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Within and Between Parties: Agendas and Influence in the Legislature.

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Within and Between Parties: Agendas and Influence in the Legislature./
作者:	Erickson, Mackenzie H.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
面頁冊數:	160 p.
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-04A.
標題:	Political science. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30788403
ISBN:	9798380596565

Within and Between Parties: Agendas and Influence in the Legislature.
Erickson, Mackenzie H.

Within and Between Parties: Agendas and Influence in the Legislature. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 160 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-04, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Ohio State University, 2023.

A large body of research points to evidence that the U.S. is in an era of strong party government, characterized by internally homogenous and externally heterogeneous parties. In a three article dissertation, I find that parties are not invariably strong and polarized. The first chapter finds evidence of surprising patterns of bipartisanship in state legislatures. The second chapter develops a methodology and produces a data set of scores reflecting members' influence in their party's constituent communication. The third chapter uses those scores to test whether party influence extends beyond formal legislative activities.Article 1: Elite polarization has increased over recent decades, with some scholars questioning whether bipartisanship remains possible. However, it is not clear that this process is homogenous. Bipartisanship depends, at least in part, on the lobbying behavior of interest groups. Lobbying behavior, in turn, is influenced by the type of proposed policy. With redistributive policies, potential winners and losers align their conflict with opposing political parties making bipartisanship unlikely. With distributive policies however, rent-seeking interest groups are incentivized to lobby both parties to maximize their rents which increases the likelihood of bipartisanship. I test these predictions with a novel data set of all environmental policy bills proposed in state legislatures between 2008 and 2020 and find support for the hypothesis. Renewable energy policy, a rent-seeking policy type, has significantly higher levels of bipartisanship than climate change policy, a redistribution-seeking policy type.Article 2: Almost all legislative members are influenced by their party's leadership and the behavior of other members of their party. The degree of influence wielded by the party has been researched extensively with regard to voting behavior, but little effort has been made to understand whether this influence extends to other important behaviors members exhibit. Like floor votes, constituent communication plays an important role in shaping a party's brand and its electoral outcomes, yet the role of the party in what members choose to communicate about is largely unknown. This chapter develops a novel methodology to measure communication influence among elite partisans. Using the content and timing of all press releases published by House members between 2013 and 2020, I model the diffusion of communication choices through the party network. The result is a new data set of influence scores that can be used to extend the study of party influence outside of the formal legislative process. These scores create the ability to test the scope of our dominant theories of party power, and they allow for new insights into our understanding of constituent communication and political influence.Article 3: Scholars have traditionally conceived of constituent communication as an independent exercise, relatively free of party influence. However, the current landscape of highly-competitive and nationalized parties creates a strong incentive for both party members and their leaders to communicate a unified party brand. Party influence and cue-taking are well-documented within the formal legislative process, but scholars have little understanding about the degree to which they shape the communication behaviors of House members. Using a novel data set of communication influence scores, this chapter tests which member characteristics are associated with higher influence and finds that many of our theories from the formal legislative process also apply to constituent communication. Party and committee leaders, ideological moderates, and members with high legislative effectiveness scores are all more likely to be influential in messaging. The findings suggest a potential need to reevaluate how constituent communication choices are conceived, measured, and researched in order to understand how internal politics are shaping the collective party brand.

ISBN: 9798380596565Subjects--Topical Terms:

528916
Political science.
Subjects--Index Terms:

American politics

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