Summaries tagged American Politics

• Abney and Lauth: The item veto and fiscal responsibility
• Abramowitz and Saunders: Ideological realignment in the American electorate
• Abramowitz and Segal: Beyond Willie Horton and the Pledge of Allegiance
• Abramson, Aldrich, Paolino, and Rohde: 'Sophisticated' voting in the 1988 presidential primaries
• Aldrich and Battista: Conditional party government in the states
• Aldrich, Sullivan, and Borgida: Foreign affairs and issue voting
• Alesina and Rosenthal: Partisan cycles in Congressional elections and the macroeconomy
• Alford, Funk, and Hibbing: Are political orientations genetically transmitted
• Alt and Lowry: A dynamic model of state budget outcomes under divided partisan government
• Alt and Lowry: Divided government, fiscal institutions, and budget deficits
• Ansolabehere and Iyengar: Riding the wave and claiming ownership over issues
• Ansolabehere and Jones: Constituents' Responses to Congressional Roll-Call Voting
• Ansolabehere and Konisky: The introduction of voter registration and its effect on turnout
• Ansolabehere, de Figueiredo, and Snyder: Why is there so little money in US politics
• Arceneaux and Nickerson: Who is Mobilized to Vote? A Re-Analysis of 11 Field Experiments
• Arceneaux: The federal face of voting
• Argersinger: A place on the ballot
• Arnold: The logic of Congressional action
• Asher: The learning of legislative norms
• Atkeson and Partin: Candidate Advertisemens, media coverage, and citizen attitudes
• Atkeson and Partin: Economic and referendum voting
• Atkeson and Partin: Economic and referendum voting and the problem of data choice
• Balz: Ready to Lead on Day One: Predicting Presidential Greatness from Political Experience
• Bartels: Constituency opinion and Congressional policy making
• Bartels: Messages received
• Bartels: Partisanship and voting behavior, 1952-1996
• Basinger and Lavine: Ambivalence, information, and electoral chioce
• Battista: Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. State Legislatures
• Baum and Kernell: Has cable ended the golden age of presidential television
• Baum: Talking the vote
• Bawn: Congressional party leadership
• Bawn: Political control versus expertise
• Berelson, Lazarsfeld, and McPhee: Voting
• Berinsky: The two faces of public opinion
• Berry and Berry: State lottery adoptions as policy innovations
• Binder: The partisan basis of procedural choice
• Bonneau and Rice: Impartial Judges? Race, Institutional Context, and U.S. State Supreme Courts
• Bowler and Donovan: Measuring the effect of direct democracy on state policy
• Brace, Sims-Butler, Arceneaux, and Johnson: Public opinion in the American states
• Brader: Striking a responsive chord
• Brady, Verba, and Schlozman: Beyond SES
• Brown: Gubernatorial approval and strategic entry in the 2006 elections
• Brown: Party cleavages and welfare effort in the American states
• Bryan et al: Motivating Voter Turnout by Invoking the Self
• Burden: United States Senators as presidential candidates
• Burnham: Critical elections and the mainsprings of American politics
• Burnham: Party systems and the political process
• Burnham: The Current Crisis in American Politics
• Burns, Evans, Gamm, and McConnaughy: Pockets of expertise in American state legislatures
• Cameron: Veto bargaining
• Campbell, Green, and Layman: The Party Faithful: Partisan Images, Candidate Religion, and the Electoral Impact of Party Identification
• Campbell, Converse, Miller, and Stokes: The American voter
• Canes-Wrone: The president's legislative influence from public appeals
• Carey, Moncrief, Niemi, and Powell: Term limits in the state legislatures
• Carpenter: State building through reputation building
• Carsey and Harden: New Measures of Partisanship, Ideology, and Policy Mood in the American States
• Carsey and Wright: State and national factors in gubernatorial and senatorial elections
• Carsey: Campaign dynamics
• Carson et al: The Electoral Costs of Party Loyalty in Congress
• Carson, Engstrom, and Roberts: Candidate quality, the personal vote, and the incumbency advantage in Congress
• Chandra: Why ethnic parties succeed
• Chong and Druckman: Framing Public Opinion in Competitive Democracies
• Chubb: Institutions, the economy, and the dynamics of state elections
• Clinton and Lapinski: "Targeted" advertising and voter turnout
• Conger: A Matter of Context: Christian Right Influence in U.S. State Republican Politics
• Conover and Feldman: The origins and meaning of liberal/conservative self-identifications
• Converse: The nature of belief systems in mass publics
• Cook and Gronke: The skeptical American
• Cox and Katz: Why did the incumbency advantage in U.S. House elections grow
• Cox and McCubbins: Legislative leviathan
• Cox and McCubbins: Toward a theory of legislative rules changes
• Cox, Kousser, and McCubbins: Party Power or Preferences? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from American State Legislatures
• Cox, Kousser, and McCubbins: What polarizes parties
• Crew and Weiher: Gubernatorial popularity in three states
• Dahl: Preface to democratic theory
• Dahl: The behavioral approach in political science
• Davenport: Public Accountability and Political Participation: Effects of Face-to-Face Feedback Intervention on Voter Turnout of Public Housing Residents
• De Tocqueville: Democracy in America
• Denny and Doyle: Does Voting History Matter? Analysing Persistence in Turnout
• Denzau and Munger: Legislators and interest groups
• Dewan and Myatt: The Declining Talent Pool of Government
• Dodd: Congress and the quest for power
• Dometrius: Measuring gubernatorial power
• Druckman, Kifer, and Parkin: Campaign Communications in U.S. Congressional Elections
• Ebeid and Rodden: Economic geography and economic voting
• Edwards: On deaf ears
• Elazar: American federalism
• Engstrom and Kernell: Manufactured responsiveness
• Erikson, MacKuen, and Stimson: What moves macropartisanship
• Erikson, Wright, and McIver: Statehouse democracy
• Eyestone: Confusion, diffusion, and innovation
• Feddersen, Gailmard, and Sandroni: Moral Bias in Large Elections: Theory and Experimental Evidence
• Fenno: Homestyle
• Fenno: U.S. House members in their constituencies
• Fiorina, Abrams, and Pope: The 2000 US Presidential election
• Fiorina: Parties and partisanship
• Fiorina: Parties, participation, and representation in America
• Fiorina: Retrospective Voting in American Elections
• Freedman, Franz, and Goldstein: Campaign advertising and democratic citizenship
• Frendreis and Tatalovich: A Hundred Miles of Dry: Religion and the Persistence of Prohibition in the U.S. States
• Gamm and Kousser: Broad Bills or Particularistic Policy? Historical Patterns in American State Legislatures
• Gerber and Green: Rational learning and partisan attitudes
• Gerber and Huber: Partisanship, Political Control, and Economic Assessments
• Gerber and Morton: Primary election systems and representation
• Gerber et al: Personality and Political Attitudes: Relationships across Issue Domains and Political Contexts
• Gerber, Green, and Larimer: An Experiment Testing the Relative Effectiveness of Encouraging Voter Participation by Inducing Feelings of Pride or Shame
• Gerber, Green, and Larimer: Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment
• Gerber, Green, and Shachar: Voting may be habit-forming
• Gerber: Legislative response to the threat of popular initiatives
• Gordon, Huber, and Landa: Challenger entry and voter learning
• Gray: Innovation in the states
• Green and Gerber: Introduction to Social Pressure and Voting: New Experimental Evidence
• Green and Shachar: Habit formation and political behaviour
• Green, Palmquist, and Schickler: Macropartisanship
• Guth, Kellstedt, Smidt, and Green: Religious mobilization in the 2004 presidential election
• Hamilton, Jay, and Madison: The Federalist
• Hansen: The political economy of group membership
• Hardin: Collective action
• Hartz: The liberal tradition in America
• Hero and Tolbert: A racial/ethnic diversity interpretation of politics and policy in the states of the US
• Hetherington: The effect of political trust on the presidential vote, 1968-96
• Hillygus and Jackman: Voter decision making in election 2000
• Hochschild: What's fair
• Hogan: The costs of representation in state legislatures
• Holbrook, Krosnick, Visser, and Gardner: Attitudes toward presidential candidates
• Hug and Sciarini: Referendums on European integration
• Ingberman and Yao: Presidential commitment and the veto
• Iyengar and Kinder: News that matters
• Jacobson and Kernell: Strategy and choice in Congressional elections
• Jacobson: Partisan polarization in national politics
• Jacobson: Polarized opinion in the states
• Jacobson: Polarized politics and the 2004 Congressional and presidential elections
• Jacobson: Strategic politicians and the dynamics of House elections, 1946-1986
• Jacobson: The electoral origins of divided government
• Jacobson: The politics of Congressional elections
• Johnston, Hagen, and Jamieson: Dynamics of the 2000 presidential campaign
• Jones: Partisan Polarization and Congressional Accountability in House Elections
• Kaufmann, Gimpel, and Hoffman: A promise fulfilled
• Kenney: The effect of state economic conditions on the vote for governor
• Kernell and McDonald: Congress and American political development
• Kernell: Explaining presidential popularity
• Kernell: Going public
• Kernell: Presidential popularity and negative voting
• Kernell: Rural service delivery as a critical test of alternative models of American political development
• Key: A theory of critical elections
• Key: Southern politics in state and nation
• Key: The responsible electorate
• Kiewiet and McCubbins: Appropriations decisions as a bilateral bargaining game between president and Congress
• Kiewiet and McCubbins: Presidential influence on Congressional appropriations decisions
• Kim: Partisan deadlocks and agenda-setting in American state legislatures
• Kousser: Term limits and the dismantling of state legislative professionalism
• Krehbiel: Pivotal politics
• Krehbiel: Where's the party
• Lacy: A theory of nonseparable preferences in survey responses
• Larocca and Klemanski: U.S. State Election Reform and Turnout in Presidential Elections
• Lascher, Hagen, and Rochlin: Gun behind the door
• Lau, Sigelman, Heldman, and Babbitt: The effects of negative political advertisements
• Lawrence and Bennett: Rethinking media politics and public opinion
• Leyden and Borrelli: The effect of state economic conditions on gubernatorial elections
• Lindblom: The intelligence of democracy
• Lipset: Why no socialism in the United States
• Lupia and Matsusaka: Direct democracy
• Lupia and McCubbins: The Democratic Dilemma
• Lupia, Levine, Menning, and Sin: Were Bush tax cut supporters simply ignorant
• Lupia: Busy voters, agenda control, and the power of information
• Lupia: Shortcuts versus encyclopedias
• MacDonald and Sigelman: Public assessments of gubernatorial performance
• MacKuen, Erikson, and Stimson: Macropartisanship
• Mann: Is There Backlash to Social Pressure? A Large-scale Field Experiment on Voter Mobilization
• Marshall: Turnout and representation
• Masket: No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures
• Matthews: The folkways of the Senate
• Matthews: Veto threats
• Mayhew: Congress
• Mayhew: Congressional elections
• Mayhew: Electoral realignments
• McCarty and Groseclose: The politics of blame
• McCarty: Proposal rights, veto rights, and political bargaining
• McCloskey and Brill: Dimensions of tolerance
• McCloskey and Zaller: The American Ethos
• McCubbins, Noll, and Weingast: Structure and process, politics and policy
• McDonald and Popkin: The myth of the vanishing voter
• Merrill, Grofman, and Brunell: Cycles in American National Electoral Politics, 1854-2006: Statistical Evidence and an Explanatory Model
• Miller and Krosnick: News media impact on the ingredients of presidential evaluations
• Miller and Stokes: Constituency influence in Congress
• Miller, Krosnick, and Fabrigar: The origins of policy issue salience
• Miller: Pluralism and social choice
• Mintrom: Policy entrepreneurs and the diffusion of innovation
• Moe: Congressional Controls of the Bureaucracy
• Moe: Control and feedback in economic regulation
• Moe: Interests, institutions, and positive theory
• Moe: Power and Political Institutions
• Moe: The politicized presidency
• Moe: The politics of bureaucratic structure
• Mondak et al: Personality and Civic Engagement: An Integrative Framework for the Study of Trait Effects on Political Behavior
• Mughan and Lacy: Economic performance, job insecurity, and electoral choice
• Mutz: Effects of "in-your-face" television discourse on perceptions of a legitimate opposition
• Nardulli: Political subcultures in the American states
• Neustadt: Presidential power
• New: Analyzing the Effect of Anti-Abortion U.S. State Legislation in the Post-Casey Era
• Nicholson-Crotty: Fiscal Federalism and Tax Effort in the U.S. States
• Nickerson: Is Voting Contagious? Evidence from Two Field Experiments
• Nie et al: The World Wide Web and the U.S. Political News Market
• Niemi and Jennings: Issues and inheritance in the formation of party identification
• Niemi, Stanley, and Vogel: State economies and state taxes
• Norris: Electoral engineering
• Page and Shapiro: Effects of public opinion on policy
• Page, Shapiro, and Dempsey: What moves public opinion
• Panagopoulos: Affect, Social Pressure and Prosocial Motivation: Field Experimental Evidence of the Mobilizing Effects of Pride, Shame, and Publicizing Voting Behavior
• Panagopoulos: Timing is Everything? Primacy and Recency Effects in Voter Mobilization Campaigns
• Peltzman: Economic conditions and gubernatorial elections
• Phillips: Does the Citizen Initiative Weaken Party Government in the U.S. States?
• Polsby: The consequencies of party reform
• Polsby: The institutionalization of the US House of Representatives
• Popkin, Gorman, Phillips, and Smith: Comment
• Popkin: The reasoning voter
• Quattrone and Tversky: Contrasting rational and psychological analyses of political choice
• Riker and Ordeshook: A theory of the calculus of voting
• Roberts: Political institutions, policy expectations, and the 1980 elections
• Rohde: Parties and leaders in the post-reform House
• Rohde: Risk bearing and progressive ambition
• Rosenblum: Membership and morals
• Rosenstone and Hansen: Mobilization, participation, and American democracy
• Rudolph: Who's responsible for the economy
• Savage: Policy innovativeness as a trait of American states
• Schattschneider: Party government
• Schattschneider: The semisovereign people
• Schickler and Rich: Controlling the floor
• Schickler and Rich: Party government in the House reconsidered
• Schlesinger: On the theory of party organization
• Schlozman and Verba: Unemployment, class consciousness, and radical politics
• Scholz and Wood: Controlling the IRS
• Shipan: Regulatory regimes, agency actions and the conditional nature of political influence
• Sigelman and Kugler: Why is research on the effects of negative campaigning so inconclusive
• Sinclair: Multiple paths
• Skowronek: Building a new American state
• Smith and Fridkin: Delegating Direct Democracy: Interparty Legislative Competition and the Adoption of the Initiative in the American States
• Smith: Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz
• Smith: The levels of conceptualization
• Sniderman and Hagen: Race and inequality
• Sondheimer and Green: Using Experiments to Estimate the Effects of Education on Voter Turnout
• Squire: Challenger profile and gubernatorial elections
• Stapel and Schwarz: The Republican who did not want to become president
• Stein: Economic voting for governor and U.S. Senator
• Stimson: Public opinion in America
• Theilmann and Wilhite: Campaign tactics and the decision to attack
• Thompson and Moncrief: Campaign finance in state legislative elections
• Thompson, Cassie, and Jewell: A sacred cow or just a lot of bull
• Tompkins: Have gubernatorial elections become more distinctive contests
• Tomz and Van Houweling: Candidate Positioning and Voter Choice
• Truman: The governmental process
• Turett: The vulnerability of American governors, 1900-1969
• Verba and Nie: Participation in America
• Verba, Schlozman, Brady, and Nie: Citizen activity
• Volden, Ting, and Carpenter: A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion
• Walker: The diffusion of innovations among the American states
• Walker: The origins and maintenance of interest groups in America
• Weingast and Moran: Bureaucratic discretion or Congressional control
• Weisberg, Heberlig, and Campoli: Classics in Congressional politics
• Westlye: Senate elections and campaign intensity
• Wilson: Congressional government
• Wilson: Political organizations
• Wolfinger and Rosenstone: Who votes
• Wood: Principals, bureaucrats, and responsiveness in Clean Air enforcements
• Wood: The creation of the American republic
• Wright and Schaffner: The influence of party
• Zaller and Feldman: A simple theory of the survey response
• Zaller: Monica Lewinsky's contribution to political science
• Zaller: The nature and origins of mass opinion