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Rosenthal, Howard Lewis was born on March 4, 1939 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Arnold Sidney R. and Elinor (Kaufman) (Rosenthal) Lewis.
(Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal have analyzed 16 mill...)
Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal have analyzed 16 million individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since the two Houses of Congress began recording votes in 1789. By tracing the voting patterns of Congress throughout the country's history, Poole and Rosenthal find that, despite a wide array of issues facing legislators, over 80% of a legislator's voting decisions can be attributed to a consistent ideological position ranging from ultraconservatism to ultraliberalism. The authors utilize roll call voting as a framework for a novel interpretation of important episodes in American political and economic history. Using a simple geometric model of voting, Congress demonstrates that roll call voting has a very simple structure and that, for most of American history, roll call voting patterns have maintained a core stability based on two great issues: the extent of government regulation of, and intervention in, the economy; and race. With the exception of the Civil War period, the major political parties have been organized around the issue of government intervention in the economy. Although political parties are the critical element in promoting stable voting alignments, these stable patterns are more than just the result of party alliances. Not only do new stable patterns of voting precede the emergence of new parties, there are also very important distinctions within parties. Race, the second great source of stable voting patterns, has almost always divided the two major parties internally and, in the post World War II era, has split the Democratic party along North-South lines leading to a three-party system. Congress documents the history of race-related issues in Congress and how race has an indirect effect on many other issues such as minimum wages and food stamps. Congress also examines alternative models of roll call voting and finds them lacking. In several detailed case studies, the authors demonstrate that constituency interest or pocket-book voting models fail to account for voting on issues such as minimum wages, strip mining, food stamps, and railroad regulation. Because of its scope and controversial findings which challenge established political and economic models used to explain Congressional behavior, Congress will be essential reading for political scientists, economists, and historians.
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The European Union faces difficult challenges: to go on with further enlargement; to reconcile radically different views on the appropriate scope and depth of integration; and to close the democratic deficit and revive public support for the Union. Written by a distinguished team of academics from six countries to inform public opinion before the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference, CEPR's sixth Monitoring European Integration Report argues for significant economic, political and legal reforms of the Union to meet these challenges. Flexible Integration is a model of reform designed to overcome the current stalemate between federalists and anti-federalists. It introduces more flexibility to accommodate the heterogeneous interests in Europe without risking the gains achieved through past integration. Flexible integration combines firm commitment by all members to a common supranational common base - including a well-defined set of competences related to the Single Market - with optional integration in other areas through open partnerships. Within these ramifications, the report discusses a number of specific reforms, including: how to introduce a hierarchy of European Law, making the Union's legal structure more flexible and transparent; how to improve enforcement of the Single Market, realising the vision underlying the four freedoms; how to achieve macroeconomic coordination without the tarnished exchange rate mechanism, while accommodating the different views on the single currency; and how to make political decision-making more efficient and legitimate, representing and balancing different European interests and making decision-makers more directly accountable to the citizens of Europe.
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( In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal ...)
In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes in 1789. By tracing the voting patterns of Congress throughout the country's history, the authors find that, despite a wide array of issues facing legislators, over 81 percent of their voting decisions can be attributed to a consistent ideological position ranging from ultraconservatism to ultraliberalism. In their classic 1997 volume, Congress: A Political Economic History of Roll Call Voting, roll call voting became the framework for a novel interpretation of important episodes in American political and economic history. Congress demonstrated that roll call voting has a very simple structure and that, for most of American history, roll call voting patterns have maintained a core stability based on two great issues: the extent of government regulation of, and intervention in, the economy; and race. In this new, paperback volume, the authors include nineteen years of additional data, bringing in the period from 1986 through 2004.
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(This book explores how the political process in the Unite...)
This book explores how the political process in the United States influences the economy and how economic conditions influence electoral results. It explains how the interaction between the President and Congress lead to the formulation of macroeconomic policy and how the American voters achieve moderation by balancing the two institutions. Fluctuations in economic growth are shown to depend on the results of elections and, conversely, electoral results to depend on the state of the economy. The final chapter of the book establishes striking similarities between the American political economy and other industrial democracies.
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( The idea of America as politically polarized--that ther...)
The idea of America as politically polarized--that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states--has become a cliché. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing polarization in recent decades has been closely accompanied by fundamental social and economic changes--most notably, a parallel rise in income inequality. In Polarized America, Nolan McCarty, Keith Poole, and Howard Rosenthal examine the relationships of polarization, wealth disparity, immigration, and other forces, characterizing it as a dance of give and take and back and forth causality.Using NOMINATE (a quantitative procedure that, like interest group ratings, scores politicians on the basis of their roll call voting records) to measure polarization in Congress and public opinion, census data and Federal Election Commission finance records to measure polarization among the public, the authors find that polarization and income inequality fell in tandem from 1913 to 1957 and rose together dramatically from 1977 on; they trace a parallel rise in immigration beginning in the 1970s. They show that Republicans have moved right, away from redistributive policies that would reduce income inequality. Immigration, meanwhile, has facilitated the move to the right: non-citizens, a larger share of the population and disproportionately poor, cannot vote; thus there is less political pressure from the bottom for redistribution than there is from the top against it. In "the choreography of American politics" inequality feeds directly into political polarization, and polarization in turn creates policies that further increase inequality.
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(Ordinal data can be rank ordered but not assumed to have ...)
Ordinal data can be rank ordered but not assumed to have equal distances between categories. Using support by judges for civil rights measures and bussing as the primary example, this paper indicates how such data can best be analyzed.
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Rosenthal, Howard Lewis was born on March 4, 1939 in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Arnold Sidney R. and Elinor (Kaufman) (Rosenthal) Lewis.
Bachelor of Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1960; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1964.
Assistant professor political science University California-Irvine, 1965-1966. Assistant professor and associate professor political science Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1966-1971, professor, 1971-1993. Roger Williams Straus professor social science Princeton U,, New Jersey, 1993—2005.
Professor political science New York University, since 2005. Professor emeritus Princeton University, since 2005. Visiting professor Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1968-1969, University California, San Diego, 1976-1977, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1989-1990, University Paris I, 1990, California Institute of Technology, 2010.
Walras-Pareto lecturer University Lausanne, Switzerland, 1996. Visiting graduate lecturer Fondation National des Sciences Politiques, Paris, 1972-1973. Distinguished visiting professor Brown University, 2003-2005.
(The European Union faces difficult challenges: to go on w...)
( In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal ...)
( The idea of America as politically polarized--that ther...)
(This book explores how the political process in the Unite...)
(Ordinal data can be rank ordered but not assumed to have ...)
(Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal have analyzed 16 mill...)
Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Public Choice Society (Duncan Black award 1979), American Political Science Association (CQ Press award 1985), Society Political Methodology (Statis Software award 2009).
Married Annie Regine Lunel, June 30, 1960 (divorced November, 1967). Children: Illia Rebecca, Jean Laurent. Married Margherita Guastoni Spampinato, February 6, 1968.
1 son, Gil Guastoni.