely to determine the setting for the actual referendum. Rather than rewriting this analysis with the benefit of hindsight,…
Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue is devoted to original articles that reflect recent progress in one of the most exciting developments in Political Science, the National Science Foundation's (NSF) initiative called Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM). This initiative reflects the ideas and hard work of the Political Science team there, Jim Granato and Frank Scioli, backed up by the contributions of an EITM panel that assembled at NSF in July 20…
Partisan voting in the Spanish 1986 Nato referendum
Reply to Abramson
Paul Abramson's Note (this Journal , p. 505) is an interesting exercise in comparative data reanalysis. But we do not believe that it effectively refutes our argument that partisan weakening in Britain has been caused by ‘period’ rather than ‘generational’ factors
Politics and Expenditure Models
The quantitative study of local government expenditure has seen to a great extent British political scientists (as has been so often the case in urban politics) responding to an American lead. What were tested in this country were the Easton-based models of Dawson and Robinson, Dye, Sharkansky, and others, which postulated a very simple (three-variable) system. The three variables were expenditure, socio-economic context and political control, an…
Thoughts on Mancur Olson's contribution to political science 1932–1998
Clique analysis of a tolerance relation
The Harary‐Ross clique detection algorithm has often been neglected in analyses of symmetric graphs and tolerance relations because of presumed storage and computation problems. This paper presents a modification of the original algorithm which overcomes these difficulties. The modified algorithm is shown to perform as well as other recent structurally different algorithms. Indeed, for arc densities which might be expected in typical sociometric …
Work, Culture, and Crisis
“Work,” “the worker,” and “shop floor rebellion” constitute the heart, the nuts and bolts, of traditional or old left theory and practice in both the United States and Europe. Built within Marx's theory itself is the assumption (prescription?) that the degrading conditions of industrial labor, due to its status as commodity, coupled with its socially collective character and increasing poverty, would lead workers to overthrow that class responsib…
Beyond Class
One of the great social and cultural transformations of the twentieth century is the historical shift from the primacy of labor to that of consumption—the mediation of social relations and consciousness by consumer goods. This relatively recent phenomenon eclipses the class experience of wage-labor and raises commodity fetishism to a new form of domination: from extensive exploitation and misery (wage-labor), to reduced work time (leisure) and in…
Britain's Membership of the Eec
The main part of this article was written well before the June 1975 referendum in Britain. As set out in the title, our objective was to draw a profile of electoral opinions during the months following the first of the two general elections in 1974. We furthermore attempted to discern and evaluate the factors that would be likely to determine the setting for the actual referendum. Rather than rewriting this analysis with the benefit of hindsight,…
Angels in Plastic
Before the Liberal surge in 1974, survey research stressed that the Liberal vote was electorally volatile, socially representative, and negative in character. Data from 1974 indicates that the volatility of the Liberal vote owes more to the absence of a large core of stable Liberal voters than to any difference among parties in their ability to retain the votes of recent converts. Moreover, the small core of regular Liberal voters is unusually mi…
Politics and Expenditure Models
The quantitative study of local government expenditure has seen to a great extent British political scientists (as has been so often the case in urban politics) responding to an American lead. What were tested in this country were the Easton-based models of Dawson and Robinson, Dye, Sharkansky, and others, which postulated a very simple (three-variable) system. The three variables were expenditure, socio-economic context and political control, an…
Partisan Dealignment in Britain 1964–1974
Britain enjoys a textbook reputation as the historic home and model representative of a stable two-party system. From the factors most frequently cited by way of explanation – the electoral system, the absence of cross-cutting social cleavages – it is implied that this uncommon state of affairs is a natural and permanent part of British politics. This reputation is, in fact, somewhat exaggerated. At no time have MPs or parliamentary candidates in…
Domination, Legitimation, and Resistance
Francis Hearn. Domination, Legitimation, and Resistance: The Incorporation of the Nineteenth-Century English Working Class. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1978. 309 pages. $17.95
Clique analysis of a tolerance relation
The Harary‐Ross clique detection algorithm has often been neglected in analyses of symmetric graphs and tolerance relations because of presumed storage and computation problems. This paper presents a modification of the original algorithm which overcomes these difficulties. The modified algorithm is shown to perform as well as other recent structurally different algorithms. Indeed, for arc densities which might be expected in typical sociometric …
Reply to Abramson
Paul Abramson's Note (this Journal , p. 505) is an interesting exercise in comparative data reanalysis. But we do not believe that it effectively refutes our argument that partisan weakening in Britain has been caused by ‘period’ rather than ‘generational’ factors
Alvin W. Gouldner (1920-1980)
On December 15, 1980 Alvin Gouldner died in Madrid after completing a lecture tour in Europe. In recent years he had found Europe more congenial to his style and it is fitting he should have died there. The American sociological establishment had tended to ignore his critique of sociology and his efforts to construct theoretical alternatives. It came as no surprise that at the memorial service held in St. Louis December 28, not one member of the …
Electoral Cycles, Budget Controls and Public Expenditure
This paper presents the results of tests of a number of models of public expenditure growth which have achieved wide currency. The main types of models examined are a permanent income model, electoral cycle models, and stabilization policy models. The models are tested with data from Britain and the United States of America and the results are compared with evidence from other countries. The paper concludes that government expenditure grows in pr…
The Criteria for Choosing a Politico‐Economic Model, Forecast Results for British Expenditures 1976–79
Reclaiming C. Wright Mills
C. Wright Mills was that rarity among American thinkers — a political intellectual — who drew primarily on Western liberal traditions, American traditions of moral pragmatism and craftsmanship, the social classics and methods of sociology, to fashion a unique critical voice. Writing at the end of the liberal era, he brilliantly captured the outlines of a post-modern society he referred to as the “fourth epoch.” In this work, he anticipated and he…
Racial Politics and the City
Jim Sleeper The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York (New York: W. W. Norton, 1990), 355 pp
Partisan voting in the Spanish 1986 Nato referendum
Perspectives on Positive Political Economy
Awards
Foundation of Uppsala University, Sweden, Lijphart
Thoughts on Mancur Olson's contribution to political science 1932–1998
Introduction to the Special Issue
This special issue is devoted to original articles that reflect recent progress in one of the most exciting developments in Political Science, the National Science Foundation's (NSF) initiative called Empirical Implications of Theoretical Models (EITM). This initiative reflects the ideas and hard work of the Political Science team there, Jim Granato and Frank Scioli, backed up by the contributions of an EITM panel that assembled at NSF in July 20…
Disentangling Accountability and Competence in Elections
We exploit variation in U.S. gubernatorial term limits across states and time to empirically estimate two separate effects of elections on government performance. Holding tenure in office constant, differences in performance by reelection-eligible and term-limited incumbents identify an accountability effect: reelection-eligible governors have greater incentives to exert costly effort on behalf of voters. Holding term-limit status constant, diffe…
It Isn't Just about Greece
This article analyzes the political origins of differences in adherence to the fiscal framework of the European Union (EU). It shows how incentives to use fiscal policy for electoral purposes and limited budget transparency at the national level, combined with the need to respond to fiscal rules at the supranational level, interact to systematically undermine the Economic and Monetary Union through the employment of fiscal gimmicks or creative ac…
Inequality, Labor Market Segmentation, and Preferences for Redistribution
We formalize and examine two overlapping models that show how rising inequality combined with ethnic and racial heterogeneity can explain why many advanced industrial countries have experienced a drop in support for redistribution as inequality has risen. One model, based on altruism and homophily, focuses on the effect of increasing “social distance” between the poor and the middle class, especially when minorities are increasingly overrepresent…
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