Eighth Annual Conference on
State Politics and Policy
ELECTIONS AND REPRESENTATIVE
DEMOCRACY IN THE STATES
May 30-31, 2008, Philadelphia,
PA
Hosted by The Institute
for Public Affairs and the Department
of Political Science at Temple University, the State Politics section
of APSA, and State
Politics and Policy Quarterly
Papers Presented at the the 2008 Annual State Politics
and Policy Conference
Friday 8:30 AM Descriptive Representation
“A Seat at the Table: The Influence of Women's Political Representation
on States' Paid Leave Policy Development” by Kelly Dittmar,
Rutgers University
“Race, Ethnicity, Gender and the Political Geography of Descriptive
Representation in American State Legislatures” by Beth Reingold,
Emory University, Kathleen A. Bratton, Louisiana State University,
Kerry L. Haynie, Duke University
“Representation and Backlash: A Reassessment” by Don
Haider-Markel, University of Kansas
Friday 8:30 AM Direct Democracy I
“Is Policy Overly Responsive to Public Opinion? Fiscal Effects
of Direct Democracy” by Todd Donovan, Western Washington University,
Shaun Bowler, University of California, Riverside
“
Legislative Regulation of the Initiative” by Brian Delburn,
University of Florida, Daniel A. Smith, University of Florida
“Spending Priorities in Direct Democracy States” by
Daniel C. Lewis, Michigan State University, Saundra K. Schneider,
Michigan State University
Friday 8:30 AM Education Policy
“Classroom-Level Implementation of State Standards for Teaching
Evolution: The National Survey of High School Biology Teachers” by
Michael Berkman, Pennsylvania State University, Eric Plutzer, Pennsylvania
State University
“No Child Left Behind and the Power of Five Percent” by
Jason Casellas, University of Texas, Bryan Shelly, Wake Forest University
“Policy Legacies and Preschool Education in the American States” by
Andrew Karch, University of Texas
“Schoolhouse Pork? State Legislative Committee Representation
and the Distribution of Funds to School Districts” by Jason
A. Grissom, University of Missouri
Friday 10:15 AM Intergovernmental Relations
“Citizens’ Perceptions of Intergovernmental Policy Responsibilities” by
Saundra K. Schneider, Michigan State University, William G. Jacoby,
Michigan State University
“Connecting the States: Compact Participation, 1960-2000” by
Neal Woods, University of South Carolina, Ann O'M. Bowman, University
of South Carolina
“Poverty, Politics, and Policies: Understanding the Flow of
Federal Faith-Based Grants to the States” by Michael Leo Owens,
Emory University, Amy Yuen, Middlebury College
“Working with the State: Exploring Collaboration between State
and Local Agencies” by Dorothy Daley, University of Kansas,
Megan Mullin, Temple University
Friday 10:15 AM Participation I
“Modeling Problems in the Voter ID-Voter Turnout Debate” by
Robert S. Erikson, Columbia University, Lorraine C. Minnite, Barnard
College
“The Effects of Information and Self Interest on Turnout in
a Tax Reform Election” by Jason Barabas, Florida State University,
Charles Barrilleaux, Florida State University, Keith Ihlanfeldt,
Florida State University
“The Roots of Citizen Engagement in Subnational Politics” by
Andrea McAtee, University of South Carolina, Jennifer Wolak, University
of Colorado
Friday 10:15 AM Roundtable: Data on the States
“Cities, Parties, and Careerists in American State Legislatures” by
Gerald Gamm, University of Rochester
“Committees in State Legislatures” by Keith Hamm, Rice
University
“N=50 at FollowTheMoney.org” by Denise Roth Barber,
National Institute on Money in State Politics
“
Pennsylvania Policy Database Project” by Joseph P. McLaughlin,
Temple University, Frank R. Baumgartner, Pennsylvania State University
“Representation in America's Legislatures” by Gerald
C. Wright, Indiana University
Friday 2:00 PM Campaign Finance
“Buying Time in the Connecticut Legislature Before and After
Clean Elections” by Vincent G. Moscardelli, University of Massachusetts,
Raymond J. La Raja, University of Massachusetts, Nathaniel Kraft,
University of Massachusetts
“Candidate Emergence under Clean Elections: Does Public Funding
in State Legislative Elections Encourage Citizens to Run for Office?” by
Raymond J. La Raja, University of Massachusetts
“
The Adoption of State Legislative Campaign Finance Disclosure Laws” by
Jessica Jengeleski Philipp, Temple University
“Who Are the Individual Donors to Gubernatorial and State Legislative
Elections?” by Michael J. Malbin, Campaign Finance Institute,
Peter W. Brusoe, American University, Wesley Y. Joe, Campaign Finance
Institute, Jamie P. Pimlott, Niagara University, Clyde Wilcox, Georgetown
University
Friday 2:00 PM Campaigning: Effectiveness and Consequences
“Knowing Is Half the Battle: Political Advertising and Public
Awareness of California Propositions” by Stacey Pelika, College
of William & Mary
“
Targeted Advertising and Political Engagement in Competitive vs.
Uncompetitive States” by Matthew A. Childers, University
of California, San Diego, Samuel L. Popkin, University of California,
San Diego
“The Effect of Grassroots Campaigning on Issue Preferences and
Issue Salience” by Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University, Robin
Kolodny, Temple University
“
The Effects of Judicial Campaign Activity on the Legitimacy of Courts:
A Survey-Based Experiment, Pennsylvania, 2007” by Kathleen
Hall Jamieson, University of Pennsylvania, James L. Gibson, Washington
University, Jeffrey A. Gottfried, University of Pennsylvania, Michael
X. Delli Carpini, University of Pennsylvania
Friday 2:00 PM Institutional Power
“Executive Speeches and Divided Government: Is There Common
Ground in a House Divided?” by Chad Murphy, University of California,
Riverside, Martin Johnson, University of California, Riverside, Shaun
Bowler, University of California, Riverside
“Institutional Power, Perceived Power, and Conditional Party
Government” by Jim Battista, University at Buffalo, SUNY
“Measuring Institutional Political Power in the American States” by
William Ewell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Reevaluating the Item Veto” by Thad Kousser, University
of California, San Diego, Justin H. Phillips, Columbia University
Friday 3:45 PM Legislatures and their Institutions
“Critical Junctures in the Structure of State Legislatures:
Apportionment and the Status of Local Government in the 1874 Pennsylvania
Constitution” by Richardson Dilworth, Drexel University
“Did They Ever Return? The Development of a Committee Property
Rights Norm in State Legislatures During the Twentieth Century” by
Keith E. Hamm, Rice University, Ronald D. Hedlund, Northeastern University,
Greg Vonnahme, Rice University
“The Logic of Legislative Leadership” by Jesse Richman,
Old Dominion University
Friday 3:45 PM Parties
“Agreeing to Disagree: Party Conflict and Policy Specificity
in California” by Rachel VanSickle-Ward, Pitzer College
“Incumbent Legislators, Governors, and Party Bosses in the 2007
Russia's Legislative Election” by Olesya Tkacheva, University
of Michigan
“
The Cartographer's Pen is Mightier: Redistricting as a Motivational
Factor in Party Finance Strategy” by Todd Makse, The Ohio
State University
Friday 3:45 PM Public Opinion Across States and Over Time
“All Politics is Local: State-level Differences in Legislative
Immigration Discourses” by Alexandra Filindra, Rutgers University,
Melinda Kovács, Sam Houston State University
“Dynamic Public Opinion across the States” by Julianna
Pacheco, Penn State University
“The Distribution of Social Welfare Public Opinion in the American
States” by Matt Levendusky, University of Pennsylvania, Jeremy
Pope, Brigham Young University
“The Effect of Religious Orthodoxy and Commitment on State Ideology
and Partisanship” by John F. Camobreco, Christopher Newport
University
Saturday 8:30 AM Interest Groups and Policymaking
“Building Supply and Lowering Demand: Evaluating State Energy
Policies in an Era of Global Warming” by Christopher P. Borick,
Muhlenberg College, Eric Feld, Muhlenberg College
“Focusing Events, Incrementalism, and State Gun Policy Change” by
Heath A. Brown, Roanoke College
“One Nation. Fifty Immigration Policies? The Roots of State
Activism on Immigration” by Gary Reich, University of Kansas,
Jay Barth, Hendrix College
“The Interest Group and PAC Connection: How Characteristics
of the Policy Space Influence PAC Formation” by Jennifer Benz,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Mary Deason, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Justin Kirkland, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Jennifer Sykes, University of North
Carolina
at Chapel Hill, Virginia Gray, University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, David Lowery, University of Leiden
Saturday 8:30 AM Participation II
“Randomization Tests and Multi-Level Data in State Politics” by
Robert S. Erikson, Columbia University, Pablo M. Pinto, Columbia
University, Kelly T. Rader, Columbia University
“Social Desirability and Voting in Public: A Field Experiment
of Voter Turnout in the 2008 Iowa Caucus” by Christian R. Grose,
Vanderbilt University, Carrie A.Russell, Vanderbilt University
“State-level Electoral Competition and Turnout of Less Interested
Citizens” by Todd Donovan, Western Washington University, Caroline
J. Tolbert, University of Iowa
“Where Can and Should College Students Vote? A Legal, Empirical,
and Normative Perspective” by Richard G. Niemi, University
of Rochester, Thomas H. Jackson, University of Rochester, Michael
J. Hanmer,
University of Maryland
Saturday 8:30 AM Political Culture
“Citizenship, Leadership and Public Life in the Gubernatorial
Inaugural Rhetoric from Three Distinct States” by J. Cherie
Strachan, Central Michigan University
“Divided States: Defining and Measuring Intra-State Political
Culture” by Daniel J. Coffey, University of Akron, John C.
Green, University of Akron
“Regional
Political Subcultures in America: Evidence from Political Advertising” by
Glenn W. Richardson Jr., Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, Amy
E. Jasperson, University of Texas at San Antonio
“Southern Water Wars: Elazar Revisited” by James Newman,
Idaho State University
Saturday 10:15 AM Direct Democracy II
“Analyzing the Impact of the Citizen Initiative on State Fiscal
Policy” by Michael New, University of Alabama
“Direct Democracy, Racial Diversity and Social Trust” by
Joshua J. Dyck, University at Buffalo, SUNY
“Taxing Decisions: Confusion, Preferences and Vote Choice in
Direct Democracy” by Michael Binder, University of California,
San Diego
“The Effects of Ballot Measures on Congressional Voting Behavior” by
Daniel A. Smith, University of Florida, Joshua Huder, University
of Florida, Jordan Ragusa, University of Florida
Saturday 10:15 AM Representation and Responsiveness
“Legislative Responsiveness to State Public Opinion” by
Jeffrey E. Cohen, Fordham University, Richard Fleisher, Fordham University
“Public Opinion and Policy Congruence: Gay Rights in the States” by
Justin Phillips, Columbia University, Jeffrey Lax, Columbia University
“The Impact of Extra-District Electoral Influences on State
Legislators' Behavior” by Justin Gollob, Temple University
“Uncontested Elections and Legislator Performance, Quality,
and Effectiveness” by David Konisky, University of Missouri,
Michiko Ueda, California Institute of Technology
“Whose Statehouse Democracy? Differential Responsiveness of
State Parties to their Poor vs. Wealthy Constituents” by Elizabeth
Rigby, University of Houston, Gerald C. Wright, Indiana University
Saturday 10:15 AM Social Welfare
“Child Welfare Across the States: Does Social Capital Matter?” by
James M. Penning, Calvin College
“Life after Prison: Exploring the Determinants of 'Invisible
Punishment' Laws in the U.S. States” by Garrick Percival, University
of Minnesota, Duluth
“Post-Felony Citizenship & the Determinants of "Invisible
Punishment" of Ex-Felons by the American States” by Michael
Leo Owens, Emory University, Adrienne Smith, Emory University
“The Influence of Mandatory Reporting Laws Concerning Child
Maltreatment on Reporting Behaviors: An Analysis of State Statute and
State Characteristics” by Emily Douglas, Bridgewater State
College
Saturday 2:00 PM Elections in the States
“Midterm Loss in the States, 1978-2006” by Michael A.
Bailey, Georgetown University, Elliott B. Fullmer, Georgetown University
“The Divisive Primary Hypothesis Redux: The Effects of Candidates'
Ideological Distances in Party Primary Contests on General Election
Outcomes” by Tyler Frisbee, Dartmouth College, Richard F. Winters,
Dartmouth College
“The Good Times Are Killing Me: State-Level Economic Conditions
and the Election of 'Minority Party' Governors” by Hannah Goble,
University of Wisconsin—Madison, Stacey L. Pelika, College of
William & Mary
“The Political Economy of Trophy Industrial Recruitment Projects” by
Robert Turner, Skidmore College
Saturday 2:00 PM Term Limits
“Changing the Action: The Impact of Term Limits on Committees” by
Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, Wayne State University
“From Tokenism to Tilted Minority: Republican Success in a Term-Limited
Legislature” by Janine Parry, University of Arkansas, Melissa
Perry, University of Arkansas
“The Coingate Effect: The Impact of Scandal on Attitudes Toward
State and Federal Political Actors” by Nancy Martorano, University
of Dayton, Stacy G. Ulbig, Sam Houston State University
“Truly the "Upper" Chamber?: Relations Between the
House and Senate After Term Limits” by Kathryn A. DePalo, Florida
International University
Saturday 2:00 PM Voting Systems
“A Panacea for Voter Intimidation? Vote by Mail and Latino and
African-American Voters in Colorado” by Priscilla Lewis Southwell,
University of Oregon
“Laboratories of Democracy? State Electoral Processes” by
Mark Carl Rom, Georgetown University, Patrick Carr, Georgetown University
“Voter Confidence in Georgia's Touchscreen Voting System” by
Richard L. Clark, University of Georgia
Saturday 1:00 PM POSTER SESSION
“Tools of the Trade: The Impact of State Capacity” by
Katherine Barillas, University of Houston
“Do Federal Dollars Buy State Policy? An examination of the
effects of federal grant programs” by Courtney Broscious, Temple
University
“Partisanship and Blame
in a Federal System" by
Adam R. Brown, University of California, San Diego
“Public Funding of Candidates and Candidate Emergence in Gubernatorial
and State Legislative Elections” by Conor M. Dowling, Binghamton
University (SUNY)
“The President's Vertical Power of Persuasion: An Analysis of
the Role of George W. Bush in State and Local Elections in 2006” by
Andrew J. Glubzinski, United States Military Academy at West Point
“State Success in State Supreme Court” by Banks Miller,
Ohio State University
“Crisis, Culture, or Coverage: The Imagery and Substance of
State Political Scandals” by Adam J. Newmark, Appalachian State
University, Shannon Vaughan, Appalachian State University
“States Versus Territories: Who Comes Out Ahead in the U.S.
Courts of Appeals?” by Alan Tauber, University of South Carolina
“State Supreme Courts and Judicial Activism: Do Elections Matter?” by
Carol Walker, Georgia State University
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