The Passage of Education Citizen Initiatives

Bali, Valentina A.

doi:10.1177/0895904807307066

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“…Bali's (2008) research study suggests that a voter's ideology and racial/ethnic background drive the passage of initiative-based reforms to education. This evidence suggests that the broad dissemination of information about the issues may not be sufficient to influence voters.…”

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Racial Diversity, Legitimacy, and the Citizenry: The Impactof Affirmative Action Bans on Graduate School Enrollment

Garces¹

2012

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This study uses data from the CGS/GRE Survey of Graduate Enrollment and Degrees and a methodology that supports causal inference to examine the effects of affirmative action bans in Texas, California, Washington, and Florida on graduate student of color enrollment. The findings show that the bans have reduced by 12.2% the average proportion of graduate students who are underrepresented students of color. Given that graduate education is an important pathway for positions of power and influence in our nation, these findings have broad implications for higher education policies that seek to further national educational and democratic goals. They should also help inform legal determinations in cases concerning the constitutionality of affirmative action-related policies.

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Section: Implications For Policymakers Researchers Public Debate Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Racial Diversity, Legitimacy, and the Citizenry: The Impactof Affirmative Action Bans on Graduate School Enrollment

Garces¹

2012

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“…Age has also been shown to affect views on vouchers, with older citizens generally less supportive of school vouchers (Leal, ; Moe, ). Parents are more supportive of vouchers than nonparents (Bali, :446; Moe, :211). Based on survey data, Moe found that respondents who were Catholic or born‐again Christians were more supportive of vouchers, and people with less income and less education were more supportive of vouchers (2001:214–15).…”

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“…Based on prior studies, we expect partisanship to be an important factor in voter support for school vouchers (Bali, ; Brunner and Imazeki, ). We expect school vouchers to appeal more to Republicans and conservatives, who are especially likely to believe that the free market is better able to provide effective educational services than government (Engel, ).…”

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Community Attachment and Voting for School Vouchers*

Burbank

Levin

2015

Social Science Quarterly

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Objective. The analysis of public support for school voucher programs has focused on economic self-interest and has paid little attention to the role of community. We propose a model of support for school vouchers that focuses on community attachment. We theorize that areas with growing residential populations will have less community attachment and be more supportive of school voucher programs while areas with long-established residents will have stronger attachments to their community institutions and be less supportive of voucher programs. Method. We test this community attachment model using data from a 2007 Utah referendum on school vouchers combined with demographic data. Result. The data show support for the community attachment model after controlling for the effects of partisanship and socioeconomic factors. Conclusion. Our analysis suggests that the nature of community life is an important consideration for understanding the appeal of public school voucher programs.While a majority of states now allow the creation of charter schools and many states permit parents to enroll their children in adjoining school districts, another centerpiece of the school choice movement-publicly funded school voucher programs-has been largely confined to inner-city populations in urban school districts. Voucher proponents have made multiple attempts to secure approval for statewide voucher programs. 1 Voucher proponents have also attempted to create statewide voucher programs through the initiative process.

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“…But in these other fields, national leaders and funders placed a greater priority on the independent study of factors affecting decision makers' judgments, particularly the political factors. Studies in these other fields not only examined the impact of governmental decision making (Martin 2008;DeBray-Pelot and McGuinn 2009;Scott, Lubienksi, and DeBray-Pelot 2009) but also the major professions and other stakeholders such as teachers, business organizations, as well as grassroots organizations and public voting (Bali 2008;Cibulka and Myers 2008;Cooper and Randall 2008). 1 We believe that as a result, the research community in these other fields has a more grounded view of what types of research and what channels of presentation might more effectively influence policy makers' decisions.…”

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