Essays in Political Economy
Essays in Political Economy
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20250211152748
- ISBN
- 9798342109291
- DDC
- 328.1
- 서명/저자
- Essays in Political Economy
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : Stanford University, 2024
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2024
- 형태사항
- 121 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-04, Section: A.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Hall, Andy.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2024.
- 초록/해제
- 요약The following dissertation consists of three papers, bound by a common motivating question: what factors determine candidate support in US elections? In the first paper, an empirical study, I examine whether the economic enfranchisement of an historically disadvantaged group begets their future political success. In the second paper, I use a theoretical model to identify the conditions under which two electoral systems differ in their ability to deliver victory to a majority group. In the third paper, I outline a theory of partisan identification with a spatial voting model and conduct an impact evaluation to determine how platform change by one party leads to realignment among certain segments of the electorate. These papers combine state-of-the-art tools from game theory and causal inference in their investigation of the above question, and my findings carry important implications for the design of political institutions and economic policy.Rosie the Representative,presented in chapter 2, takes an historical political economy approach. Did the mass enfranchisement of women into the workplace during the Second World War yield lasting political gains? I study women running as candidates for US House seats in the postwar era and, after controlling for a host of possible confounders, I find that district-level wartime spending positively predicts their electoral performance. In general elections, women now receive higher vote shares and are more likely to win seats in places where the WPB distributed particularly generous supply contracts in the early 1940's. These effects are driven almost entirely by women who run as Democrats, and effects are much stronger in Democratic primaries than they are in Republican primaries. Group membership and partisan identity interact to predict electoral success.Are Majoritarian Runoffs Majoritarian?, presented in chapter 3, keeps an emphasis on the role of group membership in determining candidate performance. When a district is composed of two groups, a majority and a minority, what type of electoral system produces the greatest ex antechance of victory for a majoritarian candidate? Research and conventional wisdom alike suggest that majoritarian runoffs should beat plurality rule in this regard, since a second round allows the majority to coordinate on one candidate even after two candidates split the vote in the first round. I find that this logic does not always hold; my theoretical model demonstrates that plurality rule can strictly improve upon majoritarian runoffs in its equilibrium probability of majority group victory. The ability of a group to elect its candidate depends, sometimes in counterintuitive ways, on the electoral system used to elect candidates.Welfare Reform and Partisan Realignment,presented in chapter 4, considers how a major party's platform change shuffles the composition of voter coalitions and affects the electoral performance of its candidates. Did welfare reform, signed into law in 1996 by a Democratic president, represent a change in economic policy significant enough to realign voters from certain groups? My spatial voting model shows that a move toward the economic center by the Democratic party would have realigned two groups on the margin: wealthy, socioculturally liberal "cosmopolitans" and poor, socioculturally conservative "populists.".
- 일반주제명
- Political representation
- 일반주제명
- Democracy
- 일반주제명
- Elections
- 일반주제명
- Industrial engineering
- 일반주제명
- Political science
- 기타저자
- Stanford University.
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-04A.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■520 ▼aThe following dissertation consists of three papers, bound by a common motivating question: what factors determine candidate support in US elections? In the first paper, an empirical study, I examine whether the economic enfranchisement of an historically disadvantaged group begets their future political success. In the second paper, I use a theoretical model to identify the conditions under which two electoral systems differ in their ability to deliver victory to a majority group. In the third paper, I outline a theory of partisan identification with a spatial voting model and conduct an impact evaluation to determine how platform change by one party leads to realignment among certain segments of the electorate. These papers combine state-of-the-art tools from game theory and causal inference in their investigation of the above question, and my findings carry important implications for the design of political institutions and economic policy.Rosie the Representative,presented in chapter 2, takes an historical political economy approach. Did the mass enfranchisement of women into the workplace during the Second World War yield lasting political gains? I study women running as candidates for US House seats in the postwar era and, after controlling for a host of possible confounders, I find that district-level wartime spending positively predicts their electoral performance. In general elections, women now receive higher vote shares and are more likely to win seats in places where the WPB distributed particularly generous supply contracts in the early 1940's. These effects are driven almost entirely by women who run as Democrats, and effects are much stronger in Democratic primaries than they are in Republican primaries. Group membership and partisan identity interact to predict electoral success.Are Majoritarian Runoffs Majoritarian?, presented in chapter 3, keeps an emphasis on the role of group membership in determining candidate performance. When a district is composed of two groups, a majority and a minority, what type of electoral system produces the greatest ex antechance of victory for a majoritarian candidate? Research and conventional wisdom alike suggest that majoritarian runoffs should beat plurality rule in this regard, since a second round allows the majority to coordinate on one candidate even after two candidates split the vote in the first round. I find that this logic does not always hold; my theoretical model demonstrates that plurality rule can strictly improve upon majoritarian runoffs in its equilibrium probability of majority group victory. The ability of a group to elect its candidate depends, sometimes in counterintuitive ways, on the electoral system used to elect candidates.Welfare Reform and Partisan Realignment,presented in chapter 4, considers how a major party's platform change shuffles the composition of voter coalitions and affects the electoral performance of its candidates. Did welfare reform, signed into law in 1996 by a Democratic president, represent a change in economic policy significant enough to realign voters from certain groups? My spatial voting model shows that a move toward the economic center by the Democratic party would have realigned two groups on the margin: wealthy, socioculturally liberal "cosmopolitans" and poor, socioculturally conservative "populists.".
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0212.
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■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17163747▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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