Gaming Direct Democracy: How Voters’ Views Of Job Performance Interact With Elite Endorsements Of Ballot Measures,
2013
Duke Law School
Gaming Direct Democracy: How Voters’ Views Of Job Performance Interact With Elite Endorsements Of Ballot Measures, Craig M. Burnett, Mathew D. Mccubbins
Faculty Scholarship
Voters are thought to rely on elite endorsements in helping them make decisions. Their ability to use these endorsements is especially important in direct democracy, since ballot measures are complex policy proposals that lack partisan cues printed on the ballot. Using an exit survey, we look at California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s endorsement of four Indian gaming measures on the ballot during the presidential primary election of 2008. We find that voters who had knowledge of the elite endorsement differed little from those who did not. We show, however, that Schwarzenegger’s endorsement was conditionally related to support for the measures, depending …
Coder Reliability And Misclassification In The Human Coding Of Party Manifestos,
2012
Singapore Management University
Coder Reliability And Misclassification In The Human Coding Of Party Manifestos, Slava Mikhaylov, Michael Laver, Kenneth Benoit
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
The Comparative Manifesto Project (CMP) provides the only time series of estimated party policy positions in political science and has been extensively used in a wide variety of applications. Recent work (e.g., Benoit, Laver, and Mikhaylov 2009; Klingemann et al. 2006) focuses on nonsystematic sources of error in these estimates that arise from the text generation process. Our concern here, by contrast, is with error that arises during the text coding process since nearly all manifestos are coded only once by a single coder. First, we discuss reliability and misclassification in the context of hand-coded content analysis methods. Second, we …
Participation, Representation, And Social Justice: Using Participatory Governance To Transform Representative Democracy,
2012
Boise State University
Participation, Representation, And Social Justice: Using Participatory Governance To Transform Representative Democracy, Brian Wampler
Political Science Faculty Publications and Presentations
The direct incorporation of citizens into complex policymaking processes is the most significant innovation of the "third wave" of democratization in the developing world. Participatory governance (PG) institutions are part of a new institutional architecture that increases the connections among citizens and government officials. This article draws from a single case of participatory governance to explore how its particular mechanisms work to transform representative democracy. In the cases examine here, PG institutions are grafted onto representative democracy and existing state institutions. These are state-sanctioned venues that require the intense involvement of citizens and government officials, without which the programs would …
Natural Sentences As Valid Units For Coded Political Texts,
2012
Singapore Management University
Natural Sentences As Valid Units For Coded Political Texts, Thomas Daubler, Kenneth Benoit, Slava Mikhaylov, Michael Laver
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
A rapidly growing area in political science has focused on perfecting techniques to treat politicaltext as ‘data’, usually for the purposes of estimating latent traits such as left–right political policypositions.1 More traditional approaches have applied classical content analysis to categorize sub-unitsof political text, such as sentences in manifestos. Prominent examples of this latter approach includethe thirty-year old Comparative Manifestos Project and the Policy Agendas Project.2 ‘Text as data’approaches use machines to convert text to quantitative information and use statistical tools to makeinferences about characteristics of the author of the text. Content analysis schemes use humans to readtextual sub-units and assign …
How To Scale Coded Text Units Without Bias: A Response To Gemenis,
2012
Singapore Management University
How To Scale Coded Text Units Without Bias: A Response To Gemenis, Kenneth Benoit, Michael Laver, Will Lowe, Slava Mikhaylov
Research Collection School of Social Sciences
Coding non-manifesto documents as if they were genuine policy platforms produced at election time clearly raises serious issues with error when these codings are used in the standard manner to estimate left-right policy positions. In addition to the long term solution of improving the document base of the Manifesto Project identified by Gemenis (2012), we argue that immediate gains in manifesto-based estimates of policy positions can be realised by using the confrontational logit scales from Lowe et al. (2011), which addresses the problems of scale content and scale construction that are exacerbated by but not unique to the problems found …
Research On Factors Affecting Thai Manufacturer Deal With Supply Chain Disruption Toward Decentralization,
2012
World Maritime University
Research On Factors Affecting Thai Manufacturer Deal With Supply Chain Disruption Toward Decentralization, Supasiri Songsiridej
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Research On Risk Management Of Ship Financial Leasing In Cimc Financial Leasing Company,
2012
World Maritime University
Research On Risk Management Of Ship Financial Leasing In Cimc Financial Leasing Company, Zhangcheng Shi
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Study On Optimal Dwell Time At Jakarta International Container Terminal,
2012
World Maritime University
Study On Optimal Dwell Time At Jakarta International Container Terminal, Siti Nurrochmah Badrudin
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Freight Forecasting Of Dry Bulk Market Based On The Bp Neural Network,
2012
World Maritime University
Freight Forecasting Of Dry Bulk Market Based On The Bp Neural Network, Qianran Huang
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Customer Value Evaluation In X Logistics Enterprise,
2012
World Maritime University
Customer Value Evaluation In X Logistics Enterprise, Yifan Wang
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Rationality Study On Capacity Allocation For Cscl’S Asia-Europe Route,
2012
World Maritime University
The Rationality Study On Capacity Allocation For Cscl’S Asia-Europe Route, Yan Zhou
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Financial Feasibility Analysis Of Ship Sale-Leaseback Base On Excel Model,
2012
World Maritime University
Financial Feasibility Analysis Of Ship Sale-Leaseback Base On Excel Model, Xi Lin
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Container-Handling Operation Optimization At Koja Container Terminal,
2012
World Maritime University
Container-Handling Operation Optimization At Koja Container Terminal, Moh Taufik Hidayat
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Impact Of Northern Sea Route On China’S Shipping Industry,
2012
World Maritime University
The Impact Of Northern Sea Route On China’S Shipping Industry, Minyu Tang
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Research On The Fluctuation Ship Price In New-Building Market,
2012
World Maritime University
Research On The Fluctuation Ship Price In New-Building Market, Tianhang Xiao
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
The Application Of Shipping Freight Derivatives For Evading Risk In The Capesize Shipping Market,
2012
World Maritime University
The Application Of Shipping Freight Derivatives For Evading Risk In The Capesize Shipping Market, Jiayi Zheng
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Extendsim-Based Research On Transport Process Optimization Of Emergency Cold-Chain Logistics,
2012
World Maritime University
Extendsim-Based Research On Transport Process Optimization Of Emergency Cold-Chain Logistics, Ran Zhang
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Study On Site Selection Of Dalian Dry Port Group,
2012
World Maritime University
Study On Site Selection Of Dalian Dry Port Group, Shabai Zhu
World Maritime University Dissertations
No abstract provided.
Developing A Georgia Policy Database: A Research Proposal,
2012
University of West Georgia
Developing A Georgia Policy Database: A Research Proposal, Paul E. Rutledge
Georgia Journal of Public Policy
Scholars of state and local politics have long faced the problem of data availability. The crux of the problem is consistent and reliable measures that are amenable analysis over time or across states. The problem with data on the state or local level is one of information retrieval. Such tasks are especially laborious, and are necessarily focused on a small part of a much broader system of policy dynamics. The lack of a systematic framework for data collection or analysis makes projects that focus on a time span of longer than a few years or more than a handful of …
Spring 2012 Georgia Journal Of Public Policy - Introduction,
2012
Kennesaw State University
Spring 2012 Georgia Journal Of Public Policy - Introduction, Dr. Richard N. Engstrom
Georgia Journal of Public Policy
This is the second volume of the annual Georgia Journal of Public Policy, and as the editor I would like to use these introductory comments to discuss three things. First, I am happy to report on how the journal’s first issue performed in terms of readership. Second, I will introduce a new section of the journal that features undergraduate student research on policy in Georgia. Finally, I will discuss future plans for the journal.
