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Academics Outside the Academy
In: Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics, Band 8, Heft 3
Relative to other social scientists, political scientists seem disengaged from the political world outside the academy. In this article, I suggest that this is regrettable, arguing that such service is beneficial both for scholarship and for society at large. I examine two such forms of outside service: writing for a blog and working in a political party. I examine the potential pitfalls and benefits from such service. Adapted from the source document.
Where You Sit Is Where You Stand: The Impact of Seating Proximity on Legislative Cue-Taking
In: Quarterly journal of political science, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 301-311
ISSN: 1554-0626
This article builds on Matthews and Stimsons (1975) study of legislative cue taking, analyzing the extent to which legislators sitting next to each other influence each others voting behavior. Data come from three decades of roll call votes in the California Assembly, a chamber in which each member is paired with a deskmate. By comparing deskmate pairs with nondeskmate pairs, I find that legislators vote identically to their deskmates on a sizeable subset of roll calls. This deskmate effect appears to remain strong even as a rival influence, legislative partisanship, increases in strength. Adapted from the source document.
It Takes an Outsider: Extralegislative Organization and Partisanship in the California Assembly, 1849-2006
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 51, Heft 3, S. 482-497
ISSN: 0092-5853
Political parties
"A modern book for a modern parties course Seth Masket and Hans Noel bring a contemporary perspective and engaging writing to the political parties course. Using key material from contemporary and foundational research, Masket and Noel focus on how parties solve important problems in the American political system. This perspective reveals the importance of political parties, their inner workings, and their failures and successes"--
Serving Two Masters: Using Referenda to Assess Partisan versus Dyadic Legislative Representation
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of Western Political Science Association, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Southern California Political Science Association, Northern California Political Science Association, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 104-124
ISSN: 1065-9129
A Return to Normalcy? Revisiting the Effects of Term Limits on Competitiveness and Spending in California Assembly Elections
In: State politics & policy quarterly: the official journal of the State Politics and Policy Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 20-38
ISSN: 1532-4400
Term limits advocates argued that their reform would make state legislative campaigns more competitive and less expensive, and limited early studies suggested that it may have achieved those goals. But now, with evidence from more than a decade of experience with reform, we re-examine the effects of terms limits on electoral competitiveness and campaign spending in California Assembly elections. We find that while term limits initially suppressed campaign spending, they did not check its growth for long. Today, California's state legislative elections are as expensive in real dollars as they have ever been. In terms of electoral competitiveness, state legislative incumbents are in no more danger of losing their seats today than they were in the pre-term limits days of the late 1980s. Furthermore, open-seat races are not any more competitive under term limits than before them; however, we do find a modest, but significant, decline in incumbents' average winning margin since the imposition of term limits. But since term limits have made fewer incumbents eligible to run for office, this incumbency advantage helps fewer people than it once did. Yet, for the most part, rather than being supplanted by citizen-legislators, career politicians have simply adapted to the constraints imposed by term limits. Adapted from the source document.
The Gerrymanderers Are Coming! Legislative Redistricting Won't Affect Competition or Polarization Much, No Matter Who Does It
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 39-44
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
527 Committees and the Political Party Network
In: American politics research, Band 40, Heft 1, S. 60-85
ISSN: 1532-673X
Polarized Networks: The Organizational Affiliations of National Party Convention Delegates
In: American behavioral scientist: ABS, Band 56, Heft 12, S. 1654-1677
ISSN: 0002-7642
A theory of political parties: groups, policy demands and nominations in American politics
In: Perspectives on politics: a political science public sphere, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 571-597
ISSN: 1537-5927
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