Men and Women of the Corporation

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Resena de la obra de Don A. Dillman, Jolene D. Smyth y Leah Melani Christian: Internet, Phone, Mail and Mixed-Mode Surveys. The Tailored Design Method. New Jersey: John Wiley and Sons

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Internet, phone, mail and mixed-mode surveys: the tailored design method: reseña

This article reviews the concept of policy entrepreneurship and its use in explaining policy change. Although the activities of policy entrepreneurs have received close attention in several studies, the concept of policy entrepreneurship is yet to be broadly integrated within analyses of policy change. To facilitate more integration of the concept, we here show how policy entrepreneurship can be understood within more encompassing theorizations of policy change: incrementalism, policy streams, institutionalism, punctuated equilibrium, and advocacy coalitions. Recent applications of policy entrepreneurship as a key explanation of policy change are presented as models for future work. Room exists for further conceptual development and empirical testing concerning policy entrepreneurship. Such work could be undertaken in studies of contemporary and historical policy change. Scholars of public policy often seek to explain how particular policy ideas catch on. The dynamics of policy change have been theorized and explored empirically from a range of perspectives during the past few decades. In these investigations, the role played by specific advocates of policy change has been frequently noted. Highly motivated individuals or small teams can do much to draw attention to policy problems, present innovative policy solutions, build coalitions of supporters, and secure legislative action. Of course, no political activity or policy initiative can go anywhere without many actors getting involved. The question then arises: By what means can advocates of policy change come to have broad influence? Several policy scholars have argued that such advocates achieve success because they exhibit a high degree of entrepreneurial flare. According to this line of argument, by closely observing the practices of advocates of policy change, we can come to appreciate how they perform a function in the policy process equivalent to entrepreneurs in the business context. Following an emerging convention, we here define such advocates of policy change as policy entrepreneurs. This article foregrounds policy entrepreneurship as an explanation of policy change. While the activities of policy entrepreneurs have received close attention in several studies (Crowley, 2003; Kingdon, 1984/1995; Mintrom, 2000; Roberts & King, 1991; Weissert, 1991), the concept of policy entrepreneurship is yet to be broadly integrated within studies of policy change. We contend that new applica

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Policy Entrepreneurship and Policy Change

Political Character of Adolescence

According to Schlesinger's ambition theory, legislators seeking higher office behave differently from their less ambitious colleagues. In this note we examine Schlesinger's proposition that political ambition affects legislators' behavior. In the process, we argue that Schlesinger's typology of political ambition should be expanded to include intrainstitutional ambition--the members' desire for leadership positions within their present institution. Using data on U.S. House members we conclude that intrainstitutional ambition is distinct from both progressive and static ambition with each type of ambition exhibiting unique effects on various measures of legislative behavior.

Political Ambition's Effect on Legislative Behavior: Schlesinger's Typology Reconsidered and Revisited

While elections are essential to a democracy, it is commonly believed that the desire to secure reelection causes legislators to engage in many undesirable activities. In this note, by comparing the behavior of U.S. representatives who have chosen to run for reelection with those representatives who have decided not to do so, we provide evidence of the precise activities induced by electoral concerns. We find that elections cause members to go back to the district more often, to employ more staff assistants, to attend to roll-call voting more fastidiously, and to be more legislatively active. While these activities are no doubt consistent with the wishes of most constituents, the desire for reelection also encourage members to introduce what is apparently frivolous legislation on topics of little familiarity to the member. Those members who are not running for reelection, on the other hand, are more likely to have a successful and tightly focused legislative agenda.

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Unfastening the Electoral Connection: The Behavior of U.S. Representatives when Reelection Is No Longer a Factor

Internet surveys of the general population have been growing in use over the last few years because they are less expensive, faster, and greener than most other survey modes. However, they have been used less frequently to survey elites, and little is known about the representativeness of their results. This article helps fill that void by using an experiment where half of a sample of state legislators are given an Internet survey and half a mail survey, and then the response rate, representativeness of respondents, and similarity of responses are compared. The results indicate that mail and Internet surveys generate fairly representative samples, albeit with few biases, and similar responses; however, mail surveys generate a significantly higher response rate than Internet surveys. The implications of these findings are discussed.

Old versus New: The Comparative Efficiency of Mail and Internet Surveys of State Legislators

Efforts to explain the underrepresentation of women in Congress, as well as other institutions, have failed to detect significant gender differences in the availability of campaign resources. Thus ...

Rebekah Herrick

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Political Ambition's Effect on Legislative Behavior: Schlesinger's Typology Reconsidered and Revisited

Unfastening the Electoral Connection: The Behavior of U.S. Representatives when Reelection Is No Longer a Factor

Old versus New: The Comparative Efficiency of Mail and Internet Surveys of State Legislators

Is There a Gender Gap in the Value of Campaign Resources

Is There Life after Congress? Patterns and Determinants of Post-Congressional Careers