Dynamic Democracy

Dynamic Democracy

Public Opinion, Elections, and Policymaking in the American States

Caughey, Devin; Warshaw, Christopher

The University of Chicago Press

11/2022

248

Dura

Inglês

9780226822204

15 a 20 dias

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1. Introduction
1.1 Plan of the Book
2 Measurement: Public Opinion and State Policy
2.1 The Challenge of Measurement
2.2 Data and Measures
2.2.1 Policy and Survey Data
2.2.2 Measures of State Policy and Mass Preferences
2.3 Summary
2.A Technical Appendix on Measurement Models
2.A.1 Issue-Specific Opinion
2.A.2 Ideological Summarization
2.A.3 Commonalities among the Ideological Models
3 Preferences: Partisanship and Ideology in State Publics
3.1 Partisan and Ideological Trends in the States
3.1.1 Partisanship
3.1.2 Ideology
3.1.3 Evolution and Stability
3.2 The Alignment of Ideology and Partisanship
3.3 The Ideological Nationalization of Partisanship
3.4 Summary
4 Policies: The Outputs of State Government
4.1 Trends in State Policy Ideology
4.2 Policy, Preferences, and Party
5 Parties: The Policy Effects of Party Control
5.1 Theoretical Framework
5.2 Policy Effects of Party Control
5.3 Regression Discontinuity Estimates
5.4 Dynamic Panel Estimates
5.5 How Much Does Party Control Matter?
5.6 Summary
6 Elections: Selection, Incentives, and Feedback
6.1 Selection and Incentives
6.2 National Tides and Partisanship
6.3 Partisan Selection
6.4 Candidate Positioning and Electoral Success
6.5 Collective Accountability and Negative Feedback
6.5.1 Electoral Feedback
6.6 Summary
7 Responsiveness: The Public's Influence on State Policies
7.1 Operationalizing Responsiveness
7.2 Position Responsiveness
7.3 Policy Responsiveness
7.3.1 Heterogeneity: Era and Region
7.3.2 Mechanisms: Turnover versus Adaptation
7.3.3 Cumulative Responsiveness
7.4 Summary
8 Proximity: The Match between Preferences and Policies
8.1 Data on Policy-Specific Representation
8.2 Policy Bias
8.3 Policy Proximity
8.3.1 The Dynamics of Policy Proximity
8.4 Summary
9 Deficits: Gaps in American Democracy
9.1 The Jim Crow South
9.1.1 Racial Disparities in Representation
9.2 Legislative Malapportionment
9.3 Partisan Gerrymandering
9.4 Summary
10 Reforms: Improving American Democracy
10.1 Background on Institutional Reforms
10.1.1 Citizen Governance
10.1.2 Voting
10.1.3 Money in Politics
10.1.4 Labor Unions
10.2 The Effects of Institutional Reforms
10.3 Summary
11 Conclusion
11.1 Normative Implications
11.2 Prospects for Reform
11.3 Whither State Politics?
11.4 Implications for Future Research
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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democracy;representation;public opinion;state politics;policy;American politics