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Ten Years After The Revolution: 1994 And Partisan Control Of Government, Shannon Jenkins, Douglas D. Roscoe, John Frendreis, Alan R. Gitelson
Ten Years After The Revolution: 1994 And Partisan Control Of Government, Shannon Jenkins, Douglas D. Roscoe, John Frendreis, Alan R. Gitelson
Shannon Jenkins
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The Impact Of Party And Ideology On Roll Call Voting In State Legislatures, Shannon Jenkins
The Impact Of Party And Ideology On Roll Call Voting In State Legislatures, Shannon Jenkins
Shannon Jenkins
To assess the relative impact of party and ideology on legislative behavior, I utilize survey-based measures of legislator ideology to examine voting in five state legislatures. The results suggest that, although party and ideology both influence voting, the impact of party is greater. The magnitude of this impact varies, however, from chamber to chamber. The activity of parties in the electoral arena explains part of this variance, with more active parties having more influence. Thus, research on legislative behavior should focus on the context surrounding the decision-making process in order for us to understand the influences on voting.
Thinking Outside The Quality Box: The Impact Of Candidate Motivations On Election Outcomes, Doug D. Roscoe, Shannon Jenkins, John Frendreis, Alan Gitelson
Thinking Outside The Quality Box: The Impact Of Candidate Motivations On Election Outcomes, Doug D. Roscoe, Shannon Jenkins, John Frendreis, Alan Gitelson
Shannon Jenkins
Explanations for election outcomes have commonly included incumbency and candidate quality. While these explanations have been successful, they do not wholly explain who wins or loses. To move beyond the concepts of incumbency and quality, a typology of candidates is developed based on their motivations for running. Hierarchical cluster analysis is employed to examine open-ended responses from state legislative candidates in nine states. The resulting typologies are found to be connected to influences on candidate emergence and perceptions of factors that influenced the election outcome. They also prove to be statistically significant predictors of election victory even when controlling for …