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Interest Groups and State Legislative Polarization- [electronic resource]
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Interest Groups and State Legislative Polarization- [electronic resource]
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문파일 국외
- 최종처리일시
- 20240214100446
- ISBN
- 9798379613051
- DDC
- 320
- 서명/저자
- Interest Groups and State Legislative Polarization - [electronic resource]
- 발행사항
- [S.l.]: : Harvard University., 2023
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,, 2023
- 형태사항
- 1 online resource(151 p.)
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Snyder, James M., Jr.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2023.
- 사용제한주기
- This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The Democratic and Republican parties in the US states have grown apart ideologically over the past several decades as the national parties have similarly diverged. Despite having implications for both governance and the overall health of US democracy, polarization in the states remains much less well-understood than polarization in Washington. This dissertation employs two sources of data relating to interest group activity on the state level-machine-learning classifications of groups based on their contributions to candidates for state legislative office and group ratings of individual legislators on different issues-to provide new information on the extent and nature of state legislative polarization and to assess the influence that organized groups exert on this process.In the first paper, I develop and implement a machine-learning model that utilizes campaign finance data to determine the degree to which groups behave in an ideological manner, showing that this approach results in stable classifications that align with theoretical expectations and finding that conventional methods substantially understate the amount of ideological group involvement in state legislative elections. Using the results of this model, in the second paper I demonstrate that ideological group activity in state elections is positively and robustly associated with polarization, providing evidence that interest groups have played a role in state legislative polarization over the past several decades. Finally, in the third paper I analyze group scorecards grading state legislators on their roll-call voting behavior to determine that although polarization has occurred in most issue areas, the parties have moved furthest apart most quickly on a cluster of issues relating to family roles and the place of religion in public life. Taken together, these papers advance our understanding of the nature and causes of partisan polarization in contemporary state legislatures.
- 일반주제명
- Political science.
- 일반주제명
- Public administration.
- 키워드
- Campaign finance
- 키워드
- Interest groups
- 키워드
- Polarization
- 키워드
- State politics
- 기타저자
- Harvard University Government
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 84-12B.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertation Abstract International
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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