Conference Papers
12th Annual State Politics and Policy Conference Papers
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Friday
Session 1 Panels: 8:30 – 10:15 a.m.
Panel 1: Roundtable on Redistricting – ICF
Chair: Gary Moncrief (gmoncri@boisestate.edu)
Participants: John Alford (jra@rice.edu), Charles Bullock (cbullock@uga.edu), Jason Casellas (casellas@mail.utexas.edu), Karin Mac Donald (karin@cain.berkeley.edu), and Jonathan Winburn (jwinburn@olemiss.edu)
Panel 2: Policy Diffusion and Agenda Setting – FW
Chair: Greg Weiher (GWeiher@uh.edu)
Andrew Karch (ajkarch@umn.edu) and Lilliard Richardson (richardsonle@missouri.edu): “Multiple Dimensions of Reform: Regulation, Punishment and Highway Safety Laws”
Frederick J. Boehmke (frederick-boehmke@uiowa.edu) and Paul Skinner (paul-skinner@uiowa.edu): “Beyond Contiguity: Patterns in the Diffusion of Policies across the American States”
Julianna Pacheco (jpacheco@umich.edu) and Graeme Boushey (gboushey@umich.edu): “Agenda Setting in the American States: Determinants of State Legislative Attention to Tobacco Control and Vaccine Regulation” Pacheco and Boushey Supplemental Text
James W. Stoutenborough (jstoutenborough@bushschool.tamu.edu) and Douglas R. Oxley (doxley@bushschool.tamu.edu): “Improving the Likelihood of Successful Policy Outcomes: A Theory of Policy Diffusion Policy Analysis”
Discussants: Virginia Gray (vagray@email.unc.edu) and Elizabeth Rigby (erigby@gwu.edu)
Panel 3: The Impact of Early Voting and Vote Centers – B3F
Chair: Kevin Arceneuax (kevin.arceneaux@temple.edu)
Johanna Dunaway (dunaway@lsu.edu) and Robert M. Stein (stein@rice.edu): “The Effects of Early Voting on Electoral Campaigns”
Christopher B. Mann (cmann@miami.edu): “When Election Day is Two Weeks Long: Field Experiments on Mobilization for Early In-Person Voting”
Lisa A. Bryant (lbryant@unm.edu) and Lonna R. Atkeson (atkeson@unm.edu): “Close to Work, Close to Home? An Examination of Where Voters Choose to Cast their Ballot”
Greg Vonnahme (vonnahmeg@umkc.edu), Lonna R. Atkeson (atkeson@unm.edu), Lisa A. Bryant (lbryant@unm.edu), Chris Mann (cmann@miami.edu) and Robert M. Stein (stein@rice.edu): “Vote Centers and the Spatial Distribution of Voting”
Discussant: Kevin Arceneuax (kevin.arceneaux@temple.edu)
Session 2 Panels: 10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
Panel 1: Legislative Representation and Responsiveness – ICF
Chair: Beth Reingold (polbr@emory.edu)
Robert E. Hogan (rhogan1@lsu.edu): “Factors Conditioning the Representational Activities of State Legislators”
Jeffrey Harden (jjharden@unc.edu): “Multidimensional Responsiveness: The Determinants of Legislators’ Representational Priorities”
Patrick Flavin (Patrick_J_Flavin@baylor.edu): “Election Law Reforms and the Equality of Political Representation in the American States”
Cindy Rugeley (cindy.rugeley@ttu.edu): “Safe Havens or Facilitators: The Influence of Legislative Professionalism on Policy Responsiveness”
Discussants: Tracy Osborn (tracy-osborn@uiowa.edu) and Lynda Powell (lynda.powell@ur.rochester.edu)
Panel 2: State of the State: Governors and their Policy Agendas – B3F
Chair: Don Ostdiek (dho@rice.edu)
Thad Kousser (tkousser@ucsd.edu) and Justin Phillips (jhp2121@columbia.edu): “The Governors’ Game: Winning on Budgets and Losing on Policy”
Richard Herrera (richard.herrera@asu.edu) and Karen Shafer (karen.shafer@waldenu.edu): “Media Coverage of Gubernatorial Policy Agendas”
Barbara Ferrara (bferr1@uis.edu): “Gender and Governors’ Policy Agendas”
Discussants: Nelson C. Dometrius (nelson.dometrius@ttu.edu) and Don Ostdiek (dho@rice.edu)
Panel 3: What Factors Impact Voter Turnout? – FW
Chair: Lyn Ragsdale (lyn.ragsdale@rice.edu)
Robert S. Erikson (rse14@columbia.edu) and Kelly Radar (ktr2102@columbia.edu): “Voter Turnout and Laws in the U.S. States: Investigating the Causal Effect of Participatory Culture”
Eric Plutzer (exp12@psu.edu): “Do Highly Exclusive Social Welfare Programs Increase Political Inequality? A Comparative Analysis of the 50 US States”
Marc Meredith (marcmere@sas.upenn.edu) and Michael Morse morsem@sas.upenn.edu): “The Politics of the Restoration for Ex-Felon Voting Rights”
John E. McNulty (jmcnulty@binghamton.edu), Michael A. Allen (allenmi@missouri.edu), Laura M. Martin (lmm@senatorlibous.com) and Tansy Woan (twoan318@gmail.com): “Legally Mandated Inconvenience: Do Driver’s License Suspensions Reduce Voter Turnout”
Discussants: Caroline J. Tolbert (caroline-tolbert@uiowa.edu) and Chris Mann (cmann@miami.edu)
Session 3 Panels: 1:45 – 3:30 p.m.
Panel 1: The States in Washington – FW
Chair: Ann O’M. Bowman (abowman@bushschool.tamu.edu)
Heather M. Creek (hcreek@umd.edu): “Fifty Interest Groups: The U.S. States in the Intergovernmental Lobby”
Justin Gollob (jgollob@mesastate.edu) and J. Wesley Leckrone (jwleckrone@widener.edu): “A State Legislature and Federalism: Variables Affecting Consensus and Conflict on Intergovernmental Policy Issues”
Jennifer M. Jensen (jjensen@binghamton.edu): “Rise of the Partisans: The Republican and Democratic Governors Association in Campaigns, Political Campaigns, and Washington Politics”
Bryan Shelly (bshelly24@gmail.com): “Predicting State Waiver Requests and Federal Response”
Discussants: Ann O’M. Bowman (abowman@bushschool.tamu.edu) and Richard C. Kearney (rick_kearney@ncsu.edu)
Panel 2: Electoral Districts and Public Opinion – ICF
Chair: Richard Niemi (niemi@rochester.edu)
Caroline J. Tolbert (caroline-tolbert@uiowa.edu) and Daniel C. Bowen (bowend@tcnj.edu): “United but Unequal: State Population Size and Representation in America’s Federal System”
John P. McIver (mciver@austin.utexas.edu): “Resurrecting the Dead: Using the Literary Digest to Study State Politics Before the Modern Era of Public Opinion Polling”
Barbara Norrander (norrande@email.arizona.edu) and Kerri Stephens (kstephen@email.arizona.edu): “Primary Type and Polarization of State Electorates”
Discussants: Lonna R. Atkeson (atkeson@unm.edu) and Jeffrey Harden (jjharden@unc.edu)
Panel 3: Legislative Careers and Legislative Experience – B3F
Chair: Gary Moncrief (gmoncri@boisestate.edu)
Daniel Butler (daniel.butler@yale.edu): “Progressive Ambition in the States”
Zachary Baumann (zdb1@psu.edu): “Just Passing Through? Explaining the Career Lengths of State Legislators”
Nelson C. Dometrius (nelson.dometrius@ttu.edu) and Justin Carter (justin.carter@ttu.edu): “The Bureaucratic Implications of Variations in Legislative Time on the Job”
Daniel C. Lewis (dclewis1@uno.edu): “Dissecting the Relationship between Term Limits and Fiscal Policy”
Discussants: Nancy Martorano Miller (Nancy.Martorano@notes.udayton.edu) and Gary Moncrief (gmoncri@boisestate.edu)
Session 4 Panels: 3:45 – 5:15 p.m.
Panel 1: Institutional Gridlock and Coalition Building – B3F
Chair: Boris Shor (bshor@uchicago.edu)
Carl Klarner (cklarner@indstate.edu) and Justin Phillips (jhp2121@columbia.edu): “Overcoming Fiscal Gridlock: Institutions and Budget Bargaining”
Lynda Powell (lynda.powell@ur.rochester.edu): “Gridlock? Explaining Variation in Cross-Party Coalition Building in the 99 Chambers”
Jim Battista (jbattist@buffalo.edu), Michael Peress (mperess@mail.rochester.edu) and Jesse Richman (jrichman@odu.edu): “Recovering Status Quos in the State Legislatures”
Discussants: Royce Carroll (rcarroll@rice.edu) and Boris Shor (bshor@uchicago.edu)
Panel 2: Context Matters: Implications for Electoral Outcomes – FW
Chair: Robert E. Hogan (rhogan1@lsu.edu)
Robert S. Erikson (rse14@columbia.edu), Olle Folke (of2152@columbia.edu) and James M. Snyder (jsnyder@gov.harvard.edu): “A Gubernatorial Helping Hand? How Gubernatorial Party Affects Presidential Elections”
Steve Rogers (rogerssm@princeton.edu): “Obama: the State Legislator People Vote Against”
R. Bruce Anderson (randerson2@flsouthern.edu) and Joshua Vaal (jvaal@flsouthern.edu): “Primary Attraction: Does the Romance Continue? Strategic Women Candidates in State Legislative House Election”
Discussants: Robert M. Stein (stein@rice.edu) and Robert E. Hogan (rhogan1@lsu.edu)
Panel 3: Where Do You Draw the Line? Partisan or Demographic Determinants – ICF
Chair: John Alford (jra@rice.edu)
Daniel C. Bowen (bowend@tcnj.edu) and Jonathan Winburn (jwinburn@olemiss.edu): “Redistricting, Representation, and the Politics of Splitting Communities of Interest”
Todd Makse (toddmakse@gmail.com): “Defining ‘Communities of Interest’ in Redistricting Through Initiative Voting”
Nicholas Goedert (ngoedert@princeton.edu): “Southern Redistricting under the VRA: A Model of Partisan Tides”
Scott T. Macdonell (smacdonell@utexas.edu): “A Test for Partisan Gerrymandering”
Discussants: Jason Casellas (casellas@mail.utexas.edu) and John Alford (jra@rice.edu)
Saturday
Session 5 Panels: 8:30 – 10:15 a.m.
Panel 1: Partisan Competition and Legislative Party Polarization – ICF
Chair: Gerald C. Wright (wright1@indiana.edu)
Royce Carroll (rcarroll@rice.edu) and Jason Eichorst (jaeichorst@rice.edu): “The Role of Party: The Legislative Consequences of Partisan Electoral Competition”
Tiffany D. Barnes (tiffanydbarnes@rice.edu) and Mark P. Jones (mpj@rice.edu): “Evolution in Texas? The 40-Year Partisan Realignment of the Texas House”
Tracy Osborn (tracy-osborn@uiowa.edu), Cassie Cumings-Peterson (cassie-cumings-peterson@uiowa.edu) and Rebecca Kreitzer (rebecca-kreitzer@uiowa.edu): “Polarization in Roll Call Voting Among Women State Legislators”
Virginia Gray (vagray@email.unc.edu), David Lowery (dlowery@psu.edu), Boris Shor (bshor@uchicago.edu), John Cluverius (cluverius@unc.edu) and Jeffrey Harden (jjharden@unc.edu): “When Reds are Redder and Blues are Bluer: Party Competition, Party Polarization, and the Changing Demand for Lobbying in the American States”
Gerald C. Wright (wright1@indiana.edu) and Nathaniel Birkhead (nbirkhea@indiana.edu): “The Partisan Sort of State Electorates”
Discussants: Jennifer Clark (jclark10@uh.edu) and Thomas M. Carsey (carsey@unc.edu)
Panel 2: What Factors Shape Public Policy? – FW
Chair: Richard Winters (Richard.Winters@dartmouth.edu)
Saundra K. Schneider (sks@msu.edu) and William G. Jacoby (jacoby@msu.edu): “What shapes policy efforts across the American states?”
Elizabeth Rigby (erigby@gwu.edu): “Who Wins (and Who Loses) in Class-based Political Parties?”
Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo (becky.bromley-trujillo@uky.edu): “Environmental Policy Support in the American States”
Ann O’M. Bowman (abowman@bushschool.tamu.edu) and Richard C. Kearney (rick_kearney@ncsu.edu): “Easy Pickings: State Legislatures Look to their Local Governments”
Discussants: Andrew Karch (ajkarch@umn.edu) and Richard Winters (Richard.Winters@dartmouth.edu)
Panel 3: Beyond the Bench: A Look at State Supreme Court Justices – B3F
Chair: Paul Brace (pbrace@rice.edu)
Melinda Gann Hall (hallme@msu.edu): “Representation in State Supreme Courts: Evidence from the Terminal Term”
Todd A. Curry (todd.a.curry@wmich.edu) and Mark S. Hurwitz (mark.hurwitz@wmich.edu): “Strategic Retirements of Elected and Appointed Justices in State Supreme Courts: A Hazard Model Approach”
Meghan E. Leonard (mleonar@ilstu.edu) and Joseph V. Ross (jvross@email.arizona.edu): “Cooperation on State Supreme Courts”
Sally J. Kenney (skenney@tulane.edu) and Jason H. Windett (jwindett@slu.edu): “The Diffusion of Female Supreme Court Justices in American States”
Discussants: Paul Brace (pbrace@rice.edu) and Brent Boyea (boyea@uta.edu)
Session 6 Panels: 10:30 – 12:15 p.m.
Panel 1: State Legislatures Allocate Power, Positions, Pork and Control – FW
Chair: Peverill Squire (squirep@missouri.edu)
Christopher Mooney (cmoon1@uis.edu): “Principals, Agents, Tools, and Influence: Sorting Out the Causes of Legislative Leadership Power”
Ronald D. Hedlund (r.hedlund@neu.edu), Claudia Larson (larson.cl@husky.neu.edu), Rob DeLeo (deleo.ro@gmail.com) and David P. Hedlund (david_p_hedlund@hotmail.com): “A Cross-state Analysis of Legislative Committee Request Success Rates”
Gerald Gamm (Gerald.gamm@rochester.edu) and Thad Kousser (tkousser@ucsd.edu): “Parties and Pork: Historical Evidence from the American States”
Robert J. McGrath (rmcgrat2@gmu.edu): “Legislatures, Courts, and Statutory Control of the Bureaucracy across the U.S. States”
Discussants: Jim Battista (jbattist@buffalo.edu) and Peverill Squire (squirep@missouri.edu)
Panel 2: The Impact of Political or Social Context on Public Opinion – ICF
Chair: Barbara Norrander (norrande@email.arizona.edu)
Emily Shaw (shawe@thomas.edu): “Public Opinion and State-level Electoral Reform Following the 2010 Elections”
David P. Redlawsk (redlawsk@rutgers.edu) and Caroline J. Tolbert (caroline-tolbert@uiowa.edu): “Support for LGBT Rights: How Personality Effects are Conditioned by State Legal Environment and Social Context”
Donald P. Haider-Markel (dhmarkel@ku.edu), Charles Epp (chuckepp@ku.edu) and Steven Maynard-Moody (smm@ku.edu): “Constructing Distrust: The Consequences of African-American Encounters with Police”
Jamie Monogan (monogan@uga.edu): “Immigration Politics and Partisan Realignment: An Analysis of California and Texas”
Discussants: Barbara Norrander (norrande@email.arizona.edu) and John P. McIver (mciver@austin.utexas.edu)
Panel 3: Strategy and Money in State Campaigns – B3F
Chair: Ruth Jones (Ruth.Jones@asu.edu)
Kevin K. Banda (kbanda@email.unc.edu) and Thomas M. Carsey (carsey@unc.edu): “Two Stage Elections, Strategic Candidates, and Agenda Convergence”
Greg Vonnahme (vonnahmeg@umkc.edu): “A Model of Inequities in Campaign Money in State Legislative Elections”
Rhonda Wrzenski (rwrzensk@ius.edu): “Is It Really ‘All About the Benjamins’?: Exploring the Role of Campaign Self-Finance in the State Legislative Electoral Process”
William Salka (salkaw@easternct.edu): “Determinants of Participation and Electoral Competition in Publicly Funded State Legislative Campaigns”
Discussants: Ruth Jones (Ruth.Jones@asu.edu) and Kayla J. Crider (kjcrh7@mail.missouri.edu)
Session 7 Panels: 1:45 – 3:30 p.m.
Panel 1: Direct Democracy: Outcomes and Impacts – ICF
Chair: Frederick J. Boehmke (frederick-boehmke@uiowa.edu)
Craig Burnett (burnettcm@appstate.edu) and Janine Parry (parry@uark.edu): “The Limits of Statehouse Endorsements on Opinions toward Referendums”
A. Lee Hannah (lee.hannah@psu.edu): “Ballot Initiatives and Electoral Timing”
Michael New (michael.j.new@gmail.com): “Analyzing the Effect of the Citizen Initiative on Fiscal Outcomes Over Time”
Jay Barth (Barth@hendrix.edu) and Gary Reich (greich@ku.edu): “Demographic Change, Direct Democracy, and Political Context: A Multivariate Analysis of State Adoption of Restrictive Immigration Policies”
Discussants: Frederick J. Boehmke (frederick-boehmke@uiowa.edu) and Daniel Smith (dasmith@ufl.edu)
Panel 2: Impacting the Redistricting Process and Subsequent Effects – FW
Chair: Richard Murray (rmurray@central.uh.edu)
Eric A. Lindgren (elindgren@whittier.edu): “Commissions and Competition in the 2002 through 2010 US House Elections”
Jeffrey W. Ladewig (jeffrey.ladewig@gmail.com) and Seth C. McKee (scmckee@mail.usf.edu): “One Person, One Vote: Principle versus Reality in U.S. House Elections”
Justin M. Levitt (jlevitt@ucsd.edu): “Getting the Map You Want: A Bargaining Model of Interest Groups in Local Government Redistricting”
Discussant: Jonathan Winburn (jwinburn@olemiss.edu)
Panel 3: Legislative Development and Capacity – B3F
Chair: Ronald D. Hedlund (r.hedlund@neu.edu)
Nancy Martorano Miller (Nancy.Martorano@notes.udayton.edu) and Ronald D. Hedlund (r.hedlund@neu.edu): “One Tough Nut: The Development of Legislative Structure and Procedure in the Constitution and Statutes of the Buckeye State”
Peverill Squire (squirep@missouri.edu): “Quorum Rules in Historical Perspective”
Christopher J. Clark (chriclar@email.unc.edu): “An Institutional Explanation of State Legislative Black Caucus Formation, 1971-1989”
Bryan S. McQuide (mcquide@uidaho.edu): “State Legislative Institutions & Information Asymmetries: How State Legislatures Respond to Emerging Issues”
Discussant: Christopher Mooney (cmoon1@uis.edu)
Session 8 Panels: 3:45 – 5:15 p.m.
Panel 1: The Impact of Policy – B3F
Chair: Lilliard Richardson (richardsonle@missouri.edu)
David M. Konisky (dmk74@georgetown.edu) and Christopher Reenock (creenock@fsu.edu): “Empowerment through Design: Institutional Remedies to Environmental Injustice”
Beibei Zou (beibeizou@mail.utexas.edu) and David Eaton (eaton@mail.utexas.edu): “Who Should Regulate Insurance? An Evaluation of Title Insurance Rates Inequality among States”
Belinda Creel Davis (davisbe@lsu.edu): “You Can’t Teach an Old Dog New Tricks: the Emergence of Employment Bureaucracies in TANF Implementation”
Discussants: Lilliard Richardson (richardsonle@missouri.edu) and Donald P. Haider-Markel (dhmarkel@ku.edu)
Panel 2: Politics, the News Media and the New Media – FW
Chair: Martin Johnson (martin.johnson@ucr.edu)
Kirby Goidel (kgoidel@lsu.edu), Ashley Kirzinger (akirzi1@tigers.lsu.edu), Johanna Dunaway (jdunaway@lsu.edu) and Phillip Madison (tmadis1@tigers.lsu.edu): “Gulf State Local News Framing of the Horizon Deepwater Oil Spill”
D. Xavier Medina Vidal (dmedi005@ucr.edu): “Hispanic State Legislators and Spanish-Language Media: Shaping Latino Policy Agendas in the States”
Marija Bekafigo (marija.bekafigo@gmail.com) and Diana Tracy Cohen (cohendit@ccsu.edu): “Governors Campaign Online: Social Media in the American States”
Garrick L. Percival (percival@d.umn.edu): “Smart on Crime: How a Shift in Political Attention is Changing Penal Policy in the U.S. States”
Discussant: Martin Johnson (martin.johnson@ucr.edu)
Panel 3: Political Opinion and Political Participation – ICF
Chair: Robert M. Stein (stein@rice.edu)
David Broockman (broockman@berkeley.edu): “Does the Election of Women Cause Other Women To Vote or Run for Office? Evidence From a Regression Discontinuity Design”
Michael Herron (Michael.herron@dartmouth.edu) and Daniel Smith (dasmith@ufl.edu): “The Participatory Impact of Truncating Early Voting in Florida”
Shanna Pearson-Merkowitz (shannapm@gmail.com) Alexander Filindra (afilindra@yahoo.com) and Joshua Dyck (jdyck@buffalo.edu): “The Interactive Role of Elite Cues and Residential Context in Shaping Public Opinion about Immigration in the New England States”
Discussant: Todd Makse (toddmakse@gmail.com)