State Legislative Party Competition: A County-Level Measure

Aistrup, Joseph A.

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“…While these states do not constitute a random sample of the 50 states, they do vary on a number of key characteristics. For example, with respect to party competition as measured by Aistrup (1993) for the 1980-85 period, the states' average scores range from -.3506 in Florida to .2290 in Colorado. Between these extremes, Illinois scores -.0179, Missouri -.2259, and Wisconsin -.1066.…”

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The Impact of Party and Ideology on Roll‐Call Voting in State Legislatures

Jenkins

2006

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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To assess the relative impact of party and ideology on legislative behavior, I utilize survey-based measures of legislator ideology to examine voting in five state legislatures. The results suggest that, although party and ideology both influence voting, the impact of party is greater. The magnitude of this impact varies, however, from chamber to chamber. The activity of parties in the electoral arena explains part of this variance, with more active parties having more influence. Thus, research on legislative behavior should focus on the context surrounding the decision-making process in order for us to understand the influences on voting.

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The Impact of Party and Ideology on Roll‐Call Voting in State Legislatures

Jenkins

2006

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“…The units of analysis in this study are counties in five states. It is important to note that the counties as units of analysis yield the lowest level of constituency data that remain consistent over time (Aistrup 1993). Statewide referenda elections on an abortion funding issue were held in five states in six elections during the 1980s, 3 including Arkansas (1986), Colorado (1984,1988), Michigan (1988), Oregon (1986), andWashington (1984).…”

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

Roh

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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“…Legislative district lines also frequently conform to county boundaries (Aistrup 1993) . Adding to the appeal of the county party chair sample is the finding that, regardless of their specific position, elites involved in the electoral process tend to be a very homogeneous group (Patterson and Boynton 1970).…”

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“…Matland and Brown (1992) label Rule's conclusion a likely ecological fallacy created by assuming district level events from state level data. To wit, dominating a state on the statewide level is not equivalent to dominating all the districts within the state (Aistrup 1993). Typically, within even strong one-party states, there are competitive districts and strong districts for both parties.…”

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“…Will term limits create great competitiveness by removing incumbents from the equation at regular intervals? Or, will the effects of party strength maintain imbalanced competition in most districts?(Aistrup 1993).Another possibility is that term limits could discourage competition by removing any incentive to challenge an incumbent, since an open seat will be available within a set number of years. Thus, term limits could create irregular patterns where competition exists only when potential terms are exhausted.…”

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The missing majority: the recruitment of women as state legislative candidates

Niven

1998

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State Legislative Party Competition: A County-Level Measure

Cited by 8 publications

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The Impact of Party and Ideology on Roll‐Call Voting in State Legislatures

The Impact of Party and Ideology on Roll‐Call Voting in State Legislatures

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

The missing majority: the recruitment of women as state legislative candidates

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