- ...way.
- Systematic analysis regarding such actions is lacking.
Anecdotal evidence abounds. For examples from the 1992 presidential
election see James Gerstenzang, ``Santa Claus is an incumbent, states find
as Bush dips into his federal goody bag,'' Los Angeles Times (March
11, 1992): 13A; Jack Anderson and Michael Binstein, ``Chowing down in
`Porkland,''' Washington Post Aug. 24, 1992:12C; Brian Kelly,
``Pigging out at the White House,'' Washington Post Sept. 6,
1992:1C.
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- ...approach.
- Pfiffner (1988, 68-89) reviews the appointments procedures
used in recent administrations and notes the especially rigorous screening
procedures used by the Reagan and Bush administations.
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- ...1989:193ff).
- The
nonlinear appearance of 24#24 in equation (2) and the
heteroscedastic form of the disturbance distinguish our model from the ``Model
3'' specification discussed by Maddala (1983, 244-245).
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- ...1985-88.
- The counties in the analysis are 138 of the 139 counties
included in the 1986 ANES sample (one county was omitted due to missing
data).
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- ...term.
- The incumbent did not
run in 1988, but the Reagan administration went to great lengths to assist
Bush in his ``friendly takeover'' of the White House. Reagan traveled
extensively to campaign for Bush. Also, ``personnel changes in the cabinet
in 1988 were molded to fit Bush priorities.'' Reagan appointed members
``who were acceptable to Bush and whom he would keep on in his
Administration'' (Pfiffner 1990, 65).
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- ...members.
- Each committee dummy variable
equals one if any member of the delegation is a member of the committee in
the referent year; otherwise the variable equals zero. We used dummy
variables for the following committees: Agriculture; Appropriations; Armed
Services; Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs; Budget; Education and Labor;
Energy and Commerce; Government Operations; Interior and Insular Affairs;
Merchant Marine and Fisheries; Post Office and Civil Service; Public Works
and Transportation; Science, Space and Technology; Veterans Affairs; Ways
and Means. Committee data were compiled from Joint Committee on Printing
1983-87. Terms data were provided by Robert Stein.
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quasi-likelihood methods, using the glm function of S-PLUS
(Statistical Sciences 1991).
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- ...incomplete.
- Arnold acknowledges
the limited scope of his theory (1979, 19).
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