Page 253. CHAPTER 12 Public Opinion in the States: A Quarter Century of Change and Stability ROBE... more Page 253. CHAPTER 12 Public Opinion in the States: A Quarter Century of Change and Stability ROBERT S. ERIKSON, GERALD C. WRIGHT, AND JOHN P. MCIVER Introduction More than a decade ago, our book Statehouse ...
HE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERPARTY competition and state social welfare policies has received con... more HE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERPARTY competition and state social welfare policies has received considerable attention among students of comparative state politics.' Political scientists investigating such relationships typically employ linear correlation and regression techniques, and only recently have they begun to examine the possibility of nonlinear relationships among environmental, political, and policy output variables. This note examines the conclusions of one of these, Glen Broach's "Interparty Competition, State Welfare Policies, and Nonlinear Regression."2
... has been the Ranney index of state partisanship with its several updates (Ranney and Kendall,... more ... has been the Ranney index of state partisanship with its several updates (Ranney and Kendall, 1954; Ranney, 1976; Bibby et al ... composed of all surveys has an N of 76,614, with 74,667 respondents for party identification and 71,565 respondents for ideological identification. ...
MICHAEL COVEYOU AND DAVID PFEiFFER recently reported an exception to a long held generalization o... more MICHAEL COVEYOU AND DAVID PFEiFFER recently reported an exception to a long held generalization of American electoral behavior.' Among blacks, they argued, education was not monotonically related to voting turnout in the 1968 presidential election. Blacks with a high school education, they found, voted proportionately less than those with either a grade school education or a college education. The importance of this finding, according to the authors, is that "a long accepted generalization-that turnout increases as education increases-is now contradicted in a domestic as well as a foreign setting."2 The positive relationship between education and voting turnout is among the most solidly based generalizations in the field of electoral behavior.3 Exceptions to broad generalizations raise serious complications for the scholar who is constructing empirically based political theory. Constructing political theory from empirical
Roll-call data have become a staple of contemporary scholarship on legislative behavior. Recent m... more Roll-call data have become a staple of contemporary scholarship on legislative behavior. Recent methodological innovations in the analysis of roll-call data have produced a number of important theoretical insights, such as understanding the structure of congressional decisionmaking and the role of parties and ideology in Congress. Many of the methodological innovations and theoretical questions sparked by congressional scholarship have been difficult to test at the state level because of the lack of comprehensive data on various forms of state legislative behavior, including roll-call voting. The Representation in America's Legislatures project rectifies that problem through collection of comprehensive state legislative roll-call votes across all 99 state legislative chambers for the 1999–2000 and 2003–04 legislative sessions. In this article, we describe the data available through this project as well as our data acquisition procedures, including Stata and Perl programming and ...
In a nationwide survey Carey, Niemi, Powell, and Moncrief (2006) found that term-limited state le... more In a nationwide survey Carey, Niemi, Powell, and Moncrief (2006) found that term-limited state legislators feel less constrained by their constituencies. I use direct measures of legislative activity to examine how this “Burkean shift” in attitudes is manifested in roll-call behavior. With a new dataset consisting of all competitive state legislative roll calls for the 1999–2000 sessions and a new measure of district constituency preferences, I examine three hypotheses: that term-limited legislators are less representative of their constituents, are more polarized, and participate less in roll-call voting. I find no evidence that term-limited legislators are any less representative, and no differences in levels of party polarization appear associated with the term limits reform. I find that the impact of term limits on roll-call voting is manifested in decreased legislative effort, but this effect only appears in the more demanding legislatures. The results are consistent with the s...
Previous research by Kammeyer et al. has found that the availability of family planning services ... more Previous research by Kammeyer et al. has found that the availability of family planning services in U.S. counties is positively related to the percentage of blacks in the population but has yet to establish the correct interpretation for the linkage. Services provided through county health departments and hospitals are usually provided by authority of local boards and county commissions. These people respond to local elites and share local political norms. Threatened whites are more disposed to fertility control programs than whites living in nonblack areas. Little support is found for an altruistic interpretation of local policy decisions. The decisions regarding services provided by Planned Parenthood and O.E.O. are due mainly to urbanism and are not consistent with either the racial or the altruistic interpretation. The variables used to determine these conclusions were measures of black concentration county political orientations other policies affecting blacks and the availability of family planning services.
Page 253. CHAPTER 12 Public Opinion in the States: A Quarter Century of Change and Stability ROBE... more Page 253. CHAPTER 12 Public Opinion in the States: A Quarter Century of Change and Stability ROBERT S. ERIKSON, GERALD C. WRIGHT, AND JOHN P. MCIVER Introduction More than a decade ago, our book Statehouse ...
HE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERPARTY competition and state social welfare policies has received con... more HE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERPARTY competition and state social welfare policies has received considerable attention among students of comparative state politics.' Political scientists investigating such relationships typically employ linear correlation and regression techniques, and only recently have they begun to examine the possibility of nonlinear relationships among environmental, political, and policy output variables. This note examines the conclusions of one of these, Glen Broach's "Interparty Competition, State Welfare Policies, and Nonlinear Regression."2
... has been the Ranney index of state partisanship with its several updates (Ranney and Kendall,... more ... has been the Ranney index of state partisanship with its several updates (Ranney and Kendall, 1954; Ranney, 1976; Bibby et al ... composed of all surveys has an N of 76,614, with 74,667 respondents for party identification and 71,565 respondents for ideological identification. ...
MICHAEL COVEYOU AND DAVID PFEiFFER recently reported an exception to a long held generalization o... more MICHAEL COVEYOU AND DAVID PFEiFFER recently reported an exception to a long held generalization of American electoral behavior.' Among blacks, they argued, education was not monotonically related to voting turnout in the 1968 presidential election. Blacks with a high school education, they found, voted proportionately less than those with either a grade school education or a college education. The importance of this finding, according to the authors, is that "a long accepted generalization-that turnout increases as education increases-is now contradicted in a domestic as well as a foreign setting."2 The positive relationship between education and voting turnout is among the most solidly based generalizations in the field of electoral behavior.3 Exceptions to broad generalizations raise serious complications for the scholar who is constructing empirically based political theory. Constructing political theory from empirical
Roll-call data have become a staple of contemporary scholarship on legislative behavior. Recent m... more Roll-call data have become a staple of contemporary scholarship on legislative behavior. Recent methodological innovations in the analysis of roll-call data have produced a number of important theoretical insights, such as understanding the structure of congressional decisionmaking and the role of parties and ideology in Congress. Many of the methodological innovations and theoretical questions sparked by congressional scholarship have been difficult to test at the state level because of the lack of comprehensive data on various forms of state legislative behavior, including roll-call voting. The Representation in America's Legislatures project rectifies that problem through collection of comprehensive state legislative roll-call votes across all 99 state legislative chambers for the 1999–2000 and 2003–04 legislative sessions. In this article, we describe the data available through this project as well as our data acquisition procedures, including Stata and Perl programming and ...
In a nationwide survey Carey, Niemi, Powell, and Moncrief (2006) found that term-limited state le... more In a nationwide survey Carey, Niemi, Powell, and Moncrief (2006) found that term-limited state legislators feel less constrained by their constituencies. I use direct measures of legislative activity to examine how this “Burkean shift” in attitudes is manifested in roll-call behavior. With a new dataset consisting of all competitive state legislative roll calls for the 1999–2000 sessions and a new measure of district constituency preferences, I examine three hypotheses: that term-limited legislators are less representative of their constituents, are more polarized, and participate less in roll-call voting. I find no evidence that term-limited legislators are any less representative, and no differences in levels of party polarization appear associated with the term limits reform. I find that the impact of term limits on roll-call voting is manifested in decreased legislative effort, but this effect only appears in the more demanding legislatures. The results are consistent with the s...
Previous research by Kammeyer et al. has found that the availability of family planning services ... more Previous research by Kammeyer et al. has found that the availability of family planning services in U.S. counties is positively related to the percentage of blacks in the population but has yet to establish the correct interpretation for the linkage. Services provided through county health departments and hospitals are usually provided by authority of local boards and county commissions. These people respond to local elites and share local political norms. Threatened whites are more disposed to fertility control programs than whites living in nonblack areas. Little support is found for an altruistic interpretation of local policy decisions. The decisions regarding services provided by Planned Parenthood and O.E.O. are due mainly to urbanism and are not consistent with either the racial or the altruistic interpretation. The variables used to determine these conclusions were measures of black concentration county political orientations other policies affecting blacks and the availability of family planning services.
Uploads