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Agenda Control in the 2008 Presidential Debates 26 Aug 2013 | 03:26 pm
Research indicates that, when engaging their opponents, strategic candidates will draw (and redraw) lines of conflict, pulling attention to their advantaged topics. But do these expectations hold up i...
Mobilizing Money: Political Action Committees and Political Participation 26 Aug 2013 | 03:26 pm
A great deal of research focuses on contributions by political action committees (PACs) to candidates, but PACs are also institutional mechanisms for mobilizing contributions by individuals. Restricti...
State Coordinating Institutions and Agenda Setting on the U.S. Supreme Court 26 Aug 2013 | 03:26 pm
What determines state success when petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court for review? We suggest that states can improve the likelihood of securing Supreme Court review by coordinating litigation efforts....
Taking a New Perspective to Latino Racial Attitudes: Examining the Impact of Skin Tone on Latino Perceptions of Commonality with Whites and Blacks 26 Aug 2013 | 03:26 pm
Recent research has taken note of the steadfast growth of the Latino population in the United States by examining Latino attitudes toward those commonly identified as nonimmigrants, Whites and Blacks....
The (Dis)Connection Between Political Culture and External Efficacy 26 Aug 2013 | 03:26 pm
Theories of political culture have traditionally been based on how the mass public views the role of government, yet scholars have rarely studied this issue. Using American National Election Studies(A...
Americans' Attitudes About the Senate Filibuster 26 Aug 2013 | 03:26 pm
We examine public attitudes about one of the most visible procedural features of Congress, the Senate’s filibuster and cloture practice. We measure the stability of those attitudes during an important...
Political Conditions and the Electoral Effects of Redistricting 28 Jun 2013 | 03:23 pm
Redistricting can have considerable electoral consequences because it undermines the incumbency advantage. Numerous voters are drawn into districts with a different incumbent seeking reelection. With ...
Legislator Wealth and the Effort to Repeal the Estate Tax 28 Jun 2013 | 03:23 pm
We relate legislators’ financial assets to their roll call voting on, and cosponsorship of, legislation to permanently repeal or significantly reduce the Estate Tax in the 109th Congress. Even after a...
Adjudicatory Oversight and Judicial Decision Making in Executive Branch Agencies 28 Jun 2013 | 03:23 pm
Adjudications are an important, though understudied, means through which administrative agencies create policies that have a lasting impact. We argue that executive branch agency heads utilize their o...
Political Inclusion of Latino Immigrants: Becoming a Citizen and Political Participation 28 Jun 2013 | 03:23 pm
Does becoming a citizen represent a major step toward the inclusion of Latino immigrants in the American polity? I study this question by comparing the behavior of immigrants who have acquired citizen...
