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Replication Data for: Does Paying Politicians More Promote Economic Diversity in Legislatures?
No full textIf politicians in the United States were paid better, would more middle- and working-class people become politicians? Reformers often argue that the low salaries paid in state and local governments make holding office economically infeasible for lower-income citizens and contribute to the enduring numerical under-representation of the working class in our political institutions. Of course, raising politicians’ salaries could also make political office more attractive to affluent professionals, increasing competition for office and ultimately discouraging lower-income citizens from running and winning. In this paper, we test these hypotheses using data on the salaries and economic backgrounds of state legislators. Contrary to the notion that paying politicians more promotes economic diversity, we find that the descriptive representation of the working class is the same or worse in states that pay legislators higher salaries. These findings have important implications for research on descriptive representation, political compensation, and political inequality
Replication Data for: Does Paying Politicians More Promote Economic Diversity in Legislatures?
No full textIf politicians in the United States were paid better, would more middle- and working-class people become politicians? Reformers often argue that the low salaries paid in state and local governments make holding office economically infeasible for lower-income citizens and contribute to the enduring numerical under-representation of the working class in our political institutions. Of course, raising politicians’ salaries could also make political office more attractive to affluent professionals, increasing competition for office and ultimately discouraging lower-income citizens from running and winning. In this paper, we test these hypotheses using data on the salaries and economic backgrounds of state legislators. Contrary to the notion that paying politicians more promotes economic diversity, we find that the descriptive representation of the working class is the same or worse in states that pay legislators higher salaries. These findings have important implications for research on descriptive representation, political compensation, and political inequality
Replication Data for: "White Constituents and Congressional Voting"
No full textData and code to replicate all tables in figures in the main text and supplementary appendix
Replication Data for: Educational Attainment and Social Norms of Voting
No full textData and code to replicate all tables in figures in the main text and supplementary appendix
Replication Data for: Educational Attainment and Social Norms of Voting
No full textData and code to replicate all tables in figures in the main text and supplementary appendix
Replication Data for: "The Symbolic and Substantive Representation of LGB Americans in the U.S. House"
No full textCSV data, Stata code, and codebook to replicate "The Symbolic and Substantive Representation of LGB Americans in the U.S. House" by Eric Hansen and Sarah Treu
Replication Data for: "The Symbolic and Substantive Representation of LGB Americans in the U.S. House"
No full textCSV data, Stata code, and codebook to replicate "The Symbolic and Substantive Representation of LGB Americans in the U.S. House" by Eric Hansen and Sarah Treu
Replication Data for: Complexity, Resources, and Text Borrowing in State Legislatures
No full textDo states copy or reinvent language from complex policies as they diffuse, and does this depend on legislative resources? We argue that states will more frequently reinvent more complex policies, but that states with high-resource legislatures will reinvent more than their low-resource counterparts for more complex policies. We test the theory using the bill texts from 18 policies that diffused across the 50 states from 1983-2014, measuring reinvention and complexity using text analysis tools. In line with expectations, we find that complex policies are reinvented more than simple policies and that high-resource legislatures reinvent bills more than low-resource legislatures on average. However, we also find that low-resource legislatures reinvent complex policies at about the same rate as high-resource legislatures. The results indicate that even legislatures with limited resources work to adapt complex policies during the diffusion process
Replication Data for: "Inexperienced or Anti-Establishment? Voter Preferences for Outsider Congressional Candidates"
No full textReplication Data for: "Inexperienced or Anti-Establishment? Voter Preferences for Outsider Congressional Candidates." See ReadMe file for details
Replication Data for: Diversity in Party Leadership in State Legislatures
No full textMembers of historically underrepresented groups—women, African Americans, Latinos, and workers—are serving in American legislatures in increasing numbers. However, legislators wield substantially greater power in the lawmaking process when they hold leadership positions. Incorporation of these groups into leadership positions could indicate fuller political representation, but scholars to date have not assessed how well these groups are represented in leadership. We analyze original data describing the backgrounds of approximately 2,200 leaders in 30 states between 2003 and 2014. The data show that, on average across states, members of these groups are as well represented in state legislative leadership positions as they are in rank-and-file membership, but there is substantial variation across states and across parties. We then ask what factors might explain this variation and explore institutional characteristics, like the number of leadership positions or leader selection methods. The results show that legislative chambers with a higher number of leadership posts tend to have more women in leadership, and that selection through elections is associated with decreased African American presence in leadership. The findings have implications for minority incorporation and influence in American politics
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