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Counteractive Lobbying in the U.S. Supreme Court
Theories of counteractive lobbying assert that interest groups lobby for the purpose of neutralizing the advocacy efforts of their opponents. We examine the applicability of counteractive lobbying to explain interest group amicus curiae participation in the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions on the merits. Testing the counteractive lobbying hypotheses from 1953 to 2001, we provide strong support fo…
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- Vol. 37 no. 4 July 2009 pp. 670-699
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Racial Context Effects and the Political Participation of Asian Americans
In 1948, V. O. Key demonstrated how racial context influences political attitudes and behavior in the South. In more recent studies, racial linked fate and racial discrimination have been identified as powerful predictors of minority political behavior. What remains unexplored in the literature is whether race-based predictors such as these vary as a direct function of racial context and, as a …
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- Vol. 37 no. 4 July 2009 pp. 569-592
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Voter Rolloff in a Low-Information Context: Evidence From Intermediate Appell…
Hall notes that ballot rolloff in supreme court races is substantial but not random. Various institutional, election-specific, state, and district-level contextual forces lead rolloff to increase in some cases and decrease in others. However, it is not clear that Hall's findings apply to lower-level judicial elections because of the low-information environment in which those elections occur. An…
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- Vol. 37 no. 4 July 2009 pp. 644-669
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Civic Talk and Civic Participation: The Moderating Effect of Individual Predi…
Individuals who discuss politics and current events in their social network also participate in civic activities. However, analytical biases make it difficult to show a causal relationship between these two phenomena. To obtain a more accurate measurement of the effect that civic talk has on civic participation, data were collected through a panel study conducted on students who were randomly a…
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- Vol. 37 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 856-878
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Governing U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Self-Organizing and Multiplex Service Netw…
How are fragmented metropolitan areas characterized by multiple actors and multiple relationships governed? This has been a question of enduring interest in the study of local politics and policy. Recent works have made progress in understanding the emergence of self-organizing networks for individual service relationships. However, in the context of multiple service relationships, patterns of …
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- Vol. 37 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 801-823
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Party Coalitions and Interest Group Networks
We analyze affiliation networks of interest groups that endorse the same candidates in primary elections, donate to the same candidates in general elections, and voice support for the same legislative proposals. Patterns of interest group ties resemble two competing party coalitions in elections but not in legislative debate. Campaign endorsement and financial contribution ties among interest g…
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- Vol. 37 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 767-800
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The Implications of Class, Race, and Ethnicity for Political Networks
Previous research demonstrates the importance of citizens’ communication networks as an influence on their political behavior. Yet most findings are limited to samples of Whites or the interaction of Whites with their discussants. This article extends our attention to the social networks of Blacks, Latinos, Asians, and noncitizens, and explores how communication processes differ across them. Us…
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- Vol. 37 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 824-855
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Are Diverse Political Networks Always Bad for Participatory Democracy? Indiff…
Political discussions within interpersonal networks not only help communicate political information that is otherwise too costly to obtain, but they also expose people to political views that are not necessarily congruent to their own predispositions. In exploring consequences of exposure to political disagreements, existing literature finds an interesting dilemma: Although political disagreeme…
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- Vol. 37 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 879-898
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Connected Coordination: Network Structure and Group Coordination
Networks can affect a group’s ability to solve a coordination problem. We use laboratory experiments to study the conditions under which groups of participants can solve coordination games. We investigate a variety of different network structures, and we also investigate coordination games with symmetric and asymmetric payoffs. Our results show that network connections facilitate coordination i…
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- Vol. 37 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 899-920
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Competitive Assimilation or Strategic Nonassimilation?: The Political Economy…
This article tests the competitive assimilation and strategic nonassimilation models, using district-level data from Latvia. Unlike the coordination dynamic of the competitive assimilation game, the strategic nonassimilation game highlights the strategic interaction between Russian and Latvian players. Russian parents do not look to other Russian parents when deciding to send their children to …
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- Vol. 41, No. 7, July 2008. Page 947-970
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Squeaky Wheels and Unequal Policy: Executive Authority and Education Reform i…
The World Bank has been increasingly involved in reforming Latin America's education systems. However, compliance with World Bank directives varies greatly. Recent scholarship has made significant progress in fashioning an explanation for this variation by focusing on the presence of democracy. This article takes the literature a step further by identifying the mechanism by which democracy matt…
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- Vol. 41, No. 7, Page 921-946
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To Invest or Insure?: How Authoritarian Time Horizons Impact Foreign Aid Effe…
In this article, the author argues that the time horizon a dictator faces affects his incentives over the use of aid in three ways. First, dictators have a greater incentive to invest in public goods when they have a long time horizon. Second, dictators with short time horizons often face the threat of challengers to the regime; this leads them to forgo investment and instead consume state reso…
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- Vol. 41, No. 7, Page 971-1000
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Integration and the Structure of Public Spending
The voluminous tax competition literature suggests that increased economic integration leads to reduced tax rates and suboptimal levels of government spending as countries compete for mobile factors of production. Integration may influence not only the size of the government but also the structure of public spending. Comprehensive studies analyzing the effect of integration on the overall struc…
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- Vol. 41, No. 7, Page 1001-1027
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Interdependence, Density Dependence, and Networks in Politics
This article addresses the theoretical and methodological challenges that arise due to the interdependence of actors within political processes. Networks of communication and association provide a resolution to the micro—macro problem in political analysis—they provide a vehicle through which individual behavior is reciprocally connected to behavior in the aggregate. A central argument of the a…
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- Vol. 37 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 921-950
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Social Networks and American Politics: Introduction to the Special Issue
This article overviews the special issue on “Social Networks and American Politics.” The authors explain that social network analysis is a multimethod set of approaches to examining the pattern of connections that are created among individuals and institutions when they engage in their daily activities. It is especially valuable when research problems are about (a) the flow of information; (b) …
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- Vol. 37 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 727-741
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The Quantity and the Quality of Party Systems: Party System Polarization, Its…
Previous research claims that the number of parties affects the representation of social cleavages in voting behavior, election turnout, patterns of political conflict, and other party system effects. This article argues that research typically counts the quantity of parties and that often the more important property is the quality of party competition—the polarization of political parties with…
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- Vol. 41, No. 7, Page 899-920
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The Social Utility of Informal Institutions: Caucuses as Networks in the 110t…
This article challenges the existing state-of-knowledge about legislative caucuses by arguing that the caucus system reflects and reinforces formal organizing institutions, such as parties and committees, rather than counterbalancing them. We argue that legislators engage in the caucus system to maximize the social utility of their relationships. Using a social network framework, we develop and…
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- Vol. 37 no. 5 September 2009 pp. 742-766
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Ethnic Defection in Civil War
The study of ethnicity is dominated by constructivist approaches, yet empirical studies of civil war have been oblivious to their insights. In this article, the author examines the relationship between ethnic identity and civil war and points to several empirical instances of fluidity in the behavioral expression of ethnic identities within civil war. The author identifies two processes that ar…
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- Vol. 41, No. 8, August 2008. Page 1043-1068
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Political Leadership and the Emergence of Radical Mass Movements in Democracy
The perception of liberal democracy as a solidly institutionalized system in which opposition forces moderately compete with legitimate authority is so fixed that people are often surprised when mass radicalism emerges. Why, when, and how do radical mass movements emerge in pluralist (or semipluralist) political systems? The article, by linking radical action at the mass level with strategic ch…
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- Vol. 41, No. 8, Page 1117-1140
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Adopting Direct Democracy: Tests of Competing Explanations of Institutional C…
Why was direct democracy adopted in some U.S. states and not others? In this article, we sort through the various arguments advanced in the predominantly historical literature by using event history analysis. Among other factors we identify the importance of popular support for Populists and Socialists as well as the constraints imposed by state constitutions. We also find that the demographic …
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- Vol. 37, No. 6, November 2009.pp. 1024-1047
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