The Dynamics of Political Control of the Bureaucracy
- B. Wood, R. Waterman
- Political ScienceAmerican Political Science Review
- 1 September 1991
A new paradigm of political-bureaucratic relations emerged through the 1980s holding that U.S. democratic institutions continuously shape nonelective public bureaucracies. Several empirical studies…
Who Influences Whom? The President, Congress, and the Media
- George C. Edwards, B. Wood
- Political ScienceAmerican Political Science Review
- 1 June 1999
Influencing the policy agenda has long been viewed as one of the most important sources of political power. For decades, scholars have maintained that the president has the most significant role in…
Issue Definition, Information Processing, and the Politics of Global Warming
- B. Wood, A. Vedlitz
- Computer Science
- 1 July 2007
A microlevel theory of issue definition rooted in how individuals process information is proposed, which theorize that people process information about policy issues through a filter that emphasizes past assessments, ideology, background, social cues, and the continuing intrusion of new information.
The Dynamics of Foreign Policy Agenda Setting
Theoretical and empirical work on public policy agenda setting has ignored foreign policy. We develop a theory of foreign policy agenda setting and test the implications using time-series vector…
Disentangling Patterns of State Debt Financing
- James C. Clingermayer, B. Wood
- EconomicsAmerican Political Science Review
- 1 March 1995
We examine the determinants of change in state government indebtedness from 1961 through 1989 using a pooled time series cross-sectional analysis. The analysis reveals that debt is primarily a…
Bureaucratic Dynamics: The Role Of Bureaucracy In A Democracy
- B. Wood, R. Waterman
- Political Science
- 15 August 1994
Toward a more dynamic conception of bureaucracy scholarly thinking and research on the bureaucracy the dynamics of political control of the bureaucracy the dynamics of political-bureaucratic…
Principals, Bureaucrats, and Responsiveness in Clean Air Enforcements
- B. Wood
- Political ScienceAmerican Political Science Review
- 1 March 1988
Examining the effect of the Reagan presidency on EPA outputs for clean air, Box-Tiao models are constructed to explain shifts in the vigor of air pollution enforcements between 1977 and 1985 and show that the influence of elected institutions is limited.
Controlling the IRS: Principals, Principles, and Public Administration
- John T. Scholz, B. Wood
- Political Science, Economics
- 1998
Theory: The behavior of government agencies reflects democratic principles of equal treatment and efficiency as well as the more-studied principle of responsiveness to elected political principals.…
Does Politics Make a Difference at the EEOC
- B. Wood
- Political Science
- 1 May 1990
Stability and responsiveness are features of bureaucracy that affect both policy success and policy consistency with dynamic public values. This article explores the stability and responsiveness of a…
The Marginal and Time-Varying Effect of Public Approval on Presidential Success in Congress
- J. R. Bond, R. Fleisher, B. Wood
- SociologyJournal of Politics
- 1 February 2003
We analyze the relationship between public approval and presidential success in Congress using time-varying parameter regression methods. Cues from constituency, ideology, and party dominate…
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