R. Kenneth Godwin

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Research Interests

Policy Evaluation       Interest Groups

  (Education, Environment, & Health Care Delivery)

Special Skills

Statistical Analysis           Spanish     

Professional Experience

2001-           Marshall A. Rauch Distinguished Professor of Public Policy, UNCC

2000-2001    Regents Professor of Political Science, University of North Texas (UNT)

1995-1999    Professor, Department of Political Science, UNT

1994-1995        Interim Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of North Texas

1990-1994    Professor & Chair, Department of Political Science, University of North Texas

1981-1990   Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Arizona

1978-1979    Rockefeller Environmental Fellow, Resources for the Future & Brookings Institution

1978-1980        Chair, Department of Political Science, Oregon State University

1975-1980    Associate Professor of Political Science, Oregon State University

1973-1974    Research Scientist, Battelle Memorial Institute, Seattle, Washington

1971-1973    Assistant Professor of Political Science, Oregon State University

Publications

Books:

School Choice Tradeoffs. Co-author with Frank Kemerer. Forthcoming, 2001. University of Texas Press.

Introduction to Politics: Reason, Reflection, and Analysis. 1996. Co-author with John Wahlke. Chicago: Harcourt Brace.

One Billion Dollars of Influence: The Direct Marketing of Politics.  Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1988.  (Finalist in 1989 for the best book published in public policy.)

New Issues in Water Policy.  Urbana, IL: Policy Studies Organization, 1985. Co-editor with Helen Ingram.

Public Policy and the Natural Environment. Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1985. Co‑editor with Helen Ingram.

Psyche and Demos: Individual Psychology and Population Issues. New York: Oxford, 1977. Co-author with Warren Miller.

Land Use Control: Evaluating Economic and Political Effects. Cambridge, MA: Ballinger, 1977. Co-author.

Comparative Policy Analysis. Editor.  Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1975.

Research in the Politics of Population. Lexington, Mass: Lexington Books, 1973, Co-editor..

Political Science in Population Studies. Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1972, Co-editor.  .

Attitudes and Behavior Related to Modernization. Monograph # 12, Carolina Population Center Series in Public Policy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971.

Recent Monographs & Research Reports

 A Comparison of School Choice Options (October,1998) Prepared for the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences. Co-author.

San Antonio School Choice Programs: Final Report.  (September ,1997). (Denton, TX: Center for the Study of Educational Reform, June, 1997). Co-author.

An Evaluation of the San Antonio CEO Private Scholarship Program.  (Denton, TX: Center for the Study of Educational Reform, June, 1997). Co-author.

An Evaluation of the SAISD Multilingual Program.  (Denton, TX: Center for the Study of Educational Reform, November 1996). Co-author.

LINEAMIENTOS PARA UNA ESTRATEGIA NACIONAL DE POBLACION (Washington, D.C.: Latin American and Caribbean Health and Nutrition Sustainability: Technical Report). 1994.

POLITICA NACIONAL DE POBLACION DE EL SALVADOR.  (Cairo, Egypt: Government of El Salvador). I wrote the sections concerning family planning service delivery and return migration. 1993.

Review of Nongovernmental Organization Effectiveness in Health Care Delivery in El Salvador.  Prepared for the Agency for International Development Mission in El Salvador. 1993.

Journal Articles:

 “The Implications of the 2000 Elections and Court decisions for Vouchers and Other Forms of School Choice,” Publius, Vol. 31, 2002 (Co-author with Wenda Sheard).

 “Are Public Schools More Effective than Private Schools in Teaching Toleration,” Phi Delta Kappa, forthcoming, March/April, 2001).  (Coauthor with Ausbrooks and Martinez)

“Liberalism and Parental Control of Education,” Review of Politics, summer 2000 (with Richard Ruderman).

 “Oral Health Assessment by Nursing Staff of Alzheimer’s Patients in a Long-term Care Facility,” Special Care in Dentistry, April, 1999 (with four co-authors from University of North Texas Health Science Center).

“Liberal Equity in Education: A Comparison of School Choice Options,” Social Science Quarterly, fall, 1998 (with Kemerer, Martinez, and Ruderman).  This is a controversy piece with responses from Janet Weiss (Michigan), Jeff Henig (George Washington) and John Coons (Berkeley law).

“Equity, Diversity, and Tolerance in Education,” Social Science Quarterly, fall, 1998 (with Kemerer, Martinez, and Ruderman). This is a response to the critiques of Weiss, Henig, and Coons.

"The Consequences of School Choice: Who Leaves and Who Stays in the Inner City," Social Science Quarterly, fall, 1995 (with Martinez, Kemerer & Perna).

"More on Consequences," Social Science Quarterly, fall, 1995. (with Martinez & Kemerer).  This was a response to three comments on the above article and was published in the same journal number.

"Charges for Merit Goods with External Economies," The Journal of Public Policy," 1992.

"Policy Formulation and Implementation in Less Industrialized Countries: A Comparative Analysis of Institutional Effects," Western Political Quarterly, June, 1992.

"Rent-Seeking and Political Institutions," Public Choice, 1990.

"The Structure, Content, and Use of Political Direct Mail," Polity, June, 1988.

"An Introduction to Water Policy Issues in the 1980s," Policy Studies Review, November, 1985 (with Ingram and Mann).

"Aggressive and Democratic Political Participation," Political Behavior, Fall, 1984 (with Muller).

"The Impact of Direct Mail on Political Institutions," Social Science Quarterly, Fall, 1984 (with  Mitchell).

"Benefits and Costs to Participation in Regional Intergovernmental Institutions," Environmental Management November, 1982 (with Goetze).

"Rational Models, Collective Goods, and Nonelectoral Political Behavior," Western Political Quarterly 35, June, 1982 (with Mitchell). 

"Rational Models and Original Objectives," Western Political Quarterly 35, June, 1982 (with Mitchell).

"Introducing the Enduring Questions of Politics: A Problem‑Solving Approach," Teaching Political Science, July, 1981.

"The Consequences of Large Monetary Incentives in Mail Surveys of Elites," Public Opinion Quarterly, Fall, 1979.

"Forcing Squares, Triangles, and Ellipses Into A Circular Paradigm: The Use of the Commons Dilemmas," Western Political Quarterly, Fall, 1979 (with Shepard). Reprinted by Resources for the Future in its Environment and Resources reprint series. Also reprinted under the title, "The Use of the Commons Dilemma in Examining the Allocation of Common Resources," in W. Collier (ed.), Rural Development.

"Population Issues and Commons Dilemmas," Policy Studies Journal, Winter, 1978. Reprinted in an expanded version of Kraft and Schneider (eds.) Population Policy Analysis (Lexington Books).

"Political Processes and Public Expenditures: A Re‑examination Based on Theories of Representative Government," American Political Science Review, December, 1976 (with Shepard).

"Trusting Attitudes and Trusting Behavior: An Examination of One Aspect of the Relationship Between Individual and Societal Modernization," Studies in Comparative International Development, Spring, 1976.

"Policy and Process: A Study of Interaction," Journal of Politics, May, 1975 (with Shepard).

"The Relationship Between Scores on Individual Modernity Scales and Societal Modernization," Journal of Developing Areas, April, 1975.

"State Land Use Policies, Winners and Losers," Environmental Law Review, 1975 (with Shepard).

"Population Policies Available to the States," Family Planning Digest, January, 1975.

"Two Thorny Theoretical Tangles: The Relationship Between Personality Variables and Modernization," Journal of Developing Areas, January, 1974.

Chapters in Scholarly Books:

“The Public Provision of Private Goods: What Corporate Lobbies Really Want,” in Allan Cigler and Burdett Loomis, eds, Interest Group Politics, 5^th edition, Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002.

“Comparing Magnet Schools and Private Schools in San Antonio,” in Terry Moe, ed. Private Voucher Programs, 2^nd edition. Stanford, CA: The Hoover Institution, forthcoming (with Martinez).

“San Antonio School Choice: A Comparison of the Effects of Public and Private School Choice Programs,” in Paul Peterson and Brian Hassel, eds. Washington, DC: Brookings, 1998 (with Kemerer and Martinez).

"The Impact of Thematic Schools of Choice in San Antonio," in B. Fuller, G. Orfield, and R. Elmore, eds. School Choice: The Cultural Logic of Families, the Political Rationality of Schools. New York: Teachers College Press, 1996 (with Martinez and Kemerer).

"Private School Choice in San Antonio," in Terry Moe, ed. Private Voucher Programs. Stanford, CA: The Hoover Institution, 1995 (with Martinez and Kemerer).

"The Use of Markets to Empower the Poor," in Helen Ingram and Steve Smith eds., Public Policies for Democracy.  Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1993.

"The Impact of Direct Marketing on Political Parties," in Robert Harmel, ed. American Government: Readings on Continuity and Change, 2nd. Edition, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

"Money, Technology, and Political Interests: The Direct Marketing of Politics," in Mark Petracca, ed. New Trends in Interest Group Behavior, Boulder: Westview Press, 1992.

"Direct Mail and American Political Parties," in L. Sandy Maisel, ed. The Encyclopedia of Political Parties. New York: Garland, 1991.

"The Meaning of 'Conservation'" in Godwin and Ingram, eds. Public Policy and the Natural Environment Greenwich, Conn.: JAI Press, 1985.

"Single Issues: Their Impact on Politics," in Helen Ingram and Dean Mann, eds. Why Policies Succeed and Fail, Sage Yearbook in Politics and Public Policy, Beverly Hills: Sage, 1980.

"Human Rights and Development: Lessons from Latin America," in John Martz and Lars Schoultz, eds., Latin America, the United States and the Interamerican System. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1980 (with Clinton).

"Methodology and Policy," in Richard Clinton ed., Population and Politics: New Directions for Political Science Research. Lexington, Mass.: D.C. Heath, 1973.