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Present	Professor, Iowa State University ‐ Department of Political Science
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Ames, IA 50011-1054

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Peer-Reviewed Articles (13)

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Graduate Training, Current Affiliation and Publishing Books in Political Science

PS: Political Science & Politics (2002)

Tom W. Rice, James M. McCormick and Benjamin D. Bergmann

Scores of studies have measured the quality of political science departments. Generally speaking, these studies have taken two forms. Many ...

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Graduate Training and Research Productivity in the 1990s: A Look ...

PS: Political Science & Politics (2001)

James M. McCormick and Tom W. Rice

The relationship between reputational rankings of political science departments and their scholarly productivity remains a source of discussion and controversy. ...

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Politics and Bipartisanship at the Water's Edge: A Note ...

Polity (1997)

James M. McCormick, Eugene R. Wittkopf and David M. Danna

This research extends an earlier study of the bipartisan and political perspectives for evaluating congressional-executive relations on foreign policy to ...

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Human Rights Violations, Umbrella Concepts, and Empirical Analysis

World Politics (1997)

James M. McCormick and Neil J. Mitchell

Only in last decade or two have political scientists begun sys tematic, cross-national research on government violations of human rights. ...

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Healing the American Rift with New Zealand

Pacific Affairs (1995)

James M. McCormick

Since 1985, political and military relations between the United States and New Zealand have been ruptured over the issue of ...

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Assessing Clinton’s Foreign Policy at Midterm

Current History (1995)

James M. McCormick

Bill Clinton ran for president on the theme of change-change in domestic policy and change in foreign policy. With the ...

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The Cold War Consensus: Did It Exist?

Polity (1990)

Eugene R. Wittkopf and James M. McCormick

A bipartisan consensus about the means and ends of American foreign policy is generally thought to have been part of ...

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Bipartisanship, Partisanship, and Ideology in Congressional-Executive Foreign Policy Relations, 1947 ...

The Journal of Politics (1990)

James M. McCormick and Eugene R. Wittkopf

The question we posed at the outset is whether bipartisanship or politics hold as appropriate explanations of congressional-executive relations in ...

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Ideology and Senate Voting on the Panama Canal Treaties

Legislative Studies Quarterly (1983)

James M. McCormick and Michael Black

This research examines the relative utility of ideology (as compared to party affiliation, regionalism, election status, and presidential leadership) in ...

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Alternate Approaches to Evaluating International Organizations: Some Research Directions

Polity (1982)

James M. McCormick

The analysis of international organizations and their effect on the international system have increased markedly in recent years. A number ...

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Graduate Training and Productivity: A Look at Who Publishes

The Journal of Politics (1982)

James M. McCormick and E. Lee Bernick

In two recent studies, Morgan and Fitzgerald and Robey ranked American political science departments on the basis of their faculty's ...

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Intergovernmental Organizations and Foreign Policy Behavior: Some Empirical Findings

The American Political Science Association (1979)

James M. McCormick and Young W. Khil

In this study, we evaluate whether the increase in the number of intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) has resulted in their increased ...

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The Making of International Agreements: a Reappraisal of Congressional Involvement

The Journal of Politics (1978)

Loch Johnson and James M. McCormick

Although the constitution implies that the primary responsibility in the making of foreign policy resides in the Executive Branch, the ...

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Contribution to Book

Ethnic Interest Groups in American Foreign Policy

The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence (2012)

James M. McCormick

In March 2010, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs narrowly passed H. Res. 252 by a vote of 23-22 and ...

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Contribution to Book

The Obama Presidency: A Foreign Policy of Change?

Transforming America: Barack Obama in the White House (2011)

James M. McCormick

Barack Obama ran for the presidency on a policy of change-change in domestic policy and change in foreign policy. During ...

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Contribution to Book

The Foreign Policy of the Bush Administration: Terrorism and the ...

Ambition and Division: Legacies of the George W Bush Presidency (2009)

James M. McCormick

During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush announced that he would pursue a "distinctly American internationalism" in foreign policy ...

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Contribution to Book

The War on Terror and Contemporary U.S.-European Relations

America’s “War on Terrorism”: New Dimensions in U.S. Government and National Security (2008)

James M. McCormick

The Bush Administration's "WAR ON TERROR" and its implications for U.S.European relations often evoke contradictory views among Americans. On the ...

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Contribution to Book

“Foreign Policy Legacies of the Clinton Administration for American Administrations ...

The American Century? In Retrospect and Prospect (2002)

James M. McCormick

On the first day of the NATO air campaign against Serbian forces in Kosovo in March 1999, President Clinton addressed ...

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Contribution to Book

Interest Groups and the Media in Post-Cold War U.S ...

After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World (1998)

James M. McCormick

How successful are interest groups in shaping American foreign policy? How successful are the media in affecting foreign affairs? During ...

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Contribution to Book

The Domestic Politics of Contra Aid: Public Opinion, Congress, and ...

Public Opinion in U.S. Foreign Policy: The Controversy Over Contra Aid (1993)

Eugene R. Wittkopf and James M. McCormick

The domestic politics of contra aid during the Reagan administration is a story of both success and failure. It is ...

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Contribution to Book

Making and Measuring the International Event as a Unit of ...

International Events Interaction Analysis: Some Research Considerations (1972)

Edward E. Azar, Stanley H. Cohen, Thomas O. Jukam and James McCormick

In the last twenty years, the study of international politics has passedthrough a number of phases. These years have been ...

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Book

The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence

Political Science Books (2018)

James M. McCormick

The seventh edition of this leading reader for courses in American foreign policy offers students an up-to-date, highly accessible introduction ...

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Non-Peer Reviewed Articles (1)

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Can Social Norms Motivate Employee Conservation Efforts?

Economics Working Papers (2015)

Joel Morton, Peter F. Orazem, Tanya Rosenblatt, Carolyn Cutrona, et al.

A randomized experiment is used to test whether employees will take actions to lower short- and long-run electricity use when ...

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