All Politics is Not Local: National Forces in State Abortion Initiatives

Roh, Jongho; Haider‐Markel, Donald P.

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“…Membership in both religious groups, as expected, has strong negative influences on support for pro-abortion funding. These results are consistent with previous research findings (Meier and McFarlane 1993;Roh and Haider-Markel 2003). 16 However, both the percentage of women in workforce and the percentage of voters voting for the Republican presidential candidate have no relationship with a vote supporting abortion funding.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Nevertheless, abortion is a highly salient issue that increases party competition, particularly at the national-level (Cook, Jelen, and Wilcox 1993b). One empirical study found that national elections influence countylevel voting patterns on state abortion initiatives (Roh and Haider-Markel 2003). Furthermore, 1984 and 1988, major years for abortion funding initiatives in this study, are presidential years.…”

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confidence: 61%

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Modeling the Outcomes of State Abortion Funding Referenda: Morality or Redistributive Policy, or Both?

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Berry

2008

State Politics Policy Q.

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While Lowi (1964) claims that policies can be classified as one of three types, distributive, redistributive, or regulatory, his work has been criticized as incomplete. Policies are frequently multidimensional, and his categories are neither comprehensive nor mutually exclusive. A fourth policy type, morality policy, has now been well-established as distinct from the other three types (e.g., Meier 1994; Mooney 2001). Evidence suggests that some policies can be framed as multidimensional policy types. Abortion funding is one such policy issue that has aspects of both morality policy and redistributive policy in its politics. In this study, we develop models of government abortion funding based on abortion as a morality and a redistributive policy. We estimate these models using weighted least squares to explain the voting outcomes of county-level votes in six state referenda elections for government funding of abortions. Then, we test a combined model and find clear evidence that the combined model, and variables from both perspectives, provide a stronger case than a single policy typology model alone. A practical implication is that policy advocates may purposely emphasize different values and results of the policies. Thus, testing policy theories may need to include more complex views of policies based on policy types. policy typologies have provided an important analytical framework in the study of public policy, using the assumption that every policy type has its own political dynamics. Typologies help classify policies and identify associated political dynamics. Lowi (1964) was the first author to hypothesize that the type of policy would shape the type of politics surrounding the issue. His work laid out distributive, redistributive, and regulatory policy as the primary policy types. Lowi's typology has been widely used in the study of public policy, but it has also been criticized because of its limited empirical applicability and difficulties in valid and reliable classifications (Greenberg,

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Modeling the Outcomes of State Abortion Funding Referenda: Morality or Redistributive Policy, or Both?

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Berry

2008

State Politics Policy Q.

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“…5 In addition to its statistical advantages (Berry 1994;Berry and Berry 1999), the widespread use of EHA has facilitated comparability across studies, enabling scholars to identify several factors that affect whether and when state officials will enact public policies. These correlates of adoption include economic conditions, such as state wealth and the availability of karch at University of Birmingham on June 2, 2015 spa.sagepub.com Downloaded from slack resources (Rogers 1995;Daley and Garand 2005;Dye 1966;Tweedie 1994), political conditions, such as partisanship and ideology (Spill, Licari, and Ray 2001;Roh and Haider-Markel 2003), and problem severity (Nice 1994;Sapat 2004;Daley and Garand 2005). 6 The use of event history analysis, in short, has shed significant light on the state-level characteristics associated with the enactment of public policy.…”

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Emerging Issues and Future Directions in State Policy Diffusion Research

Karch

2007

State Politics Policy Q.

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This article analyzes existing scholarship on the diffusion of public policies among the American states, focusing on recent developments in this line of research and suggesting several potential avenues for future work. The analysis is organized around three fundamental questions. First, why does policy diffusion occur? Answering this question will require scholars to devote more attention to concepts such as imitation, emulation, and competition. Second, which political forces facilitate or impede policy diffusion? Answering this question will require scholars to devote more attention to the causal mechanisms at work when states adopt policies like those of other states. Third, what is being diffused? Answering this question will require scholars to think more carefully about the content of public policy, both as an outcome to be explained and as a factor that itself affects the diffusion process.

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“…Roh and Haider-Markel (2003) and Alvarez and Bedolla (2004). focusing on abortion and affinnative action, respectively, find that the positions of presidential candidates also .serve as cues for voters in ballot issue campaigns, bringing party back as a cue.…”

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Information at the Margin: Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws, Ballot Issues, and Voter Knowledge

Primo

2013

Election Law Journal: Rules, Politics, and Policy

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All 24 states that permit voters to cast ballots directly on policy matters also require that contributions and expenditures on ballot issue campaigns be disclosed publicly. Scholars assert that information about the financial involvement of interest groups in ballot issue campaigns provides voters with valuable cues about how to vote on potentially complex and confusing issues. In this article, I argue that the proper way to assess the informational benefits of disclosure is to assess whether the information gleaned from disclosure reports is beneficial to voters at the margin, once other available information is taken into account. Using a survey experiment. I show that disclosure information provides few marginal benefits for voters, calling into question the informational rationale for disclosure laws.

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All Politics is Not Local: National Forces in State Abortion Initiatives

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Modeling the Outcomes of State Abortion Funding Referenda: Morality or Redistributive Policy, or Both?

Modeling the Outcomes of State Abortion Funding Referenda: Morality or Redistributive Policy, or Both?

Emerging Issues and Future Directions in State Policy Diffusion Research

Information at the Margin: Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws, Ballot Issues, and Voter Knowledge

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