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Replication Data for: Presidential Investment in the Administrative State
No full textGiven the U.S. president’s authority over the administrative state, one may expect that the chief executive invests great effort to build capacity within agencies to implement the tasks Congress and the president have assigned to them. The empirical data shows that this not the case. In this paper we explain how presidents strategically invest in administrative capacity, noting that presidents have few incentives to invest effort in capacity building in most agencies. We test our account with two analyses using new observational and survey data. First, we examine the time it took for the Bush, Obama, Trump, and Biden Administrations to nominate individuals to appointed positions. We find that presidents prioritize appointments to policy positions over management positions and that nominations occur sooner in agencies that implement presidential priorities. Second, we examine the responses of federal executives to the 2020 Survey on the Future of Government Service to see whether perceptions of presidential investment in administrative capacity match those anticipated by our predictions. We find that federal executives perceive higher levels of investment when the agency is a priority of the president and when the agency shares the president’s ideological leanings. We conclude by drawing out implications for our understanding of the modern presidency, particularly presidential reputation, and government performance
Replication Data for: Bureaucratic Autonomy and the Policymaking Capacity of United States Agencies
No full textDespite a renewed interest in the health of the U.S. administrative state, the absence of meaningful time-series measures of bureaucratic capacity hinders the testing of core theories of bureaucratic and executive politics. Using over 190 million personnel records, I estimate 5,590 yearly policymaking-capacity scores for 261 unique agencies from 1998 to 2021. These measures provide an invaluable tool as either an independent or dependent variable in studies of administrative policymaking. To illustrate the value of these measures, I test longstanding theories about the relationship between bureaucratic autonomy and capacity. In contrast with emerging survey research, this study demonstrates that agencies with higher levels of structural independence have higher levels of policymaking capacity
Natural Resources Research Institute Technical Report
No full textMinnesota’s National Forest Breeding Bird Monitoring Program has documented trends in forest bird abundances for 24 years. These data have provided insight into the impacts of forest management on breeding birds and helped inform the development of management policies and conservation initiatives.
This report summarizes forest bird monitoring data gathered from 1995 through 2018. Here we summarize the current status of species trends and overall trends for migration, habitat, and nesting guilds. We focus our discussion on species of conservation importance in the state to provide an ecological
context and discuss management implications of the observed patterns in the region for these species.Grinde, Alexis R; Walton, Nicholas G; Bednar, Joshua D; Liljenquist, Alexis L; Kolbe, Stephen. (2018). Minnesota National Forest Breeding Bird Monitoring Program Annual Report 1995–2018. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/204336
External interventions and the duration of civil wars
No full textThe authors combine an empirical model of external intervention, with a theoretical model of civil war duration. Their empirical model of intervention allows them to analyze civil war duration, using"expected"rather than"actual"external intervention as an explanatory variable in the duration model. Unlike previous studies, they find that external intervention is positively associated with the duration of civil war. They distinguish partial third-party interventions that extend the length of war, from multilateral"peace"operations, which have a mandate to restore peace without taking sides - and which typically take place at war's end, or at least when both sides have agreed to a cease-fire. In a future paper, the authors will examine whether partial third-party interventions - whatever their effect on a war's duration - increase the risk of war's recurrence. If that proves true, then even if interventions reduce the length of civil war, they may do so at the cost of further destabilizing the political system, and sowing the seeds of future rebellion.Children and Youth,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs,Post Conflict Reconstruction,Social Conflict and Violence,Peace&Peacekeeping,Post Conflict Reconstruction,International Affairs
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Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Awards
No full textThis paper was awarded a Nicholas and Anna Ricco Ethics Award for 2013. In this paper, the author discusses issues related to accountability versus autonomy and suggestions toward a more responsible practice of science
Characterization and structure in the development of Tudor comedy
No full textThe role of characterization in dramatic structure is assessed by theoretical criteria.
Characters who perform actions necessary for the completion of the narrative sequence are
said to be "bound" to the narrative; those without such obligations are "free". Characters
who maintain a single, constant meaning during the course of a play are said to be "static";
characters who change or develop into new roles are "dynamic". Horatian decorum
demanded that comic characters be static, and the characters of Plautine and Terentian
tradition were almost always bound to narrative intrigue. However, evaluations of six
Tudor comedies show an increasing use of non-classical characterization within the comic
form.
In the early comedies lohan lohan and Roister Doister all characters are bound and
static, yet the impetus to enlarge the role of characterization is evident. The characters of
lohan lohan are expanded from their French source, and Roister Doister includes
extraneous episodes in which Udall displays his braggart hero. Free characters abound in
Misogonus; as well the play brings dynamic characterization into the scope of comedy with
the conversion of its prodigal son.
Free characters offer new possibilities of non-narrative plotting. In comedies of the
1580s favourite traditional characters appear as diversions outside the action, and thematic
arrangements of characters inform the increasingly complex plots. Lyly stresses the
symbolic potential of characters in Endimion, whereas Greene uses dynamic
characterization to heighten the illusion of independent figures in Friar Bacon and Friar
Bungay. Love's Labour's Lost exposes the limitations of comic artifice by pulling the
characters between convention and individualization.
By the end of the sixteenth century free and dynamic characters had become
common, and characterization had established a sizable claim on the design of English
comedy. These developments set the English form apart from its neoclassical counterparts
Correction to:PTH1 receptor agonists for fracture risk: a systematic review and network meta-analysis (Osteoporosis International, (2025), 10.1007/s00198-025-07440-1)
No full textThe original online version of this article was revised: In this article, the author Olivier Bruyère's name was missing; the order in which the authors appeared in the author list was incorrectly given as: Charlotte Beaudart 1,2 · Nicola Veronese 1,3 · Jonathan Douxfils 4,5,6 · Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan 7 · Francesco Bolzetta 8 · Paolo Albanese 8 · Gianpaolo Voltan 8 · Majed Alokail 9 · Nicholas C. Harvey 1,10 · Nicholas R. Fuggle 1,10 · René Rizzoli 1,11 · Jean‑Yves Reginster 1,9 where it should have been: Charlotte Beaudart 1,2, Nicola Veronese 1,3, Jonathan Douxfils 4,5,6, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan 7, Francesco Bolzetta 8, Paolo Albanese 8, Gianpaolo Voltan 8, Majed Alokail 9, Nicholas C. Harvey 1,10, Nicholas R. Fuggle 1,10, Olivier Bruyère 1,11, René Rizzoli 1,12, Jean-Yves Reginster 1,9 In this article, the affiliation “Research Unit in Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium” for Olivier Bruyère was missing. The original article has been corrected.</p
Same business same system? a critique of organisation and the information systems process
No full textIn trying to understand any aspect surrounding the success and failure of information systems (IS) practice, concepts of organizational analysis become increasingly important. Many issues arise and must be dealt with when an information system is to be developed and implemented. In order to avoid information system failures, information system analysts should adopt an approach that exploits the intrinsic and contextually dependent characteristics of organizational activities. Such an exploitation acknowledges the uniqueness inherent in individual organizations and may inform the adoption of appropriate technologies that can then be innovatively employed for competitive advantage. In order to facilitate successful future organizational change practices and to lay the base for supporting overall information system effectiveness, there is a need to employ both in theory and in practice, ideas of organizational learning and (critically informed) interpretivist information system analysis, design and implementation
Absztrakt rendőrség: Jan Terpstra, Nicholas R. Fyfe és Renze Salet: The Abstract Police: A conceptual exploration of unintended changes of police organisations című tanulmányának ismertetése = Abstract Police : Review of the study of Jan Terpstra, Nicholas R. Fyfe and Renze Salet: The Abstract Police: A conceptual exploration of unintended changes of police organisations
No full textA globális biztonsági kockázatok kezelése, valamint a 21. század információtechnológiai fejlődése jelentős változásokat eredményezett a rendőrség és a társadalom kapcsolatában. E változások vizsgálata alapvető jelentőségű
a rendészet jövőbeni szerepének meghatározásához. A szerző e megfontolásból vállalkozik Jan Terpstra, Nicholas R. Fyfe és Renze Salet „The Abstract Police: A conceptual exploration of unintended changes of police organisations” címmel 2019 decemberében, a Sage Journal online kiadásában publikált tanulmányának ismertetésére. = Managing global security risks and the development of information technology in the 21st century have led to significant changes in the relationship between the police and the society. Examining these changes is essential to determine the future role of law enforcement. With this in mind, the author undertakes to present a study by Jan Terpstra, Nicholas R. Fyfe, and Renze
Salet, entitled “The Abstract Police: A Conceptual Exploration of Unintended Changes in Police Organizations,” published in the online edition of the Sage Journal in December 2019
Emperor and author : the writings of Julian the Apostate /
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Introduction Nicholas Baker-Brian and Shaun Tougher -- Julian the writer and his audience / Susanna Elm -- Reading between the lines : ; Julian's First Panegyric on Constantius II / Shaun Tougher -- 'But I digress...' : ; rhetoric and propaganda in Julian's second oration to Constantius / Hal Drake -- Is there an empress in the text? ; Julian's Speech of thanks to Eusebia / Liz James -- Julian's Consolation to himself on the departure of the excellent Salutius : ; rhetoric and philosophy in the fourth centurry / Josef Lössl -- The tyrant's mask? ; Images of good and bad rule in Julian's Letter to the Athenians / Mark Humphries -- Julian's Letter to Themistius -- and Themistius' response? / John W. Watt -- The emperor's shadow : ; Julian in his correspondence / Michael Trapp -- Julian the lawgiver / Jill Harries -- Words and deeds : ; Julian in the epigraphic record / Benet Salway -- Julian and his coinage : ; a very Constantinian prince / Fernando López Sánchez -- Roman authority, imperial authoriality, and Julian's artistic program / Eric R. Varner -- Julian's Hymn to the mother of the gods : ; the revival and justification of traditional religion / J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz -- Julian's Hymn to King Helios : ; the economical use of complex Neoplatonic concepts / Andrew Smtih -- The forging of an Hellenic orthodoxy : ; Julian's speeches against the cynics / Arnaldo Marcone -- The Christian context of Julian's Against the Galileans / David Hunt -- The politics of virtue in Julian's Misopogon / Nicholas Baker-Brian -- The Caesars of Julian the Apostate in translation and reception, 1580-ca -- 1800 / Rowland SmithAfterword: studying Julian the author / Jacqueline Long
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