Estimating vote-specific preferences from roll-call data using conditional autoregressive priors

Ideal point estimation in political science usually aims to reduce a matrix of votes to a small number of preference dimensions. We argue that taking a non-parametric perspective can yield measures that are more useful for some subsequent analyses. We propose a conditional autoregressive preference measurement model, which we use to generate case-specific preference estimates for US Supreme Court justices from 1946 to 2005. We show that the varying relative legal positions taken by justices across areas of law condition the opinion assignment strategy of the Chief Justice and the decisions of all justices as to whether to join the majority opinion. Unlike previous analyses that have made similar claims, using case-specific preference estimates enables us to hold constant the justices involved, providing stronger evidence that justices are strategically responsive to each others' relative positions on a case-by-case basis rather than simply their identities or average relative preferences

The Car Sharer\u27s Companion: An Owner\u27s Manual for Car Sharing in Portland, Oregon

So, you want to start a car sharing organization. The Car Sharer\u27s Companion, researched and written by the team members of CarShare Cascadia Mobility Consultants, is your handbook and resource guide for starting a car sharing organization in Portland, Oregon. After your operation mobilizes, the Companion can continue to serve as a reference. It comes in two parts. Part I: An Ignition Guide presents the steps to start up a car sharing operation. Its four chapters cover how to build and incorporate your organization, how to find and serve a market for car sharing, what decisions to make in investment and insurance, and a what strategies to use for managing the operation. The Ignition Guide encourages you with evidence that, once knowing how, where, with whom to start an car sharing\u27 organization, you can develop an economically feasible, convenient, and marketable enterprise in Portland. The handbook format includes information, advice, and italicized illustrative case studies. Part II: A Resource Guide is useful for when you seek more in-depth information about the subjects discussed in Part I. It provides a subject index and an annotated bibliography to the sources that inform this handbook. Moreover, it provides a list of potential car sharers--the beginnings ofa network in Portland. Section I ofthe Resource Guide presents the subject-by-subject resource directory. Its subjects match the four chapters in the Ignition Guide above. For instance, after reading about the best corporate structure in section 1-2 of Chapter 1: Mobilizing Your Organization in the handbook, you can turn to the section 1-2 of the resource directory to find an index of sources on corporate form. Section II of the Resource guide is not arranged by subject. It is an alphabetized, fully annotated source bibliography. Sources include a variety of interviews, meetings, correspondences, and also annotated literature entries that support our findings. Finally, we have provided a glossary ofthe key car sharing concepts that drive the mobility sharing movement. Read these on the following page to prime yourself for your journey into the wonderful world of car sharing. And believe us, it is truly a beautiful place. So turn that page and twist that ignition key. Let\u27s hit the road

UA12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 53, No. 43

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. This issue contains articles: Judd, Alan & John Clark. Energy Use Down; More Cuts Coming Judd, Alan. Losses Won’t Halt Associated Student Government Free Concert Beshear, Tom. Time Keeper: John Oldham Makes New Old Clocks Judd, Alan. Associated Student Government Throws in Towels for Performers Bonus Weathered Roads Get Temporary Repairs Beshear, Tom. 14 Thefts May Be Connected Muscular Dystrophy Dance-a-Thon Sign Up Continues – Sigma Alpha Epsilon, Alpha Omicron Pi Cry for Better Concerts Finally Heard Editorial Cartoon: Ever Get the Idea People Don’t Like Our Concerts? Gibbons Sharif, Osama. Clarifies Quotation Ruff, Loren. Questions Evaluations Lyon, Patricia. Faculty Evaluations Criticized Larkins, Jon. Fair Concert Solution Shields, Robin. Prefers Original Art Humphries, Andy. Defends Corvair Nedvidak, Tom. Cites Letter Omission Johnson, Jerry. Brick Excellent Choice Young, Monte. Pageant Solves Beauty Mist-ery – Miss Black Western Hancock, Catherine & Roger Malone. Problems Can Commence If Graduation Forms are Late Young, Monte. Hub License Appealed McCord, Tom. Overseas Study Available Pearce-Ford Groups to Recruit, Train Resident Assistants Fish, Tim. Play’’s Crew Hammers It Up – Man of La Mancha Dean Joseph Sandefur to Head Education Group Duties Being Specified for Clerical Workers Bennett, Jo. Professors Record Western’s History – Jim Bennett, Carlton Jackson Beshear, Tom. Student Makes a Living Photographing Parties – Leslie Reynolds Carpenter, Steve. Fewer Bomb Threats After Policy Change Head Start Offers Children Jump Money, Personal Item Stolen Dorm to Show Movies – Pearce-Ford Tower Senior Wins with Love Songs – Gary Myers White, Don. James Johnson Puts Western Back in Race Armstrong, Bryan. Austin Peay Outhustles Outfights Toppers White, Don & Beth Taylor. Poor Shooing Dooms Tops Whitaker, David. Del Hessel Pleased by Fourth-Place Tie Vincent, Robin. Toppers Win Despite Injures - Gymnastics Lee Murray’s Replacement Hired – Larry Walker Vincent, Robin. Injuries Costly to Tops in Second-Place Finish Whitaker, David. Wins Cap Perfect Dual Year – Swimmin

Book Reviews

GOVERNOR LEROY COLLINS OF FLORIDA: SPOKESMAN FOR THE NEW SOUTH, by Tom Wagy, reviewed by Manning J. Dauer; HE-COON: THE BOB SIKES STORY, edited by Bobbye Sikes Wicke, reviewed by D. R. “Billy” Matthews; THE MIAMI RIOT OF 1980: CROSSING THE BOUNDS, by Bruce Porter and Marvin Dunn, reviewed by Robert P. Ingalls; MODERN FLORIDA GOVERNMENT, by Anne E. Kelley, reviewed by Allen Morris; RAILS ‘NEATH THE PALMS, by Robert W. Mann, reviewed by Herbert J. Doherty, Jr.; GEORGE WASHINGTON, A BIOGRAPHY, by John R. Alden, reviewed by Aubrey C. Land; THE PAPERS OF HENRY CLAY, VOLUME 8, CANDIDATE , COMPROMISER , WHIG, MARCH 5, 1829-DECEMBER 31, 1836, edited by Robert Seager II, reviewed by Edwin A. Miles; NO CHARIOT LET DOWN: CHARLESTON\u27S FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR ON THE EVE OF THE CIVIL WAR, edited by Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark, reviewed by Theodore Hemmingway; A WOMAN DOCTOR\u27S CIVIL WAR: ESTHER HILL HAWKS’ DIARY, edited by Gerald Schwartz, reviewed by Joe M. Richardson; LAST TRAIN SOUTH: THE FLIGHT OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT FROM RICHMOND, by James C. Clark, reviewed by William Warren Rogers; THE BOOKER T. WASHINGTON PAPERS, VOLUME 13: 1914-1915, edited by Louis R. Harlan and Raymond W. Smock, reviewed by Thomas D. Clark; THE GREENING OF THE SOUTH: THE RECOVERY OF LAND AND FOREST, by Thomas D. Clark, reviewed by Linda Vance; THE NEW DEAL AND THE SOUTH, edited by James C. Cobb and Michael V. Namorato, reviewed by Thomas S. Morgan; RUNNING SCARED: SILVER IN MISSISSIPPI, by James W. Silver, reviewed by Numan V. Bartley; AMBIVALENT LEGACY: A LEGAL HISTORY OF THE SOUTH, edited by David J. Bodenhamer and James W. Ely, Jr., reviewed by John W. Johnson; SWAMP WATER AND WIREGRASS: HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF COASTAL GEORGIA, by George A. Rogers and R. Frank Saunders, Jr., reviewed by Kenneth Colema

Research and Practice in K-12 Online Learning: A Review of Open Access Literature

The literature related to online learning programs for K-12 students dates to the mid-1990s and builds upon a century of research and practice from K-12 distance education. While K-12 online learning programs have evolved and grown over the past decade, the amount of published research on virtual schooling practice and policy is limited. The current literature includes practitioner reports and experimental and quasi-experimental studies, both published and unpublished. This paper reviews open access literature in K-12 online learning and reports on a structured content analysis of the documents. Themes in the literature include steady growth and a focus on the benefits, challenges, and broad effectiveness of K-12 online learning. In addition, newly developed standards for K-12 online learning are emerging in descriptions of effective practices

Title and Contents- Winter 2002

Great Plains Quarterly Volume 22/ Number 1 / Winter 2002 CONTENTS THE MAKING OF LITTLE SWEDEN, USA Steven M. Schnell A SLAVE TO YELLOW PERIL: THE 1886 CHINESE OUSTER ATTEMPT IN WICHITA, KANSAS Julie Courtwright THE BEGINNING OF THE END: THE INDIAN PEACE COMMISSION OF 1867-1868 Kerry R. Oman BOOK REVIEWS Bruce E. Johnson Shapers of the Great Debate on Native Americans - Land, Spirit, and Power By ROBERT L. BEE Tom Dunlay Kit Carson and the Indians By ROBERT S. MCPHERSON Amanda J. Cobb Listening to Our Grandmothers\u27 Stories: The Bloomfield Academy for Chickasaw Females, 1852-1949 By MARY JANE WARDE William Wyckoff Creating Colorado: The Making of a Western American Landscape, 1860-1940 By KENNETH HELPHAND Stan Hoig The Kiowas and the Legend of Kicking Bird By CHARLES M. ROBINSON III Stan Hoig Fort Reno and the Indian Territory Frontier By R. WARREN METCALF Wayne R. Kime, ed. The Indian Territory Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge By SCOTT ECKBERG Anne M. Butler, ed. The Frontiers and Catholic Identities By ROBERT C. CARRIKER Joy S. Kasson Buffalo Bill\u27s Wild West: Celebrity, Memory, and Popular History By SARAH J. BLACKSTONE Kenneth William Townsend World War II and the American Indian By TOM HOLM Lynda Lee Kaid and Anne Johnston Videostyle in Presidential Campaigns: Style and Content of Televised Political Advertising By E. D. DOVER William S. E. Coleman Voices of Wounded Knee By CHRISTER LINDBERG Tom Isern Dakota Circle: Excursions on the True Plains By KIMBERLY K. PORTER Beth Loffreda Losing Matt Shepard: Life and Politics in the Aftermath of Anti-Gay Murder By JOHN GILGUN Lee Irwin, ed. Native American Spirituality: A Critical Reader By CHRISTOPHER VECSEY Lionel Little Eagle Greengrass Pipe Dancers By KATHLEEN DANKER Shepard Krech III and Barbara A. Hail, eds. Collecting Native America, 1870-1960 By ALFRED YOUNG MAN Christopher Cardozo, ed., and photographs by Edward S. Curtis Sacred Legacy: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian By MARGARET A. MACKICHAN James R. Shortridge Our Town on the Plains: J. J. Pennell\u27s Photographs of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922 By RICHARD FRANCAVIGLIA Kendall Nelson and Felicitas Funke-Riehle Gathering Remnants: A Tribute to the Working Cowboy By J. C. LEACOCK Sharon O\u27Brien, ed. New Essays on My Antonia By ANDREW JEWELL LaVerne Harrell Clark Mari Sandoz\u27s Native Nebraska: The Plains Indian Country By KIM LEE Carlton Smith Coyote Kills John Wayne: Postmoderism and Contemporary Fictions of the Transcultural Frontier By SHARI M. HUHNDORF BOOK NOTES NOTES AND NEW

UA12/2/1 College Heights Herald, Vol. 54, No. 3

WKU campus newspaper reporting campus, athletic and Bowling Green, Kentucky news. Articles in this issue: Carpenter, Steve. Electricity Restored after 22 Hours Holman, Connie. Internal: Senior Spends Summer Working, Learning in Capital – Mike Jeannette Stinnett, Roger. Western Seeks Transmitter Permit Clark, John. Film about Drug Abuse Raises Local Concern Holman, Connie. ‘We Shall Survive’: New Black Sorority Ready to Get Involved on Campus – Sigma Gamma Rho Judd, Alan. Chances not Good for Getting doctors Graduation Requirement to Change Early Registration Is Open to 4000 Whitaker, David. With Tickets Inevitable, Fine Splitting Practical Malone, Roger. Grants Deterred for 500 Students ‘Ice-breaker’ to Familiarize Black Women with Greek Life Childers, Shawn. J.T. Sandefur Speaks in Brazil Lee, Renee. It Wasn’t in Cards for Rook Champs Holman, Connie. Alpha Kappa Psi to Stress Business Roots Fraternities Treat Rushees to Parties New Pope’s Name Choice Called Significant by Some – John Paul I Hancock, Catherine. Attorney Interprets Laws, Advises – William Bivin 60 Humanities Lectures Set Witcher, Russ. Observatory Construction Approved McCord, Tom. Abortion Trial Continues Fish, Tim. Housing ‘Crunch’ not Serious for the First Time in 3 Years Whitaker, David. Dero Downing Betters Relations Beshear, Tom. Professors to Teach in Nigeria, Iran – James Wesolowski, Carlton Jackson Carpenter, Steve. Spaces Made for 218 Cars - Parking White, Don. Tops to Work on Timing, Techniques Del Hessel Recruits Scot to Replace Slaughter Gene Keady: Western Kentucky University s Wheeler-dealer Taylor, Beth. Katy Tinius Will Miss Home Match; Coach’s Action Undecided Meetings to Organize Intermural Player Scheduled Stevens, Vickie. Disco Duo Dances in Panty Hose A

Preacher\u27s Magazine Volume 61 Number 01

CREATIVE OUTREACH MINISTRIES REACH FOR THE PEAK, Keith A. Maule HERE’S ANOTHER “OPPORTUNITY”!, Tom Shaw NEW HEIGHTS FOR LOS ALTOS, Robert Appleby ALL IN THE NAME OF JESUS, David Plunkett SAYING “I LOVE YOU” IN SAN ANTONIO, Leonard W. Adams MISSIONS AND THE GREAT COMMISSION COME HOME, Nathan Price THE FORGOTTEN FLOCK, Curt Bowers HOW TO MINISTER TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS, Eldon E. Fry PARENTS’ NIGHT OUT—AND THEN SOME, Ted Nissen PEOPLE NEEDS AND STEEPLE NEEDS, Glen L. Van Dyne DRAMA AS OUTREACH MINISTRY, Paul M. Miller THE BATMAN SYNDROME AND THE CARE OF YOUR CAPE, Michael Mallory ADULT EDUCATION AS OUTREACH, Jim Tracy 12 IDEAS FOR CREATIVE MINISTRY, Don Whitlock, Jim Tracy, C. Daniel Vanderpool, W. W. Densford, Gene Schandorff, Rickey Short, Robert W. Jackson STRATEGIZING FOR EVANGELISM, Clark Armstrong FEATURE ARTICLESFINANCE: New Rules for Substantiation of Charitable Contributions, Paul D. Fitzgerald WESLEYANA: Christianity Reduced to Practice, Joseph Seaborn, Jr. PASTORAL CLINIC: Frozen Out!, Marshall Shelley THE MINISTRY: The Ins and Outs of the Pastoral Vote, Dick Howard and Richard S. Taylor REGULAR FEATURESSuitable for Framing We Get Letters Editorial Today’s Books for Today’s Preacher Preacher’s Exchange Sermon Outlines Old Testament Word Studies New Testament Word Studies The Ark Rockerhttps://digitalcommons.olivet.edu/cotn_pm/1638/thumbnail.jp