Changes in Professionalism in U. S. State Legislatures

King, James D.

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“…Each state has its own way of making and executing policy. Gubernatorial authority, for example, varies significantly among the states (Beyle, 2003), as does the professionalism of state legislatures (King, 2000). Local differences are even more pronounced.…”

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Reliable Effectiveness: A Theory on Sustaining and Replicating Worthwhile Innovations

Racine

2006

Adm Policy Ment Health

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While many health and human service innovations are sustained and replicated, it has been a puzzle how to sustain and replicate the performance of the better ones. What knowledge, skills, and conditions are required to reproduce across space and time the effectiveness of those innovations that are the most worthwhile? An extensive body of literature and experience is reviewed to suggest a comprehensive conceptual framework of programmatic, organizational, and environmental factors that may shape the circumstances for sustaining and replicating effectiveness.

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Section: Groundworkmentioning

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Reliable Effectiveness: A Theory on Sustaining and Replicating Worthwhile Innovations

Racine

2006

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“…Another reason to use legislative salary as a measure of legislative professionalism is that the data is available for every year covered by this study, whereas the composite scores have only been constructed for various specific years (1963-1964 fiscal year, 1973-1974 fiscal year, 1983-1984 fiscal year, 1988, 1993-1994 fiscal year, 1996 and 2002) (King 2000;Squire 1992Squire , 2000McLendon et al 2009). Therefore, if the composite score were to be used much of the year-to-year variance would be lost as the data would have to be stretched over the periods of missing data.…”

Section: Legislative Professionalismmentioning

confidence: 98%

Politics, Interest Groups and State Funding of Public Higher Education

2010

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State support of public higher education has rapidly declined relative to total state spending. Much of this decline in support is due to the rapid growth in spending on such things as Medicaid. However, relative support of public higher education varies significantly between states. This study applies Tandberg's (2009) fiscal policy framework created to explain state support of public higher education in order to evaluate the relationship between various factors and states' relative support of higher education. While Tandberg's fiscal policy framework accounts for traditional economic and demographic factors in explaining state support for higher education, it also draws attention to political influences as well including the impact of state-level interest groups. Using cross-sectional time-series analysis these relationships are explored over a 19-year period. The findings provide evidence of the significant impact of interest groups and politics on state fiscal policy in regard to higher education.

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“…The Squire index normalizes each of these indices by the relevant score for the US Congress of the same year. There was a strong move to professionalism in a subset of states during the 1960s (King 2000) but during the bulk of our sample, scores are fairly stable over time, though they exhibit considerable variation in the cross-section. For more information, see Squire (2007).…”

Section: Legislative Professionalismmentioning

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Policy Uncertainty and Manufacturing Investment: Evidence from U.S. State Elections

Shelton

Falk

2016

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. We estimate the effect of electorally induced policy uncertainty on investment in the manufacturing sector. Because state governors exercise considerable influence over legislation and considerable discretion over regulation and permitting, and because the policies relevant to business investment vary systematically by party, uncertainty over the partisan affiliation of the future governor is a source of political risk to firms considering business investment. More importantly, the lack of an incumbent in a race due to term limits raises uncertainty over the outcome, providing a convincing instrument that allows us to estimate causal effects. We find that, in a state with average partisan polarization, in the calendar year of a gubernatorial election, the elasticity of investment to the eventual margin of victory is 0.027. Both the significance and magnitude of this result are robust to various controls, measures, and estimators. Importantly, the investment decline is not reversed the following year. We show that own-state uncertainty is associated with a large and significant rise in neighboring states' investment, suggesting that rather than postponing investment to the future, the effect of policy uncertainty at the subnational level is to drive investment to alternative sites. Terms of use: Documents inJEL-Codes: D720, E020, E640.

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Changes in Professionalism in U. S. State Legislatures

Cited by 164 publications

References 27 publications

Reliable Effectiveness: A Theory on Sustaining and Replicating Worthwhile Innovations

Reliable Effectiveness: A Theory on Sustaining and Replicating Worthwhile Innovations

Politics, Interest Groups and State Funding of Public Higher Education

Policy Uncertainty and Manufacturing Investment: Evidence from U.S. State Elections

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