Casework, issues and voting in state legislative elections: a district analysis
In: The journal of legislative studies, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 32-46
ISSN: 1743-9337
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In: The journal of legislative studies, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 32-46
ISSN: 1743-9337
In: Congress & the presidency, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 69-86
ISSN: 1944-1053
In: Congress and the presidency: an interdisciplinary journal of political science and history, Band 29, Heft 1, S. 69-90
ISSN: 0734-3469
In: Political research quarterly: PRQ ; official journal of the Western Political Science Association and other associations, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 583
ISSN: 1938-274X
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 52, Heft 3, S. 583-608
ISSN: 1065-9129
In: American journal of political science, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 490
ISSN: 1540-5907
In: American journal of political science: AJPS, Band 39, Heft 2, S. 490-512
ISSN: 0092-5853
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 69-84
ISSN: 1460-3683
The purpose of this research is to discern more explicitly how electoral reforms that limit terms of service impact on intra-party competition and campaign expenditures in US state legislative contests. Particularly, we are interested in whether term limits have differential effects across political parties, given the increasing number of open seats. Contrary to the conventional argument that term limits will invigorate competition, we find that increasing the number of candidates does not translate into more competitive races. In fact, the implementation of term limits results in a decrease in the level of electoral competition in open races, particularly for Democratic candidates. Moreover, this decrease in electoral competition is typically related to a dramatic increase in campaign expenditures in districts with open races.
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 69-84
ISSN: 1354-0688
In: The journal of legislative studies, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 50-69
ISSN: 1743-9337
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 221-241
ISSN: 1460-3683
If we want to know what is happening to political parties today, the answer depends in part on how we define the term `party' and in part on the time frame used for analysis. In this paper we focus on parties as voting coalitions in the US House and the Senate over the last 40 years. To assess the ideological placement and cohesiveness of each party in the House and Senate, we use adjusted scores issued by the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA). Our adjustment corrects for changes in the ADA's scale from year to year. The analysis is carried out by focusing on each of the four main regional factions comprising the parties. The cross-chamber comparisons for the Republicans show a high degree of stability with respect to ideological placement and cohesiveness; eastern Republicans maintain a more liberal stance throughout the period of analysis. For Democrats in both chambers there has been a liberal shift in recent years and an increase in cohesiveness overall; the southern Democrats are distinctively more conservative than the rest of the party, although less so in recent years. Both of the `outlier' factions (eastern Republicans and southern Democrats) unexpectedly display less cohesiveness than do the mainline factions of their respective parties. The paper concludes with some discussion of why this may be the case, what the future holds for outlier cohesiveness, and implications for responsible parties in the United States.
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 3, Heft 2, S. 221-242
ISSN: 1354-0688
In: Political behavior, Band 13, Heft 2, S. 165-189
ISSN: 1573-6687
In: Political behavior, Band 13, Heft 3, S. 165
ISSN: 0190-9320
In: Administrative Science Quarterly, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 273