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- The Dynamics of Top-Down Organizational Change: Donald Rumsfeld's Campaign to Transform the US Defense Department
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Strategic choices: Australia, China and the US in Asia
20 August 2010
In the latest edition of the Asialink Essays Geoffrey Garrett discusses the important strategic choices facing the Australian government in the Asia-Pacific Century. Read Essay
The Dynamics of Top-Down Organizational Change: Donald Rumsfeld's Campaign to Transform the US Defense Department
4 August 2010
by Timothy Came and Colin Campbell
Drawing upon interviews with 69 defense policymakers and close observers, this Governance article develops an extrapolation-oriented case study of Donald Rumsfeld's campaign to transform the development of the U.S. Defense Department's future capabilities. This reform effort, launched by President George W. Bush during his first presidential campaign, encountered difficulties in developing and promoting the content of the proposed transformation and in executing it. Following Eugene Bardach's work on institutional craftsmanship and Michael Barzelay's efforts to further develop Bardach's methodology for extrapolation-oriented case studies, the article explores the sources of the transformation campaign's difficulties, identifying several mechanisms linking common process context factors, exacerbated by process design features, to these negative outcomes. It also offers suggestions for rendering the design of change campaigns more robust to these vulnerabilities. Read Article
Political fortunes: On finance and its regulation
15 July 2010
by Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, Thomas Romer and Howard Rosenthal
This article co-authored by US Studies Centre Visiting Fellow Thomas Romer will appear in an upcoming issue of Daedalus and looks at the political dimensions of the 2008 financial crisis. Read Article
Negotiating the promised land: The end of innocence?
22 June 2010
This essay in the Israel Studies Forum (Vol. 25 Iss. 1) focuses on three broad issues crucial to a successful Arab-Israeli negotiated outcome including strong leadership, excellent timing, and proper management of the US-Israeli relationship. The essay reviews three recent books by former US policymakers: Martin Indyk’s Innocent Abroad, Daniel Kurtzer and Scott Lasensky’s Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace, and Aaron David Miller’s The Much Too Promised Land. Read Article
The G2 in the G-20: China, the United States and the World after the Global Financial Crisis
1 February 2010
The post-global financial crisis world will be increasingly dominated by China and the United States. What the de facto G-2 do, together, independently or in conflict, will increasingly define the global bounds of possible. Both countries want to embed their bilateral diplomacy in the multilateralism of the G-20. The problem for the emergent G-2 in G-20 global architecture is that economic relations between China and the US will be increasingly difficult to manage. Read Article
Empowerment and poverty
29 January 2010
My subject is the way Peter Bachrach addressed the question of poverty. But given that I was his student and research assistant and that I am a political scientist largely because of him, it is impossible to resist a few words about the experience of being in his classrooms. Peter was an inspiring teacher of politics. The substantive content of his courses was legendary, and he possessed an extraordinary capacity to elicit participation from classes of pre-feminists at our well-bred women's college. I know this cost him. Peter had an extra shirt in his Bryn Mawr office so that he could change out of the one he had sweated through during the considerable exertions of getting us to talk, let alone think. Read Article
When the cure appears worse than the illness: America reacts to England’s plaintiff-friendly defamation laws
1 December 2009
Entrepreneurship as Economic Detour? Client Segregation by Race and Class and the Black-White Earnings Gap Among Physicians
13 November 2009
Since the Civil Rights Movement, greater numbers of African Americans have moved into professional work but continue to have lower earnings than their White counterparts. One possible explanation for this difference is that Black professionals have lower earnings because they serve larger percentages of Blacks in their practices. However, little research has documented this hypothesized effect, particularly while controlling for specialization and other important earnings-relevant characteristics. Read Article
Conceptualizing Legitimacy, Measuring Legitimating Beliefs
1 November 2009
by Professor Margaret Levi, Audrey Sachs and Tom Tyler
Legitimacy is a concept meant to capture the beliefs that bolster willing obedience. The authors model legitimacy as a sense of obligation or willingness to obey authorities (value-based legitimacy) that then translates into actual compliance with governmental regulations and laws (behavioral legitimacy). Read Article
Legitimating Beliefs: Sources and Indicators
15 October 2009
by Professor Margaret Levi and Audrey Sachs
The more a government is effective and fair, the more legitimacy that government is likely to attain, and the more it will possess the potential to elicit compliance without excessive monitoring or punitive action. We explore this proposition using contemporary survey data from sub-Saharan Africa. In particular, we are interested in the conditions that promote popular legitimating beliefs that provide support for governments that are attempting to serve their entire populations competently and in a manner that is relatively impartial and equitable. This article provides empirical support for a long hypothesized link between the extent of government effectiveness, procedural justice, and citizens' willingness to defer to governmental tax authority. The sample, drawn from a continuum of developing societies in Africa, allows us to analyze the impact of variations in government effectiveness and citizen perceptions of fairness on the sense of obligation to comply with the tax authorities, our indicator for legitimating beliefs. Read Article
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