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Vox Populi, Vox Dei? Crowdsourced Ideal Point Estimation
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 281-295
ISSN: 1468-2508
Vox Populi, Vox Dei? Crowdsourced Ideal Point Estimation
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 78, Heft 1, S. 281-295
ISSN: 0022-3816
Weighing the Alternatives: Preferences, Parties, and Constituency in Roll-Call Voting
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 77, Heft 2, S. 421-432
ISSN: 1468-2508
Weighing the Alternatives: Preferences, Parties, and Constituency in Roll-Call Voting
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 77, Heft 2, S. 421-432
ISSN: 0022-3816
Bringing the minority back to the party: An informational theory of majority and minority parties in Congress
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 132-150
ISSN: 0951-6298
Bringing the minority back to the party: An informational theory of majority and minority parties in Congress
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 27, Heft 1, S. 132-150
ISSN: 1460-3667
Scholars of Congress and other legislative institutions have posited that majority agenda-setting is one of the primary mechanisms by which a majority party demonstrates its power over legislation. However, this line of work has difficulty explaining why the floor median would delegate such power to the majority. In this paper, I develop a theory of lawmaking in an incomplete-information environment. The model allows for information transmission through both majority agenda-setting and minority speech making. This is one of the first models of parties in Congress that allows for the minority to have an active and vital role. Comparative statics show that, for a wide set of parameter values, the institutional arrangement proposed is optimal for the floor median when compared to strict majoritarian and minority-free settings.
Bringing the Minority back to the Party: An Informational Theory of Majority and Minority Parties in Congress
In: Journal of Theoretical Politics, Band 27, S. 132-150
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Weighing the Alternatives: Preferences, Parties, and Constituency in Roll Call Voting
In: APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
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The Grapes of Path Dependence: The Long-Run Political Impact of the Dust Bowl Migration
In: Journal of historical political economy: JHPE, Band 1, Heft 4, S. 531-559
ISSN: 2693-9304
When Loyalty Is Tested: Do Party Leaders Use Committee Assignments as Rewards?
In: Congress & the presidency, Band 45, Heft 1, S. 41-65
ISSN: 1944-1053
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Early investments in state capacity promote persistently higher levels of social capital
Social capital has been shown to positively influence a multitude of economic, political, and social outcomes. Yet the factors that affect long-run social capital formation remain poorly understood. Recent evidence suggests that early state formation, especially investments in state capacity, are positively associated with higher levels of contemporary social capital and other prosocial attitudes. The channels by which early state capacity leads to greater social capital over time are even less understood. We contribute to both questions using the spatial and temporal expansion of the US postal network during the 19th century. We first show that county-level variation in post office density is highly correlated with a bevy of historical and contemporary indicators of social capital (e.g., associational memberships, civic participation, health, and crime). This finding holds even when controlling for historical measures of development and contemporary measures of income, inequality, poverty, education, and race. Second, we provide evidence of an informational mechanism by which this early investment in infrastructural capacity affected long-run social capital formation. Namely, we demonstrate that the expansion of the postal network in the 19th century strongly predicts the historical and contemporary location of local newspapers, which were the primary mode of impersonal information transmission during this period. Our evidence sheds light on the role of the state in both the origins of social capital and the channels by which it persists. Our findings also suggest that the consequences of the ongoing decline in local newspapers will negatively affect social capital.
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