L Sandy Maisel
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 682035 |
|---|---|
| NOME | L Sandy Maisel |
| PRENOMES | L Sandy |
| SOBRENOME | Maisel |
| ASSINATURA | MAISEL L S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Colby College |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 498 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1977 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2016 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
American Political Parties and Elections
American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction examines the electoral process in the United States and explains why it is widely misunderstood. Why is participation in elections so much lower in the United States than in other mature democracies? What role do the political parties play in the electoral process? And why do unregulated groups such as 527 advocacy organizations have as much, if not more, influence than candidate…
Campaigning
Candidate Emergence Revisited
IN THE SUMMER OF 2013, MORE THAN A YEAR before the filing deadline for congressional candidates in most states, political commentators were already conceding most races for the U.S. House of Representatives to one party or the other. Only about 10 percent of House races were deemed to be in play by the Cook Political Report and the Rothenberg Political Report, the two sources on which most political analysts rely for district-by-district assessme…
Who are Republicans? Who are Democrats? Who are the “others”?
‘Who are the Republicans? Who are the Democrats? Who are the ‘‘others’’?’ looks at the different relationships citizens have with political parties. Most American citizens have no formal affiliation with a political party but hold a strong impression of what the two major parties stand for. Many who consider themselves independent will vote for either Democrats or Republicans. Candidates run with the support of party organizations but once electe…
The Negative Consequences of Uncivil Political Discourse
Congressman Alan West (R-FL) passed the incivility duck test when he described his fellow Floridian Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) as “the most vile, unprofessional and despicable member of the House of Representatives.” That read like incivility, sounded like incivility, and was universally interpreted to be uncivil, thus it probably was
The State of Research on Political Parties and Interest Groups
This book addresses the literatures on political parties and on interest groups. It first presents a series of discussion on theoretical and methodological perspectives. This is followed by party history and parties in the electoral process. It then considers the party in government as well as bias and representation. The final part, on dimensions of behaviour, analyzes different interest group roles and forms of advocacy. The parties and interes…
Incumbency Reconsidered
Fundamental questions about incumbent safety have been difficult to answer because of the absence of adequate measures of incumbent prospects and incumbent quality. If incumbents retire because they are vulnerable, high reelection rates do not necessarily mean that electoral accountability is absent. Moreover, if the electoral success of incumbents reflects their high quality, high reelection rates do not necessarily indicate pathology in the sys…
American Political Parties and Elections
American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction examines the electoral process in the United States and explains why it is widely misunderstood. Why is participation in elections so much lower in the United States than in other mature democracies? What role do the political parties play in the electoral process? And why do unregulated groups such as 527 advocacy organizations have as much, if not more, influence than candidate…
When to Risk It? Institutions, Ambitions, and the Decision to Run for the U.S. House
The health of any democratic system depends on political ambition to generate a steady supply of quality candidates for office. Because most models of candidate entry assume ambition rather than model it, previous research fails to understand its roots in individual and institutional characteristics. We develop a two-stage model of progressive behavior that distinguishes between the formation of ambition for higher office and the decision to ente…
The Sense of a Woman
Do men and women differ in their decisionmaking calculus for higher office? To answer this question, we use a survey of state legislators (SLs) in 1998 to examine the conditions under which male and female SLs seek a position in the U.S. House of Representatives. We consider three ways in which gender may influence ambition and the decision to run—indirectly, directly, and interactively—and we find evidence of all three effects. Female state legi…
The Impact of Campaign Reform on Political Discourse
DARRELL M. WEST is the John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and the director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. He is the author of Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance and various articles on media, advertising, and political campaigns. L. SANDY MAISEL is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government and director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic…
National Party Efforts to Recruit State Legislators to Run for the U.S. House
We explore factors that influence the chances that a state legislator will be the target of national party recruitment to run for the U.S. House. Using data from a sample of legislators in 200 U.S. House districts, we find that national party contact reflects strategic considerations of party interests. State legislators serving in professional institutions and in competitive districts are most likely to be contacted by national party leaders. In…
Quality Counts
Competitive elections are essential to representative democracy. Competition in U.S. House elections is low in part because incumbents have strategic advantages that deter strong potential candidates from running. Many observers conclude that incumbents retain their seats without full accountability to the electorate, but the mechanisms of deterrence have never been fully explored from the perspective of strong potential candidates. Based on a su…
Pick a Name. Any Name
Professor Maisel identifies the Democratic presidential candidates with the best prospects and explains what each must do to win the nomination. He evaluates the candidates based on four aspects of the campaign: fundraising, geographic constituency, name recognition and ideological constituency. The unusually heavy frontloaded nomination process gives candidates with the strongest finances and organization better odds than ever to be the Democrat…
The Not-So-Simple Calculus of Winning
As the individual qualities of potential House candidates improve, their prospects in both the nomination and general election go up. The same is not true, however, for two key characteristics of the district context in which potential candidates might run: the party of the potential candidate in relation to the incumbent and the partisan makeup of the district. The direction of the effects of both incumbency and district partisanship on prospect…
Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century
Journal Article Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century Get access Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century by John A. Farrell. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 2001. 784 pp. $29.95. L. Sandy Maisel L. Sandy Maisel Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 132–133, https://doi.org/10.2307/798100 Published: 15 February 2013
Gazette
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Pivotal Politics
Journal Article Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking Get access Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking by Keith Krehbiel. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998. 258 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $17.00. L. Sandy Maisel L. Sandy Maisel Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 508–509, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658212 Publi…
The Politics of Government-Funded Research
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Competing Principals
Party Decline in America
Determinants of Candidate Emergence in U. S. House Elections
Senate Retirements and Progressive Ambition among House Members in 1996
In this article we examine the decisions made by the 85 United States representatives from the 13 states from which United States senators were retiring in 1996 and by the 137 representatives from states holding Senate elections in which incumbents were seeking reelection. We use these data to examine individual-level decision making in order to reassess the conventional wisdom on progressive ambition of House members. Using a decision calculus d…
Conflict and Compromise
Journal Article Conflict and Compromise: How Congress Makes the Law, by Ronald D. Elving Get access Conflict and Compromise: How Congress Makes the Law by Ronald D. Elving. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994. 320 pp. $25.00. L. Sandy Maisel L. Sandy Maisel Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 111, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pages 181–182, https://doi.org/10.2307/215194…
On the Inadequacy and Inappropriateness of the Replication Standard
Gary King has done a great service to the discipline in raising the question of how we meet appropriate standards for assuring that our published work advances the collective knowledge concerning government and politics that is in our mutual professional interest. He has done so in a truly collegial manner, stating his view, raising concerns, and inviting discussion. The editors of PS are using this publication in precisely the proper way by prov…
The Sense of a Woman
Do men and women differ in their decisionmaking calculus for higher office? To answer this question, we use a survey of state legislators (SLs) in 1998 to examine the conditions under which male and female SLs seek a position in the U.S. House of Representatives. We consider three ways in which gender may influence ambition and the decision to run—indirectly, directly, and interactively—and we find evidence of all three effects. Female state legi…
Quality Counts
Competitive elections are essential to representative democracy. Competition in U.S. House elections is low in part because incumbents have strategic advantages that deter strong potential candidates from running. Many observers conclude that incumbents retain their seats without full accountability to the electorate, but the mechanisms of deterrence have never been fully explored from the perspective of strong potential candidates. Based on a su…
The Not-So-Simple Calculus of Winning
As the individual qualities of potential House candidates improve, their prospects in both the nomination and general election go up. The same is not true, however, for two key characteristics of the district context in which potential candidates might run: the party of the potential candidate in relation to the incumbent and the partisan makeup of the district. The direction of the effects of both incumbency and district partisanship on prospect…
Determinants of Candidate Emergence in U. S. House Elections
Incumbency Reconsidered
Fundamental questions about incumbent safety have been difficult to answer because of the absence of adequate measures of incumbent prospects and incumbent quality. If incumbents retire because they are vulnerable, high reelection rates do not necessarily mean that electoral accountability is absent. Moreover, if the electoral success of incumbents reflects their high quality, high reelection rates do not necessarily indicate pathology in the sys…
National Party Efforts to Recruit State Legislators to Run for the U.S. House
We explore factors that influence the chances that a state legislator will be the target of national party recruitment to run for the U.S. House. Using data from a sample of legislators in 200 U.S. House districts, we find that national party contact reflects strategic considerations of party interests. State legislators serving in professional institutions and in competitive districts are most likely to be contacted by national party leaders. In…
Pivotal Politics
Journal Article Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking Get access Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking by Keith Krehbiel. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998. 258 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $17.00. L. Sandy Maisel L. Sandy Maisel Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 508–509, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658212 Publi…
The Negative Consequences of Uncivil Political Discourse
Congressman Alan West (R-FL) passed the incivility duck test when he described his fellow Floridian Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D) as “the most vile, unprofessional and despicable member of the House of Representatives.” That read like incivility, sounded like incivility, and was universally interpreted to be uncivil, thus it probably was
Candidate Emergence Revisited
IN THE SUMMER OF 2013, MORE THAN A YEAR before the filing deadline for congressional candidates in most states, political commentators were already conceding most races for the U.S. House of Representatives to one party or the other. Only about 10 percent of House races were deemed to be in play by the Cook Political Report and the Rothenberg Political Report, the two sources on which most political analysts rely for district-by-district assessme…
The Platform-Writing Process
One never knows what to make of party platforms. On the one hand, they are the most important document that a political party produces. The platform tells you what the party stands for; it defines in explicit terms why partisans deserve to be elected. On the other hand, they are worthless pieces of paper. How many citizens can tell you what is in the parties' platforms? Who knows where the differences really lie? Who cares? Political scientists e…
Competing Principals
Under the Watchful Eye
This collection of essays grew out of a three-day symposium on Campaigning for the Presidency held at the University of California, San Diego, in December 1991. While the conference covered a range of topics, the campaign experts gathered in southern California on the eve of the 1992 primary season felt strongly that the increased power of television represented the most significant change in campaigning for the presidency in modern times. This v…
The Electoral Antecedents of Policy Innovations
This article explores the dilemma surrounding the general utility of realignment theory in analyzing the connection between elections and policy shifts; the theory seems to work well in the American context but is less useful in explaining British politics. We reverse the normal analysis, focusing on periods associated with major policy shifts and attempting to discover cross-national similarities in the elections associated with those policy shi…
The Impact of Campaign Reform on Political Discourse
DARRELL M. WEST is the John Hazen White Professor of Public Policy and Political Science and the director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. He is the author of Digital Government: Technology and Public Sector Performance and various articles on media, advertising, and political campaigns. L. SANDY MAISEL is the William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Government and director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic…
The Politics of Government-Funded Research
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Conflict and Compromise
Journal Article Conflict and Compromise: How Congress Makes the Law, by Ronald D. Elving Get access Conflict and Compromise: How Congress Makes the Law by Ronald D. Elving. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994. 320 pp. $25.00. L. Sandy Maisel L. Sandy Maisel Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 111, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pages 181–182, https://doi.org/10.2307/215194…
The New Presidential Elite
"Campaign Management in Transition or "The Party's over
Excruciating, but not Enlightening Detail
The White House and Capitol Hill
Journal Article The White House and Capitol Hill: The Politics of Presidential Persuasion, by Nigel Bowles Get access The White House and Capitol Hill: The Politics of Presidential Persuasion by Nigel Bowles. New York, Clarendon Press, 1987. 261 pp. $39.95. L. Sandy Maisel L. Sandy Maisel Harvard University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 103, Issue 1, Spring 1988, Pages…
The Electoral Antecedents of Policy Innovations
This article explores the dilemma surrounding the general utility of realignment theory in analyzing the connection between elections and policy shifts; the theory seems to work well in the American context but is less useful in explaining British politics. We reverse the normal analysis, focusing on periods associated with major policy shifts and attempting to discover cross-national similarities in the elections associated with those policy shi…
Activities and Appointments
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Electing a President
Divided We Govern
Under the Watchful Eye
This collection of essays grew out of a three-day symposium on Campaigning for the Presidency held at the University of California, San Diego, in December 1991. While the conference covered a range of topics, the campaign experts gathered in southern California on the eve of the 1992 primary season felt strongly that the increased power of television represented the most significant change in campaigning for the presidency in modern times. This v…
Political Parties and Elections in the United States
Journal Article Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia. 2 vols. Ed. by L. Sandy Maisel. (New York: Garland, 1991. xxii + 1345 pp. $150.00, ISBN 0-8240-7975-2.) Get access Richard Jensen Richard Jensen University of Illinois, Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 79, Issue 4, March 1993, Pages 1713–1714, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080378 Pub…
The Platform-Writing Process
One never knows what to make of party platforms. On the one hand, they are the most important document that a political party produces. The platform tells you what the party stands for; it defines in explicit terms why partisans deserve to be elected. On the other hand, they are worthless pieces of paper. How many citizens can tell you what is in the parties' platforms? Who knows where the differences really lie? Who cares? Political scientists e…
On the Inadequacy and Inappropriateness of the Replication Standard
Gary King has done a great service to the discipline in raising the question of how we meet appropriate standards for assuring that our published work advances the collective knowledge concerning government and politics that is in our mutual professional interest. He has done so in a truly collegial manner, stating his view, raising concerns, and inviting discussion. The editors of PS are using this publication in precisely the proper way by prov…
Congressional Candidate Emergence
Burrell, Barbara C. A Woman's Place Is in the House: Campaigning for Congress in a Feminist Era. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Pp. 211. $37.50 hardbound. Fowler, Linda L. Candidates, Congress and the American Democracy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1993. Pp. x, 240. $42.50 hardbound, $16.95 softbound. Kazee, Thomas A., editor. Who Runs for Congress? Ambition, Context, and Candidate Emergence. Washington, DC: CQ Press,…
Conflict and Compromise
Journal Article Conflict and Compromise: How Congress Makes the Law, by Ronald D. Elving Get access Conflict and Compromise: How Congress Makes the Law by Ronald D. Elving. New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994. 320 pp. $25.00. L. Sandy Maisel L. Sandy Maisel Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 111, Issue 1, Spring 1996, Pages 181–182, https://doi.org/10.2307/215194…
Determinants of Candidate Emergence in U. S. House Elections
Senate Retirements and Progressive Ambition among House Members in 1996
In this article we examine the decisions made by the 85 United States representatives from the 13 states from which United States senators were retiring in 1996 and by the 137 representatives from states holding Senate elections in which incumbents were seeking reelection. We use these data to examine individual-level decision making in order to reassess the conventional wisdom on progressive ambition of House members. Using a decision calculus d…
The Politics of Government-Funded Research
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
Competing Principals
Party Decline in America
Pivotal Politics
Journal Article Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking Get access Pivotal Politics: A Theory of U.S. Lawmaking by Keith Krehbiel. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1998. 258 pp. Cloth, $50.00; paper, $17.00. L. Sandy Maisel L. Sandy Maisel Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 114, Issue 3, Fall 1999, Pages 508–509, https://doi.org/10.2307/2658212 Publi…
Gazette
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
Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century
Journal Article Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century Get access Tip O'Neill and the Democratic Century by John A. Farrell. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 2001. 784 pp. $29.95. L. Sandy Maisel L. Sandy Maisel Colby College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 117, Issue 1, Spring 2002, Pages 132–133, https://doi.org/10.2307/798100 Published: 15 February 2013
Pick a Name. Any Name
Professor Maisel identifies the Democratic presidential candidates with the best prospects and explains what each must do to win the nomination. He evaluates the candidates based on four aspects of the campaign: fundraising, geographic constituency, name recognition and ideological constituency. The unusually heavy frontloaded nomination process gives candidates with the strongest finances and organization better odds than ever to be the Democrat…
The Not-So-Simple Calculus of Winning
As the individual qualities of potential House candidates improve, their prospects in both the nomination and general election go up. The same is not true, however, for two key characteristics of the district context in which potential candidates might run: the party of the potential candidate in relation to the incumbent and the partisan makeup of the district. The direction of the effects of both incumbency and district partisanship on prospect…
Quality Counts
Competitive elections are essential to representative democracy. Competition in U.S. House elections is low in part because incumbents have strategic advantages that deter strong potential candidates from running. Many observers conclude that incumbents retain their seats without full accountability to the electorate, but the mechanisms of deterrence have never been fully explored from the perspective of strong potential candidates. Based on a su…
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