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I choose you! Interest group endorsements in the 2018 US House midterm elections
In 2018, the interest group EMILY’s List endorsed over fifty women running for the US Congress, a list that is far from inclusive of the almost...
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PACs Rule Everything Around Me: How Political Action Committees Shape Elections and Policy in the Local Context
The vast majority of research on interest groups tends to focus on the state and national levels (Baumgartner et al. 2009; Bergan 2009; Kollman 1998;...
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PACs rule everything around me: how political action committees shape elections and policy in the local context
The vast majority of research on interest groups tends to focus on the state and national levels (Baumgartner et al. 2009; Bergan 2009; Kollman 1998,...
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Party Foul: The Effectiveness of Political Value Rhetoric is Constrained by Party Ownership
Politicians use political value rhetoric to win elections or persuade constituents towards policy positions, but the effectiveness of this rhetoric...
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Elites Have Their Say (with Clifford Vickery)
This chapter explores how party elites shaped candidate prospects during the pre-primary period. We describe how the Democratic National Committee...
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Foreign support does not mean sway for illiberal nationalist regimes: Putin sympathy, Russian influence, and Trump foreign policy in the Balkans
New information technologies increasingly allow autocrats to shape public opinion outside their borders. Regimes like Russia and China spend millions...
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Teachers’ Unions and School Board Elections: A Reassessment
Drawing on an original data set of over 4000 teacher-union endorsements in local school board elections, I make three contributions to the literature...
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The Role of Donald Trump in the 2022 Republican Congressional Primaries
This chapter considers how Donald Trump influenced the 2022 Republican primaries. It describes how Republican Party primaries have evolved in recent...
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Teachers’ unions and school board elections: a reassessment
Drawing on an original data set of over 4000 teacher-union endorsements in local school board elections, I make three contributions to the literature...
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Policy Objective of Military Intervention and Public Attitudes: A Conjoint Experiment from US and Turkey
This paper scrutinizes the role of the principal policy objective of military intervention in conditioning citizen attitudes for the use of force....
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Gender and the 2020 Democratic Primary: An Analysis of the Warren/Sanders Battle for the Leftwing of the Democratic Party
This chapter examines the gender dynamics among the two prominent candidates who were vying to represent the progressive faction within the...
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In Party We Trust? Voter Support for Party-Backed Candidates in Primary Elections
When parties decide, do voters listen? We argue that the answer depends on voters’ trust in the institutions of American politics. Using both a...
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Party people? Measuring interest groups’ proximity to political parties
Research suggests that single-issue groups and labor unions have been incorporated into one of the two US party coalitions (Karol in American...
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Superior endorsement and bureaucratic compliance in China’s environmental enforcement
The influence of politics in policy implementation is a widespread global phenomenon, but bureaucratic responses to it remain understudied. This...
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The 2020 Campaign: Candidates in a New World
This chapter examines political marketing in the 2020 elections through what Andrew Yang would call the math. Despite all the Democratic primary’s...
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The Normative Awkwardness of Pakistan
Pakistani scholars have long struggled to understand the type of power that Pakistan is. Theoretical insights into its position in the international...
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The Invisible Hand
Joe Biden had no business winning the 2020 presidential election. He confronted a host of seemingly insurmountable obstacles that would have derailed...
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Talking Trump: An Assessment of Trumpian Rhetorical Cues Among Trump Endorsees in the 2022 Congressional Elections
Political scientists Calfano and Djupe’s work focuses on the concept of “God Talk.” This term is defined as “the religious communication of political...
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Interest Groups in US Local Politics: Introduction to the Special Issue
Interest group scholarship has so far focused mainly on national politics and has had very little to say about interest groups in American cities,...
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An Experiential Approach to Teaching the Importance of the Iowa Caucuses
Every four years Americans across the country pay close attention to the decisions made by the voters of Iowa. On caucus day, these voters head out...