Research Publications 2008

Research Publications 2007

• Johansen, Morgen. 2007. “The Effect of Female Strategic Managers on Organizational Performance.” Public Organization Review 7 (3): 269-279.

Research Publications 2006

• Brulé, David. 2006. “Congressional Opposition, the Economy, and U.S. Dispute Initiation, 1946-1994.” Journal of Conflict Resolution 50: 463-483.



• Brulé, David J., and Alex Mintz. 2006. “Blank Check or Marching Orders? Public Opinion and the Presidential Use of Force.” In Internal-External Approaches, Levels and Methods of Analysis in International Politics: Crossing Boundaries, Harvey Starr, ed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.



• Haider-Markel, Donald P., Mahalley D. Allen, and Morgen Johansen. 2006. "Understanding Variations in Media Coverage of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: Comparing Media Outlets in Their Coverage of Lawrence v. Texas." The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 11: 64-85.
  
  
• Meier, Kenneth J. , Carl Doerfler, Daniel Hawes, Alisa K. Hicklin, and Rene R. Rocha. 2006. "The Role of Management and Representation in Improving Performance of Disadvantaged Students: An Application of Bum Phillips's 'Don Shula Rule'." Review of Policy Research 23 (5):963-1110.
  
  
• Meier, Kenneth J., and Daniel Hawes. 2006. “Le lien entre represéntativité passive et active de l’administration.” [The Linkages between Active and Passive Bureaucratic Representation] Revue française d’Administration publique (Number 118, 2006), 265-280.
  
  
• Meier, Kenneth J., Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr., and Holly T. Goerdel. 2006. “Management Activity and Program Performance: Gender as Management Capital.” Public Administration Review 66 (1): 24-36.



• Mintz, Alex, John T. Chatagnier and David J. Brulé. 2006. “Being bin Laden: An Applied Decision Analysis Procedure for Analyzing and Predicting Terrorists Decisions.” In Ami Pedazhur, ed. Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism The Globalization of Martyrdom, London: Taylor & Francis: 152-178.



• Vaughn, Justin S.2006.
  
  • "Approval Rating."
  
  
  • "Candidate-Centered Elections."
  
  
  • "Coattails."
  
  
  • "Demagoguery
  
  
  • "U.S. Senate Elections."
  
  
  • "Electoral College."
  
  
  • "Midterm Elections
  
  
  • "Rock the Vote."
    
  
  In The Encyclopedia of American Parties and Elections. Howard R. Ernst and Larry J. Sabato, eds. (Facts on File Library of American History).
  



• Vaughn, Justin S., and Jose D. Villalobos. 2006. “Conceptualizing and Measuring White House Staff Influence on Presidential Rhetoric.” Presidential Studies Quarterly (36): 681-688.



• Villalobos, Jose. 2006. “When Made to Choose: Cross Pressured Republican Senators and George W. Bush's Private Account Plan.” Dialogue on Presidential Challenges and Leadership: 25-37. Center for the Study of the Presidency.

2005

• Brulé, David J. 2005. “Explaining and Forecasting Foreign Policy Decisions: A Poliheuristic Analysis of the Iran Hostage Rescue Decision.” International Studies Perspectives 6 (1): 99-113.
  



• Goerdel, Holly T. 2005. “Taking Initiative: Proactive Management and Organizational Performance in Networked Environments.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. Advance access published on July 13, 2005



• Heath, Roseanna Michelle, Leslie Schwindt-Bayer, and Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson. 2005. "Women on the Sidelines: Women's Representation on Committees in Latin American Legislatures. American Journal of Political Science 49 (2): 420-36.



• Hill. Gregory C. 2005. “The Effects of Managerial Succession on Organizational Performance." Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 15 (4): 585-597.



• Hill, Kim Quaile, and Tetsuya Matsubayashi. 2005. "Civic Engagement and Mass-Elite Policy Agenda Agreement in American Communities." American Political Science Review 99 (2): 215-24.



• Jordan, Sara. 2005. "Methodological Balkanization, Language Games and the Persistence of the Identity Crisis in Public Administration: A Student's Perspective." Administrative Theory and Praxis 27 (4): 689-706.



• Junko,Yano, Tetsuya Matsubayashi, and Yoshitaka Nishizawa. 2005. "Jichitaikibo to Jyumin no Seijisanka (City Size and Political Participation)." Sennkyo Gakkai Kiyo (Reviews of Electoral Studies) 4: 63-78.



• Leighley, Jan E., and Tetsuya Matsubayashi. 2005. "Voter Mobilization." Guide to Political Campaigns in America, ed. Paul S. Herrnson. Washington D.C.: CQ Press.

2004

• Chupp, Jesse, and Cary J. Nederman. 2004. “The Calvinist Background to Johannes Althusius’ Idea of Religious Toleration.” In Jurisprudenz, Politische Theorie und Politische Theologie , ed. Frederick, S. Carney, Heinz Schilling and Dieter Wyduckel. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot: 243-260.



• Grossback, Lawrence J., Sean Nicholson-Crotty, and David A. M. Peterson. 2004. “Ideology and Learning in Policy Diffusion.” American Politics Research 32 (5): 521-545.



• Jordan, Sara. “Bureaucracy” 2004. In The New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Maryanne Cline Horowitz, ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons Publishers.



• Nicholson-Crotty Sean, and Laurence J. O'Toole, Jr. 2004. “Public Management and Organizational Performance: The Case of Law Enforcement Agencies.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 14 (1): 1-18.



• Kimball, David, Chris Owens, and Katherine McAndrew Keeney. 2004. “Unrecorded Votes and Political Representation.” In Election Administration, ed. Robert Watson, Gainesville: University Press of Florida.



• Owens, Chris. “Content Analysis.” 2004. Appendix in Jan E. Leighley, Mass Media and Politics: A Social Science Perspective. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.

2003

• Goerdel, Holly T. 2003. “Organizations, Structure, and Diverse Clientele: An Examination of Decentralization, Organizational Performance, and the Latino Dropout Problem.” A Report of the Texas Educational Excellence Project.



• McGee, Sibel. 2003. “National or European Identities: Loyalties in the European Union.” Working Paper Series. The BMW Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.



• Meier, Kenneth J., Laurence J. O’Toole, and Holly T. Goerdel. 2003. “School Superintendents and School Performance: Quality Matters.” A Report of the Texas Educational Excellence.



• Nicholson-Crotty, Jill, and Kenneth J. Meier. 2003. “Politics, Structure, and Public Policy: The Case of Higher Education. ” Educational Policy 17 (1): 80-97.



• Nicholson-Crotty, Sean, and Kenneth J. Meier. 2003. “Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Federal Criminal Justice Sanctions.” Political Research Quarterly 56 (2): 119-25 .



• Taylor-Robinson, Michelle M., and Roseanna Michelle Heath. 2003. "Do Women Legislators Have Different Policy Priorities Than Their Male Colleagues? A Critical Case Test" Women and Politics 24 (4): 77-101.



• Wood, Dan, and Nick A Theobald. 2003. “Political Responsiveness and Equity in Public Education Finance.” The Journal of Politics 56 (3): 718-738.

2002

• Goerdel, Holly T. 2002. “Structural Funding Policy in the European Union: An Evaluation of the Punctuated Equilibrium Theory.” European Union Notes 1 (4): 1-17.



• Flemming, Roy, and Glen S. Krutz. 2002. “Selecting Appeals for Judicial Review in Canada: A Replication and Multivariate Test of American Hypotheses.” Journal of Politics 64 (1): 232-248.



• Flemming, Roy, and Glen S. Krutz. 2002. “Repeat Litigators and Agenda Setting on the Supreme Court of Canada.” Canadian Journal of Political Science 35 (4): 811-833.



• Sean Nicholson-Crotty, and Kenneth J. Meier. 2002. “Size Doesn’t Matter: In Defense of Single State Studies.” State Politics and Policy Quarterly 2 (2002): 411-422.



• Sprecher, Christopher, and Sungho Park. 2002. “The United States and the India-Pakistan Rivalry: Assistance and Condemnation” In Conflict in Asia: Korea, China-Taiwan, and India-Pakistan, ed. Uk Heo and Shale Horowitz. Greenwood; Praeger Publishers.

2001

• Bohte, John, and Kenneth J. Meier. 2001. “Structure and the Performance of Public Organizations: Task Difficulty and Span of Control.” Public Organization Review 1 (3): 341-354.



• Johnson, Charles A., and Danette Brickman. 2001. Independent Counsel: The Law and the Investigations. Washington, DC: CQ Press.



• Doan, Alesha , and Jan Leighley.2001. “Women’s Participation in Electoral Politics: Myths and Realities.” In Gender Mosaic: Social Perspectives, ed. Dana Vannoy. Roxbury Press.



• Durant, Robert F. and Adam Warber L. 2001. “Networking in the Shadow of Hierarchy: Public Policy, the Administrative Presidency, and the Neoadministrative State” Presidential Studies Quarterly 31 (2): 221-44.
  
  
• Durham, Brandy. 2001. “Sarajevo,” “Grozny.” In Besieged: An Encyclopedia of Great Sieges From Ancient Times to the Present (ABC-CLIO, 2001).



• Ellcessor, Patrick, and Jan E. Leighley. 2001.“Voters, Non-Voters, and Minority Representation.” In Representation of Minorities in the American Political System, ed. Charles F. Menifield, University Press of America.



• Meier, Kenneth J. and John Bohte. 2001. “Structure and Discretion: Missing Links in Representative Bureaucracy. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory 11 (4): 455-470.



• Meier, Kenneth J., Warren S. Eller, Robert D. Wrinkle, and J. L. Polinard. 2001. “Zen and the Art of Policy Analysis: A Response to Nielsen and Wolf.” Journal of Politics 63: (2): 616-629.