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Replication Data for: Primary Systems and Candidate Ideology: Evidence from Federal and State Legislative Elections
No full textReplication materials for Rogowski, Jon C., and Stephanie Langella. "Primary Systems and Candidate Ideology: Evidence from Federal and State Legislative Elections." American Politics Research
Replication Data for: Primary Systems and Candidate Ideology: Evidence from Federal and State Legislative Elections
No full textReplication materials for Rogowski, Jon C., and Stephanie Langella. "Primary Systems and Candidate Ideology: Evidence from Federal and State Legislative Elections." American Politics Research
Replication Data for: Race, Representation, and the Voting Rights Act
No full textDespite wide scholarly interest in the Voting Rights Act, surprisingly little is known about how its specific provisions affected Black political representation. In this paper, we draw on theories of electoral accountability to evaluate the effect of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the preclearance provision, on the representation of Black interests in the 86th to 105th Congresses. We find that members of Congress who represented jurisdictions subject to the preclearance requirement were substantially more supportive of civil rights-related legislation than legislators who did not represent covered jurisdictions. Moreover, we report that the effects were stronger in more competitive districts, and when Black voters comprised larger portions of the electorate. This result is robust to a wide range of model specifications and empirical strategies, and persists over the entire time period under study. Our findings have especially important implications given the Supreme Court's recent decision in Shelby v. Holder
Replication Data for: Critical Events and Attitude Change: Support for Gun Control After Mass Shootings
No full textWhen and to what extent do crises and significant events induce changes in political attitudes? Theories of public opinion and policymaking predict that major events restructure public opinion and pry open new political opportunities. We examine the effect of major events on support for public policies in the context of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in December 2012 using a nationally representative panel survey of U.S.\ adults. Across both cross-sectional and within-subject analyses, we find no evidence that Americans granted greater support for gun control after the Sandy Hook shooting. Our null findings persist across a range of political and demographic groups. We also find no evidence of attitude polarization as a result of Sandy Hook. Our results suggest that elite polarization in a particular issue area leads citizens to employ motivated reasoning when interpreting critical events, thereby reducing the capacity for attitude change. Our findings have important implications for identifying the conditions under which major events affect support for public policies and create political opportunities for policy change
Replication Data for: Critical Events and Attitude Change: Support for Gun Control After Mass Shootings
No full textWhen and to what extent do crises and significant events induce changes in political attitudes? Theories of public opinion and policymaking predict that major events restructure public opinion and pry open new political opportunities. We examine the effect of major events on support for public policies in the context of the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting in December 2012 using a nationally representative panel survey of U.S.\ adults. Across both cross-sectional and within-subject analyses, we find no evidence that Americans granted greater support for gun control after the Sandy Hook shooting. Our null findings persist across a range of political and demographic groups. We also find no evidence of attitude polarization as a result of Sandy Hook. Our results suggest that elite polarization in a particular issue area leads citizens to employ motivated reasoning when interpreting critical events, thereby reducing the capacity for attitude change. Our findings have important implications for identifying the conditions under which major events affect support for public policies and create political opportunities for policy change
Replication Data for: Voter Decison-Making with Polarized Choices
No full textNearly seventy years ago, members of the American Political Science Association's Committee on Political Parties argued that voters could exercise greater control over government if the two major political parties adopted clear and ideologically distinct policy platforms. Today, partisan polarization is a defining feature of American politics, while extreme parties have maintained support in Europe and elsewhere. This paper investigates voter decision-making with ideologically divergent electoral choices. In contrast to existing accounts, I argue that ideological conflict increases the role of motivated reasoning in political decision-making, and reduces citizens' responsiveness to candidates' ideological locations. Results from two observational studies and a survey experiment provide strong and consistent evidence in support of this account, and the findings are robust across a range of model specifications and characterizations of the key independent variables, assumptions about voter utility functions, and when accounting for alternative voter decision rules. These results have important implications for accountability and democratic decision-making in an age of partisan polarization
Replication Data for: Voter Decison-Making with Polarized Choices
No full textNearly seventy years ago, members of the American Political Science Association's Committee on Political Parties argued that voters could exercise greater control over government if the two major political parties adopted clear and ideologically distinct policy platforms. Today, partisan polarization is a defining feature of American politics, while extreme parties have maintained support in Europe and elsewhere. This paper investigates voter decision-making with ideologically divergent electoral choices. In contrast to existing accounts, I argue that ideological conflict increases the role of motivated reasoning in political decision-making, and reduces citizens' responsiveness to candidates' ideological locations. Results from two observational studies and a survey experiment provide strong and consistent evidence in support of this account, and the findings are robust across a range of model specifications and characterizations of the key independent variables, assumptions about voter utility functions, and when accounting for alternative voter decision rules. These results have important implications for accountability and democratic decision-making in an age of partisan polarization
Replication Data for: Public Opinion and Presidents' Unilateral Policy Agendas
No full textUnilateral power is an increasingly important source of policy change for contemporary presidents. In contrast with scholarship that examines the institutional constraints on presidents' exercise of unilateral authority, I consider presidents' unilateral behavior in a framework of political accountability. I argue that presidents have incentives to incorporate the public's policy priorities in their unilateral agendas. I examine this account using panel data on executive orders and public opinion across issue areas from 1954 to 2018. Across a variety of model specifications and estimation strategies, I find evidence that patterns of executive action reflect the public's policy priorities. Presidents issue greater numbers of unilateral directives on issues that gain public salience, particularly on issues that are more familiar to the public and among more policy-significant directives. These findings suggest that accountability mechanisms structure how presidents exercise unilateral power and have normative implications for considering presidential unilateralism in a separation-of-powers system
Replication Data for: Race, Representation, and the Voting Rights Act
No full textDespite wide scholarly interest in the Voting Rights Act, surprisingly little is known about how its specific provisions affected Black political representation. In this paper, we draw on theories of electoral accountability to evaluate the effect of Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, the preclearance provision, on the representation of Black interests in the 86th to 105th Congresses. We find that members of Congress who represented jurisdictions subject to the preclearance requirement were substantially more supportive of civil rights-related legislation than legislators who did not represent covered jurisdictions. Moreover, we report that the effects were stronger in more competitive districts, and when Black voters comprised larger portions of the electorate. This result is robust to a wide range of model specifications and empirical strategies, and persists over the entire time period under study. Our findings have especially important implications given the Supreme Court's recent decision in Shelby v. Holder
Replication Data for: Unilateral Inaction: Congressional Gridlock, Interbranch Conflict and Public Evaluations of Executive Power
No full textData, code, and documentation to recreate the analyses in Unilateral Inaction: Congressional Gridlock, Interbranch Conflict and Public Evaluations of Executive Power
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