Table 6: Hypothesis Test Results with Various Measures of State Initiative Process
Pure Pure
Init & Ref initiative Legisl. Qualify Avg. annual
dummy dummy insulation difficulty Use
Campaign Finance Policy b p b p b p b p b p
Ltd labor contributions 0.17 .35 0.33 .10 -0.005 .11 -0.05 .08 0.15 .01
Ltd. party contributions 0.43 .01 0.58 .00 -0.008 .00 -0.07 .00 0.14 .01
Ltd. corporate contributions 0.14 .42 0.25 .18 -0.006 .06 -0.04 .08 0.14 .01
Index of contrib. Regs. 0.96 .32 2.19 .04 -0.37 .04 -0.29 .04 0.90 .00
Abortion Policy
Restrictiveness index* -5.02 .90 -0.89 .90 -2.43 .41 6.76 .01 -15.95 .10
Internal Political Efficacy
Better informed than others 0.02 .73 0.04 .62 -0.004 .71 -0.005 .56 0.0014 .05
More qualified to participate 0.18 .03 0.18 .06 -0.029 .00 -0.025 .00 0.0017 .01
Politics not complicated 0.12 .80 0.04 .46 -0.009 .43 -0.007 .44 0.0015 .01
Internal effic. Index 0.35 .19 0.36 .22 -0.05 .12 -0.049 .09 0.0056 .01
External Political Efficacy
Officials don't care 0.01 .87 0.01 .91 -0.003 .79 -0.003 .07 0.0012 .05
Have no say 0.09 .35 0.14 .17 -0.028 .03 -0.02 .08 0.0022 .01
External effic. Index 0.08 .53 0.15 .27 -0.032 .05 -0.023 .11 0.0026 .01
Cell entries are OLS coefficients from multivariate models.  Coefficients for control variables omitted.
p = probability of b, two-tail test.
*coefficients here are from the relevant interaction terms