Voting at the U.S. Constitutional Convention

2019 ◽  
pp. 780-796
Author(s):  
Keith L. Dougherty
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Choice Perspective ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

This chapter describes how the public-choice perspective has provided new insights into the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787. It reviews articles on the impact of the rules of the Convention, attempts to infer delegate votes, and reviews how public choice has helped us understand the adoption of various clauses in the Constitution and studies of the Beard thesis.

Federalism

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-93
Author(s):  
Jaroslaw Kantorowicz
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Public Choice ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Explanatory Variable ◽  
Complex Form ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Current State ◽  
Public Choice Perspective

Federalism is a governance structure that enables the aggregation of mass areas under one government. Federalism is a more complex form of governance than a unitary system. Under a federal structure of government, the activities are constitutionally divided (or shared) between constituent governments and a central government, implying a permanent coexistence and bargaining between participating governments and the center or among participating governments themselves. This chapter delineates the current state of knowledge regarding federalism and its twin concept of decentralization from the public-choice perspective. First, the chapter looks at federalism as an explanatory variable by examining how it shapes various outcomes ranging from economic growth to incidence of terrorism. Second, it deals with endogenous federalism and thus factors that explain how it emerges, survives, and changes. In the last part, the chapter summarizes several potential avenues for future research on federalism.

Enshrining a Constitutional Privilege

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda L. Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Public Safety ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Habeas Corpus ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
The Public ◽  
National Courts ◽  
Suspension Model ◽  
First Time ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. Constitution that emerged from the Constitutional Convention in 1787 created a stronger central government than had existed under the Articles of Confederation and for the first time established national courts. It also included the Suspension Clause, which provided: “The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.” As explored in this chapter, a wealth of evidence from the Founding period demonstrates that in the Suspension Clause, the Founding generation sought to constitutionalize the protections associated with the seventh section of the English Habeas Corpus Act and import the English suspension model, while also severely limiting the circumstances when the suspension power could be invoked.

Public Choice, Public Administration, and Self-Governance

2019 ◽  
pp. 101-121
Author(s):  
Paul Dragos Aligica ◽  
Peter J. Boettke ◽  
Vlad Tarko
Keyword(s):  
Public Choice ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Reference Point ◽  
Process Theory ◽  
Paradigm Change ◽  
Knowledge Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Initial Effect ◽  
Public Choice Perspective

Chapter 5 illuminates the specific nature of the synthesis attempted by the Ostroms’ and their associates and discusses the successes as well as the failures of their endeavors. Their effort to promote the public choice perspective in public administration, and the public administration perspective in public choice and to advance on that basis a paradigm change (from “bureaucratic public administration” to “democratic public administration”) is presented as a reference point, a model and case study entailing several lessons about the nature and limits of such endeavors. The chapter also builds upon the work of Michael Spicer, a remarkable author who has kept alive this type of approach in the field of public administration by combining public choice and knowledge process theory, long after the initial effect of the Ostroms’ efforts faded.

The Shock of the “New World”

Super Bomb ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 18-39
Author(s):  
Ken Young ◽  
Warner R. Schilling
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
Public Domain ◽  
Fissionable Material ◽  
Nuclear Threat ◽  
Atomic Weapons ◽  
The Public ◽  
Bomb Test ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

This chapter is an account of the impact on U.S. thinking and policy of the first Soviet atomic bomb test. It ended the U.S. monopoly of atomic weapons—a development that some had foreseen and others had discounted as a possibility. An atomic Russia triggered fears of a “bolt from the blue” assault on U.S. cities. One reaction was to seek to prioritize U.S. air defenses. Another was to confirm the program agreed to that summer to accelerate the production of fissionable material for atomic bombs. The surge of anxiety also brought hitherto obscure speculations about thermonuclear physics into the public domain. It seemed apparent to some that the Soviet nuclear threat should be countered not by a multiplication of atomic bombs but by an American “superbomb.”

The Performance Rewards of Human Capital Development in the Federal Government

2021 ◽  
pp. 009102602110398
Author(s):  
Andrew Wesemann
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Human Capital Development ◽  
Managerial Practices ◽  
The Public ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Dynamic Relationship ◽  
Econometric Analyses ◽  
Capital Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Human capital is one of the most vital assets an organization possesses. Research has demonstrated that human capital is directly related to performance. Thus, there is a clear incentive for organizations to grow their human capital levels. Not surprisingly, then, organizations have created and employed a wide variety of managerial practices focused on further developing human capital within their employees. Yet even as the U.S. government faces forthcoming human capital shortages due to the ongoing retirements of a large segment of its workforce, empirical research investigating the impact of commonly used human capital development practices on performance in the public sector is scarce. Therefore, to gain a deeper understanding of this dynamic relationship, using U.S. federal personnel data, this study analyzes the impact of human capital development practices on agency performance. The results of longitudinal econometric analyses suggest that human capital development practices have positive effects on agency performance.

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