What Lies Beneath: The Political Roots of State Merit Systems
In: Journal of public administration research and theory, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 27-42
ISSN: 1053-1858
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In: Journal of public administration research and theory, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 27-42
ISSN: 1053-1858
In: American political science review, Band 95, Heft 4, S. 953-962
ISSN: 1537-5943
Aggregate party identification (macropartisanship) has exhibited substantial movement in the U.S. electorate over the last half century. We contend that a major key to that movement is a rare, massive, and enduring shift of the electoral equilibrium commonly known as a partisan realignment. The research, which is based on time-series data that employ the classic measurement of party identification, shows that the 1980 election triggered a systematic growth of Republican identification that cut deeply into the overwhelming Democratic lead dating back to the New Deal realignment. Although short-term fluctuations in macropartisanship are responsive to the elements of everyday politics, neither presidential approval nor consumer sentiment is found responsible for the 1980 shift.
In: American political science review, Band 95, Heft 4, S. 953-962
ISSN: 0003-0554
Aggregate party identification (macropartisanship) has exhibited substantial movement in the US electorate over the last half century. We contend that a major key to that movement is a rare, massive, & enduring shift of the electoral equilibrium commonly known as a partisan realignment. The research, which is based on time-series data that employ the classic measurement of party identification, shows that the 1980 election triggered a systematic growth of Republican identification that cut deeply into the overwhelming Democratic lead dating back to the New Deal realignment. Although short-term fluctuations in macropartisanship are responsive to the elements of everyday politics, neither presidential approval nor consumer sentiment is found responsible for the 1980 shift. Realignments aside, macropartisanship is guided by a stable, not a continuously moving, equilibrium. 3 Tables, 2 Figures, 44 References. Adapted from the source document.
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 75, Heft 4, S. 993-1008
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 75, Heft 4, S. 993-1008
ISSN: 0022-3816
In: American journal of political science, Band 54, Heft 1, S. 107-124
ISSN: 1540-5907
In this study we revisit the question of black representation on city councils and school boards using a novel substantive and methodological approach and longitudinal data for a sample of over 300 boards and councils. Conceptualizing black representation as a two-stage process, we fit Mullahy's hurdle Poisson models to explain whether and to what extent blacks achieve representation in local legislatures. We find that while the size of the black population and electoral arrangements matter more than ever, especially for overcoming the representational hurdle, the extent to which the black population is concentrated is also strongly associated with black council representation. Further, whereas black resources and opportunities to build 'rainbow' coalitions with Latinos or liberal whites are marginally if at all related to black legislative representation, we find that legislative size is an underappreciated mechanism by which to increase representation, particularly in at-large systems, and is perhaps the best predictor of moving towards additional representation. Adapted from the source document.