William G. Howell

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William G. Howell

Political Science

#1351

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#1627

Historical Rank

#692

USA Rank

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Political Science

William G. Howell's Degrees

PhD Political Science Stanford University
Masters Political Science Stanford University
Bachelors Political Science University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, William G. Howell is an American political scientist and author. He is the Sydney Stein Professor in American Politics at Chicago Harris and a professor in the Department of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. He has written widely on separation-of-powers issues and American political institutions, especially the presidency.

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William G. Howell's Published Works

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The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (2003) (369)
The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending (2010) (304)
Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action (2003) (302)
The Presidential Power of Unilateral Action (1999) (288)
Accountability and Local Elections: Rethinking Retrospective Voting (2007) (217)
Divided Government and the Legislative Productivity of Congress, 1945-94 (2000) (216)
School Vouchers and Academic Performance: Results from Three Randomized Field Trials (2002) (207)
Unilateral Action and Presidential Power: A Theory (1999) (182)
While Dangers Gather: Congressional Checks on Presidential War Powers (2007) (178)
Toward a Broader Understanding of Presidential Power: A Reevaluation of the Two Presidencies Thesis (2008) (174)
Presidents, Congress, and the Use of Force (2005) (147)
School Choice in New York City After Three Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program (2002) (135)
Unilateral Powers: A Brief Overview (2005) (118)
After Enactment: The Lives and Deaths of Federal Programs (2010) (104)
Agencies by Presidential Design (2002) (101)
Dynamic selection effects in means-tested, urban school voucher programs (2004) (76)
Lessons from the Cleveland Scholarship Program. (1997) (74)
An Evaluation of the Cleveland Voucher Program after Two Years. (1999) (67)
The Oxford handbook of the American presidency (2009) (67)
While Dangers Gather (2017) (62)
Switching Schools? A Closer Look at Parents' Initial Interest in and Knowledge About the Choice Provisions of No Child Left Behind (2006) (59)
An Evaluation of the New York City School Choice Scholarships Program: The First Year. (1998) (59)
Results of President Obama's Race to the Top. (2015) (48)
Besieged: School Boards and the Future of Education Politics (2005) (46)
Power without persuasion (2003) (46)
School Choice in New York City After Two Years: An Evaluation of the School Choice Scholarships Program. Interim Report. Washington, DC: Mathematica Policy Research (2000) (45)
Presidential Prescriptions for State Policy: Obama's Race to the Top Initiative (2017) (44)
Thinking about the Presidency: The Primacy of Power (2013) (42)
Efficiency, Bias, and Classification Schemes (2004) (41)
The Education Gap (2002) (40)
The Last One Hundred Days (2005) (37)
School Choice in Washington, D.C.: An Evaluation after One Year. (2000) (37)
Uses of Theory in Randomized Field Trials (2004) (31)
The Wartime President: Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat (2013) (30)
Meeting of the Minds (2011) (29)
One Child at a Time. (2004) (29)
School Choice in Dayton, Ohio: An Evaluation After One Year (2000) (29)
The Education Gap: Vouchers and Urban Schools (revised edition) (2006) (26)
Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy (2020) (22)
What Americans Think about Their Schools: The 2007 Education Next-PEPG Survey (2007) (22)
When Congress Stops Wars (2007) (22)
Distributive Politics and Legislator Ideology (2016) (21)
An Evaluation of the Horizon Scholarship Program in the Edgewood Independent School District, San Antonio, Texas: The First Year. Mathematica Policy Research and Harvard University (1999) (19)
Efficiency, Bias, and Classification Schemes: Estimating Private-School Impacts on Test Scores in the New York City Voucher Experiment. (2003) (18)
Is the Price "Right"?. (2008) (15)
Voucher Research Controversy: New Looks at the New York City Evaluation. (2004) (15)
The 2008 Education Next-PEPG Survey of Public Opinion: Americans think less of their schools than of their police departments and post offices (2008) (14)
Initial Findings from an Evaluation of School Choice Programs in Washington, D. C. (1998) (14)
War, the Presidency, and Legislative Voting Behavior (2013) (13)
Presidential Power in War (2011) (13)
Educating the Public. (2009) (12)
Voting For The President: The Supreme Court During War (2014) (11)
The Public Weighs in on School Reform: Intense Controversies Do Not Alter Public Thinking, but Teachers Differ More Sharply than Ever. (2011) (11)
The Persuadable Public. (2009) (11)
Education Policy, Academic Research, and Public Opinion. AEI Future of American Education Project, Working Paper 2007-01. (2007) (10)
Political Scandal: A Theory (2020) (10)
The Career Beliefs of Homeless Veterans: Vocational Attitudes as Indicators of Employability (1997) (10)
The Politician's Province (2017) (10)
Interbranch Negotiations over Policies with Multiple Outcomes (2013) (9)
Matters of Life and Death: The Durability of Discretionary Programs 1970-2004 (2007) (9)
Latest Results from the New York City Voucher Experiment. (2003) (8)
Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency. By William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe. New York: Basic Books, 2016. (2016) (7)
Executive Absolutism: A Model (2020) (7)
Understanding American Politics and Government (2008) (7)
Political Conflict over Time (2020) (6)
Voucher Research Controversy (2004) (5)
War's Contributions to Presidential Power (2009) (5)
The Effect of School Vouchers on Student Achievement: A Response to Critics. Occasional Paper. (2000) (5)
Voucher Programs and the Effect of Ethnicity on Test Scores (2002) (5)
Information Fuels Support for School Reform. (2014) (5)
The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performanceby David E. Lewis (2010) (4)
America’s Crisis of Democracy (2021) (4)
Quantitative Approaches to Studying the Presidency (2009) (4)
Reform Agenda Gains Strength. (2013) (4)
Rethinking Public Appeals: Experimental Evidence on Presidential Performances (2020) (4)
The Persuadable Public: The 2009 Education Next-PEPG Survey Asks If Information Changes Minds about School Reform (2009) (4)
Dog Eats AFT Homework (2004) (4)
The Behavioral Consequences of Public Appeals: Evidence on Campaign Fundraising from the 2018 Congressional Elections (2020) (4)
The Wartime President: Insights, Lessons, and Opportunities for Continued Investigation (2012) (4)
Exploring Explanations for Ethnic Differences in Voucher Impacts on Student Test Scores. (2001) (3)
Retrospective Voting in Single Function Elections: School Boards, Test Scores, and Incumbents' Electoral Fortunes (2003) (3)
The Last 100 Days (2005) (3)
What Happens to Low-Income New York Students When They Move From Public to Private Schools (2000) (3)
Bending so as Not to Break: What the Bush Presidency Reveals about the Politics of Unilateral Action (2007) (3)
Executives—The American Presidency (2008) (3)
Financial Incentives in Vertical Diffusion: The Variable Effects of Obama’s Race to the Top Initiative on State Policy Making (2020) (3)
Executive Absolutism: The Dynamics of Authority Acquisition in a System of Separated Powers (2019) (3)
School Choice in New York City (1999) (2)
Making a President: Performance, Public Opinion, and the (Temporary) Transmutation of Donald J. Trump (2017) (2)
Impact of School Voucher Research (2002) (2)
Congress, in Theory: Subjecting Canonical Models of Distributive Politics to Basic (but Long Overdue) Empirical Tests (2008) (2)
Is the Price Right? Probing American's Knowledge of School Spending (2008) (2)
Data Vacuum: Only Larger Voucher Experiments Will Yield Answers. (Essay Review) (2002) (2)
One Child at a Time: An Inside Look at One City's Efforts to Offer Families the Opportunities Promised by No Child Left Behind (2004) (1)
By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Actionby Phillip J. Cooper (2003) (1)
Count on Congress (2013) (1)
Chapter 2. Bearing Witness (2015) (1)
Chapter 4. Responding to “Opportunities” to Use Military Force (with Douglas L. Kriner) (2007) (1)
Raising Black Achievement: Vouchers in New York, Dayton, and D.C. (2001) (1)
2. A Formal Representation of Unilateral Action (2003) (0)
The Policy Priority Model (2013) (0)
Political Scandal : A Theory 1 (2018) (0)
Case Studies II: Challenges (2013) (0)
Reform Agenda Gains Strength: The 2012 EdNext-PEPG Survey Finds Hispanics Give Schools a Higher Grade Than Others Do (2013) (0)
Pay : Self Interest vs . Symbolic Politics (2010) (0)
Updating amidst Disagreement: New Experimental Evidence on Partisan Cues (2023) (0)
Chapter 7. The Media and Public Opinion (2007) (0)
Case Studies I: Illustrations (2013) (0)
5. Congressional Constraints on Presidential Power (2003) (0)
Spending in War and in Peace (2013) (0)
Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II. By Nancy Beck Young (Lawrence, University Press of Kansas, 2013) 376 pp. $39.95 (2013) (0)
1. Presidential Power in the Modern Era (2003) (0)
Chapter 3. Trends in Military Deployments (2007) (0)
Public Opinion on Merit Pay: Self Interest vs. Symbolic Politics. Program on Education Policy and Governance Working Papers Series. PEPG 10-05. (2010) (0)
Appendix 4. Federal Court Challenges to Executive Orders (2003) (0)
Chapter 1. Possibilities of Congressional Influence (2007) (0)
Appendix C. Table Relating to Chapter 6 (2007) (0)
Advising the President: Attorney General Robert H. Jackson and Franklin D. Roosevelt (2019) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
Chapter 5. Misguided Entreaties (2015) (0)
Appendix B. Text and Tables Relating to Chapter 4 (2007) (0)
Chapter 6. What Failure Looks Like (2015) (0)
Elusive Victories: The American Presidency at War by Andrew Polsky. New York, Oxford University Press, 2012. 456 pp. $29.95. (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (2003) (0)
6. The Institutional Foundations of Judicial Deference (2003) (0)
Appendix A. Tables Relating to Chapter 3 (2007) (0)
War and the American Presidency (2013) (0)
Response to Daniel W. Drezner’s Review of Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy (2021) (0)
Appendix 1. Coding of Executive Orders (2003) (0)
Study guide to accompany Understanding American politics and government (2009) (0)
Online Appendix (2020) (0)
Chapter 3. Constitutional Foundations (2015) (0)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: An Argument on Behalf of a Stronger U.S. Presidency (2014) (0)
The Toddler in Chief: What Donald Trump Teaches Us about the Modern Presidency. By Daniel W. Drezner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. 272p. $15.00 paper. (2021) (0)
Chapter 6. Congress and the Media (with Douglas L. Kriner) (2007) (0)
Chapter 7. Limits (2015) (0)
North America (2005) (0)
Preface to the Paperback Edition (2015) (0)
Harry Brighouse (2000) School Choice and Social Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 222 pp., $29.95 (2001) (0)
Appendix: Article II of the U.S. Constitution (2015) (0)
Accountability Lost: Student Learning Is Seldom a Factor in School Board Elections (2008) (0)
Chapter 5. Studies in Domestic Politics and the Use of Force (2007) (0)
4. Theory Testing (2003) (0)
Appendix 2. Proofs of Propositions in the Unilateral Politics Model (2003) (0)
Treaty Politics and the Rise of Executive Agreements: International Commitments in a System of Shared Powers . By Glen S. Krutz and Jeffrey S. Peake. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. 264p. $75.00 cloth, $28.95 paper. (2011) (0)
Chapter 4. Contrasting Conceptions of Executive Leadership (2015) (0)
Chapter 1. On Being President (2015) (0)
Chapter 8. Conclusion (2007) (0)
Lessons From the Cleveland Scholarship Program Does school choice work ? (2012) (0)
A Word of Thanks to George Edwards (2017) (0)
Gray Lady Wheezing: The AFT Hoodwinks the "Times". (2005) (0)
Political Responsiveness Writ Large or Small (2006) (0)
Appendix 3. Identifying Congressional Challenges to Executive Orders (2003) (0)
Why We Fight: Congress and the Politics of World War II by Nancy Beck Young (review) (2013) (0)
Appendix D. Table Relating to Chapter 7 (2007) (0)
During wartime, Congress is more willing to defer to the president on matters both foreign and domestic (2013) (0)
Data Vacuum (2002) (0)
3. Bridge Building (2003) (0)
Summaries, Speculations, and Extensions (2013) (0)
Donald Trump’s presidency will be a stress-test for American politics (2016) (0)
Chapter 2. Conditions that Abet Congressional Influence (2007) (0)
The Model's Predictions about Modern U.S. Wars (2013) (0)
Voting in War and in Peace (2013) (0)

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