Author: José M. SagüilloPublisher: Univ Santiago de Compostela
ISBN: 9788481219609
Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 660
Book Description
Congress, Formal Theories and Empirical Theories
Author: José M. SagüilloPublisher: Univ Santiago de Compostela
ISBN: 9788481219609
Category : Philosophy
Languages : es
Pages : 660
Book Description
Theory and Credibility
Author: Scott AshworthPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691215006
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
A clear and comprehensive framework for bridging the widening gap between theorists and empiricists in social science The credibility revolution, with its emphasis on empirical methods for causal inference, has led to concerns among scholars that the canonical questions about politics and society are being neglected because they are no longer deemed answerable. Theory and Credibility stakes out an opposing view—presenting a new vision of how, working together, the credibility revolution and formal theory can advance social scientific inquiry. This authoritative book covers the conceptual foundations and practicalities of both model building and research design, providing a new framework to link theory and empirics. Drawing on diverse examples from political science, it presents a typology of the rich set of interactions that are possible between theory and empirics. This typology opens up new ways for scholars to make progress on substantive questions, and enables researchers from disparate traditions to gain a deeper appreciation for each other's work and why it matters. Theory and Credibility shows theorists how to create models that are genuinely useful to empirical inquiry, and helps empiricists better understand how to structure their research in ways that speak to theoretically meaningful questions.
Positive Theories of Congressional Institutions
Author: Kenneth A. ShepslePublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472083190
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A comparison of rational choice models of Congress
Strange Bedfellows
Author: Robin PhinneyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107170362
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
This book develops a new theory of collaborative lobbying and influence to explain how antipoverty advocates gain influence in American social policymaking.
Information and Legislative Organization
Author: Keith KrehbielPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472064601
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
DIVPresents an alternative informational theory of legislative politics to challenge the conventional view /div
Power Without Persuasion
Author: William G. HowellPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691102708
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Since the early 1960s, scholarly thinking on the power of U.S. presidents has rested on these words: "Presidential power is the power to persuade." Power, in this formulation, is strictly about bargaining and convincing other political actors to do things the president cannot accomplish alone. Power without Persuasion argues otherwise. Focusing on presidents' ability to act unilaterally, William Howell provides the most theoretically substantial and far-reaching reevaluation of presidential power in many years. He argues that presidents regularly set public policies over vocal objections by Congress, interest groups, and the bureaucracy. Throughout U.S. history, going back to the Louisiana Purchase and the Emancipation Proclamation, presidents have set landmark policies on their own. More recently, Roosevelt interned Japanese Americans during World War II, Kennedy established the Peace Corps, Johnson got affirmative action underway, Reagan greatly expanded the president's powers of regulatory review, and Clinton extended protections to millions of acres of public lands. Since September 11, Bush has created a new cabinet post and constructed a parallel judicial system to try suspected terrorists. Howell not only presents numerous new empirical findings but goes well beyond the theoretical scope of previous studies. Drawing richly on game theory and the new institutionalism, he examines the political conditions under which presidents can change policy without congressional or judicial consent. Clearly written, Power without Persuasion asserts a compelling new formulation of presidential power, one whose implications will resound.
Rigid Designation and Theoretical Identities
Author: Joseph LaPortePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199609209
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Joseph LaPorte offers an original account of the connections between the reference of words for properties and kinds, and theoretical identity statements. He argues that terms for properties, as well as for concrete objects, are rigid designators, and defends the Kripkean tradition of theoretical identities.
A Behavioral Theory of Elections
Author: Jonathan BendorPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069113507X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Most theories of elections assume that voters and political actors are fully rational. This title provides a behavioral theory of elections based on the notion that all actors - politicians as well as voters - are only boundedly rational.
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Proceeding of the 1960 International Congress
Author: Lev D. BeklemishevPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080954715
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, Proceeding of the 1960 International Congress
Representation in Congress
Author: Kim Quaile HillPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316301028
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
Representation in Congress provides a theory of dyadic policy representation intended to account for when belief sharing, delegate, responsible party, trustee, and 'party elite led' models of representational linkage arise on specific policy issues. The book also presents empirical tests of most of the fundamental predictions for when such alternative models appear, and it presents tests of novel implications of the theory about other aspects of legislative behavior. Some of the latter tests resolve contradictory findings in the relevant, existing literature - such as whether and how electoral marginality affects representation, whether roll call vote extremism affects the re-election of incumbents, and what in fact is the representational behavior of switched seat legislators. All of the empirical tests provide evidence for the theory. Indeed, the full set of empirical tests provides evidence for the causal effects anticipated by the theory and much of the causal process behind those effects.