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Replication Data for: Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785-1868
No full textThis article offers a new perspective on the history of American democratization, tracing the evolution of conflict over black suffrage from the heatedly contested disenfranchisements of the early Republic to the sustained efforts to secure equal voting rights in the pre-Civil War era. It draws on new data on state politics, as well as extensive case studies, to substantially expand our descriptive understanding of the ideological and partisan connotations of African American political rights, providing the first systematic empirical account of the development of partisans’ positions before the Civil War. In contrast to existing literature, it identifies a previously undocumented transformation in how legislator positions on black suffrage polarized along party lines. It also offers a new interpretation for this racial realignment. It presents evidence that the thousands of individual legislators who voted on the issue were responding less to the potential electoral consequences of black voting than to competing efforts of party leaders and social movements to frame the denial of free black suffrage as necessary for national unity, a necessary accommodation to racist white public opinion, or as complicity in human slavery and a violation of republican equality. Integrating the earlier period of disenfranchisement and antislavery activism recasts standard party-driven accounts of the extension of voting rights during Reconstruction as the culmination of a long process of biracial social movement organizing, enriching our understanding of how both electoral and programmatic concerns contribute to suffrage reforms. Its account of partisan polarization over race provides us with a deeper grasp of how white supremacy was established and contested in American history, and of the process by which conflict over the boundaries and meaning of citizenship has at times become a central cleavage in American politics
Replication Data for: Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy
No full textThese are the files required to replicate the analyses in "Democratization in the USA? The Impact of Antebellum Suffrage Qualifications on Politics and Policy
Replication Data for: Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery
No full textThe associated files allow for replication of the Figures and Tables in Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery, by David Bateman and Eric Schickler
Replication Data for: Partisan Polarization on Black Suffrage, 1785-1868
No full textThis article offers a new perspective on the history of American democratization, tracing the evolution of conflict over black suffrage from the heatedly contested disenfranchisements of the early Republic to the sustained efforts to secure equal voting rights in the pre-Civil War era. It draws on new data on state politics, as well as extensive case studies, to substantially expand our descriptive understanding of the ideological and partisan connotations of African American political rights, providing the first systematic empirical account of the development of partisans’ positions before the Civil War. In contrast to existing literature, it identifies a previously undocumented transformation in how legislator positions on black suffrage polarized along party lines. It also offers a new interpretation for this racial realignment. It presents evidence that the thousands of individual legislators who voted on the issue were responding less to the potential electoral consequences of black voting than to competing efforts of party leaders and social movements to frame the denial of free black suffrage as necessary for national unity, a necessary accommodation to racist white public opinion, or as complicity in human slavery and a violation of republican equality. Integrating the earlier period of disenfranchisement and antislavery activism recasts standard party-driven accounts of the extension of voting rights during Reconstruction as the culmination of a long process of biracial social movement organizing, enriching our understanding of how both electoral and programmatic concerns contribute to suffrage reforms. Its account of partisan polarization over race provides us with a deeper grasp of how white supremacy was established and contested in American history, and of the process by which conflict over the boundaries and meaning of citizenship has at times become a central cleavage in American politics
Replication Data for: Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery
No full textThe associated files allow for replication of the Figures and Tables in Deeper Roots: Historical Causal Inference and the Political Legacy of Slavery, by David Bateman and Eric Schickler
Replication Data for: A House Divided? Roll Calls, Polarization, and Policy Differences in the U.S. House, 1877–2011
No full textStudying political conflict in legislatures is necessary for understanding many issues related to governance, but changes in who serves and what is debated creates difficulties for characterizing that conflict over time. Focusing on the enduring issue of civil rights in the U.S. since Reconstruction, we show that current methods and measures used to characterize elite ideological disagreements are hard to interpret and/or reconcile with widely accepted historical accounts because of their failure to adequately account for the policies being voted upon and the consequences of the iterative lawmaking process. Incorporating information about the policies being voted provides a starkly different portrait of elite conflict -- not only are contemporary parties relatively less divided than is commonly thought, but the conflict occurs in a smaller, and more liberal, portion of the policy space. In addition to revising commonly held beliefs about the nature of elite conflict occurring since Reconstruction, our argument also highlights several substantive and methodological issues with using measures based on elite behavior to compare political conflict and polarization across time
Replication Data for: A House Divided? Roll Calls, Polarization, and Policy Differences in the U.S. House, 1877–2011
No full textStudying political conflict in legislatures is necessary for understanding many issues related to governance, but changes in who serves and what is debated creates difficulties for characterizing that conflict over time. Focusing on the enduring issue of civil rights in the U.S. since Reconstruction, we show that current methods and measures used to characterize elite ideological disagreements are hard to interpret and/or reconcile with widely accepted historical accounts because of their failure to adequately account for the policies being voted upon and the consequences of the iterative lawmaking process. Incorporating information about the policies being voted provides a starkly different portrait of elite conflict -- not only are contemporary parties relatively less divided than is commonly thought, but the conflict occurs in a smaller, and more liberal, portion of the policy space. In addition to revising commonly held beliefs about the nature of elite conflict occurring since Reconstruction, our argument also highlights several substantive and methodological issues with using measures based on elite behavior to compare political conflict and polarization across time
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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