Robert A Bernstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1027685 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Bernstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernstein |
| SIGNATURE | BERNSTEIN R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 376 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Cross-State Bias in Voting and Registration Overreporting in the Current Population Surveys
There is tremendous nonrandom variation from state to state in the rates at which people overreport voting in the Current Population Surveys (CPS). What accounts for this state-level bias in overreporting? We find that the determinants of statewide rates of overreporting parallel those in our earlier findings on individual-level overreporting: overreporting is a function of higher concentrations of racial and ethnic minorities, higher rates of re…
Overreporting Voting
The key to understanding why people overreport is that those who are under the most pressure to vote are the ones most likely to misrepresent their behavior when they fail to do so. Among all nonvoters, the most likely to overreport are the more educated, partisan, and religious, and those who have been contacted and asked to vote for a candidate. The greater the concentration of African-American and Latino nonvoters in a district, the greater th…
Charles J. Spindler
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Might Women Now Have the Edge? Open-Seat House Primaries
I present two arguments for hypothesizing that women might now have an edge over men in open-seat primaries. First, female candidates might be advantaged by a greater salience of women's issues to proponents than opponents of those issues. Second, female candidates might be advantaged by a greater desire for descriptive representation among women than among men. However, evidence from the 1992 and 1994 primaries is able to confirm that women cons…
Directing Electoral Appeals away from the Center: Issue Position and Issue Salience
This study analyzes issues used repeatedly by the ANES in studying presidential races, 1972-88. Three conclusions stand out in the findings: (1) on issues offering concentrated benefits and diffuse or deferred costs, there is a correlation between issue position and issue salience; (2) those issues tend to be most salient to strong proponents, and of almost no salience to strong opponents; (3) consequently, the optimal candidate lo cation on such…
Determinants of Differences in Feelings Toward Senators Representing the Same State
s, 1988. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University. This content downloaded from 157.55.39.118 on Fri, 22 Apr 2016 05:45:58 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Determinants of Differences in Feelings 725 Whitby, Kenny, and Timothy Bledsoe. 1986. The Impact of Voting on the Electoral Fortunes of Senate Incumbents. Western Political Quarterly 39: 690-700. Wright, Gerald, Jr. 1989. Policy Voting in the U.S. Senate: Who is Represented? Leg…
Determinants of Differences in Feelings Toward Senators Representing the Same State
Strategic Shifts: Safeguarding the Public Interest? U. S. Senators, 1971-86
Ideological Deviation and Support for Reelection: Party Differences in Senate Races
A key empirical claim often made in defense of elections is that deviation from the of the electorate tends to be punished at the polls. The traditional hypothesis is that the more incumbents deviate from the ideological of their constituencies, the less support they tend to receive in reelection races (MacNeil 1963; Erikson 1971; Wright 1977, 1978, 1989; Pomper 1980; Johannes and McAdams 1981; Davidson and Oleszek 1981; Johannes 1984; Erikson an…
Issues and Elections: Presidential Voting in Contemporary America--A Revisionist View. Euel W. Elliott
Do U.S. Senators Moderate Strategically
Do U.S. senators adjust their policy positions or voting behavior—engage in “strategic moderation”—in their quest for reelection? In the June 1986 issue of this Review , Gerald Wright and Michael Berkman sought to demonstrate that Senate incumbents moderate their ideological positions as elections near. This endeavor was part of their larger effort to show the importance of policy issues in the selection of members of Congress. Robert Bernstein t…
Why Are There so Few Women in the House
HILE the proportion of offices held by women at the state and local level increased rapidly in the sixties and seventies, the propor-V v tion of seats held by women in the House of Representatives has remained nearly constant for more than two decades. That proportion has not increased despite a tripling in the number of women nominated for House seats by the major parties. A fairly entrenched myth has it that the increased nominations did not le…
An Introduction to Political Science Methods
Explaining House Voting On Energy Policy: Ideology and the Conditional Effects of Party and District Economic Interests
HE IMPORTANCE of congressional decisions on energy policy has provoked considerable speculation but relatively little empirical JL analysis on why congressmen vote as they do.'Speculation has fo- cused on three main factors as explanations for congressional voting be- havior on energy policy: (1) the relative economic benefit to the district; (2) the party affiliation of the congressman; and (3) the ideology of the con- gressman.This analysis of …
Explaining House Voting on Energy Policy: Ideology and the Conditional Effects of Party and District Economic Interests
Robert A. Bernstein, Stephen R. Horn, Explaining House Voting on Energy Policy: Ideology and the Conditional Effects of Party and District Economic Interests, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 235-245
Divisive Primaries Do Hurt: U.S. Senate Races, 1956—1972
This analysis shows, in contrast to previously published work, that a divisive primary hurts a senatorial candidate's chances for success in the general election. The relationship between divisiveness and lack of success continues to hold when incumbency and state party orientations are controlled. This relationship has an important implication regarding representation. The fact that divisive primaries do hurt strengthens the representation of we…
Race, Class and Support for Female Candidates
Race, Class and Support for Female Candidates
The ABM Issue in the Senate, 1968-1970: The Importance of Ideology
Three hypotheses suggesting why senators might adopt or change positions on such an issue as the ABM are compared. The empirical analysis clearly substantiates the contention that position reflects ideology, not party commitment or potential state economic benefits. Furthermore, the influence of ideology is seen to have grown more apparent each year the issue was contested in the Senate. Virtually all the senators who changed position between 196…
International integration: Multidimensional or Unidimensional
As Boulding has so aptly noted, increases in scientific knowledge are dependent upon precision in prediction, which can only be obtained through precise conceptualization and operationalisation of concepts (1966, pp. 12-14). Thus recent attempts to conceptualize and operationalize international integration as a multidimensional phenomenon requiring multivariate measurement (Lindberg, 1970; Nye, 1968) should be of great concern to all scholars in …
Communications
Trusts and Estate Taxation
Primarily for Sale: A Semantic Snare
A structural approach to the analysis of international relations
Overreporting Voting
The key to understanding why people overreport is that those who are under the most pressure to vote are the ones most likely to misrepresent their behavior when they fail to do so. Among all nonvoters, the most likely to overreport are the more educated, partisan, and religious, and those who have been contacted and asked to vote for a candidate. The greater the concentration of African-American and Latino nonvoters in a district, the greater th…
The ABM Issue in the Senate, 1968-1970: The Importance of Ideology
Three hypotheses suggesting why senators might adopt or change positions on such an issue as the ABM are compared. The empirical analysis clearly substantiates the contention that position reflects ideology, not party commitment or potential state economic benefits. Furthermore, the influence of ideology is seen to have grown more apparent each year the issue was contested in the Senate. Virtually all the senators who changed position between 196…
Divisive Primaries Do Hurt: U.S. Senate Races, 1956—1972
This analysis shows, in contrast to previously published work, that a divisive primary hurts a senatorial candidate's chances for success in the general election. The relationship between divisiveness and lack of success continues to hold when incumbency and state party orientations are controlled. This relationship has an important implication regarding representation. The fact that divisive primaries do hurt strengthens the representation of we…
Why Are There so Few Women in the House
HILE the proportion of offices held by women at the state and local level increased rapidly in the sixties and seventies, the propor-V v tion of seats held by women in the House of Representatives has remained nearly constant for more than two decades. That proportion has not increased despite a tripling in the number of women nominated for House seats by the major parties. A fairly entrenched myth has it that the increased nominations did not le…
Do U.S. Senators Moderate Strategically
Do U.S. senators adjust their policy positions or voting behavior—engage in “strategic moderation”—in their quest for reelection? In the June 1986 issue of this Review , Gerald Wright and Michael Berkman sought to demonstrate that Senate incumbents moderate their ideological positions as elections near. This endeavor was part of their larger effort to show the importance of policy issues in the selection of members of Congress. Robert Bernstein t…
A structural approach to the analysis of international relations
Cross-State Bias in Voting and Registration Overreporting in the Current Population Surveys
There is tremendous nonrandom variation from state to state in the rates at which people overreport voting in the Current Population Surveys (CPS). What accounts for this state-level bias in overreporting? We find that the determinants of statewide rates of overreporting parallel those in our earlier findings on individual-level overreporting: overreporting is a function of higher concentrations of racial and ethnic minorities, higher rates of re…
Strategic Shifts: Safeguarding the Public Interest? U. S. Senators, 1971-86
Directing Electoral Appeals away from the Center: Issue Position and Issue Salience
This study analyzes issues used repeatedly by the ANES in studying presidential races, 1972-88. Three conclusions stand out in the findings: (1) on issues offering concentrated benefits and diffuse or deferred costs, there is a correlation between issue position and issue salience; (2) those issues tend to be most salient to strong proponents, and of almost no salience to strong opponents; (3) consequently, the optimal candidate lo cation on such…
Might Women Now Have the Edge? Open-Seat House Primaries
I present two arguments for hypothesizing that women might now have an edge over men in open-seat primaries. First, female candidates might be advantaged by a greater salience of women's issues to proponents than opponents of those issues. Second, female candidates might be advantaged by a greater desire for descriptive representation among women than among men. However, evidence from the 1992 and 1994 primaries is able to confirm that women cons…
Ideological Deviation and Support for Reelection: Party Differences in Senate Races
A key empirical claim often made in defense of elections is that deviation from the of the electorate tends to be punished at the polls. The traditional hypothesis is that the more incumbents deviate from the ideological of their constituencies, the less support they tend to receive in reelection races (MacNeil 1963; Erikson 1971; Wright 1977, 1978, 1989; Pomper 1980; Johannes and McAdams 1981; Davidson and Oleszek 1981; Johannes 1984; Erikson an…
Explaining House Voting on Energy Policy: Ideology and the Conditional Effects of Party and District Economic Interests
Robert A. Bernstein, Stephen R. Horn, Explaining House Voting on Energy Policy: Ideology and the Conditional Effects of Party and District Economic Interests, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 235-245
International integration: Multidimensional or Unidimensional
As Boulding has so aptly noted, increases in scientific knowledge are dependent upon precision in prediction, which can only be obtained through precise conceptualization and operationalisation of concepts (1966, pp. 12-14). Thus recent attempts to conceptualize and operationalize international integration as a multidimensional phenomenon requiring multivariate measurement (Lindberg, 1970; Nye, 1968) should be of great concern to all scholars in …
Determinants of Differences in Feelings Toward Senators Representing the Same State
Explaining House Voting On Energy Policy: Ideology and the Conditional Effects of Party and District Economic Interests
HE IMPORTANCE of congressional decisions on energy policy has provoked considerable speculation but relatively little empirical JL analysis on why congressmen vote as they do.'Speculation has fo- cused on three main factors as explanations for congressional voting be- havior on energy policy: (1) the relative economic benefit to the district; (2) the party affiliation of the congressman; and (3) the ideology of the con- gressman.This analysis of …
Race, Class and Support for Female Candidates
Trusts and Estate Taxation
Primarily for Sale: A Semantic Snare
A structural approach to the analysis of international relations
Communications
International integration: Multidimensional or Unidimensional
As Boulding has so aptly noted, increases in scientific knowledge are dependent upon precision in prediction, which can only be obtained through precise conceptualization and operationalisation of concepts (1966, pp. 12-14). Thus recent attempts to conceptualize and operationalize international integration as a multidimensional phenomenon requiring multivariate measurement (Lindberg, 1970; Nye, 1968) should be of great concern to all scholars in …
The ABM Issue in the Senate, 1968-1970: The Importance of Ideology
Three hypotheses suggesting why senators might adopt or change positions on such an issue as the ABM are compared. The empirical analysis clearly substantiates the contention that position reflects ideology, not party commitment or potential state economic benefits. Furthermore, the influence of ideology is seen to have grown more apparent each year the issue was contested in the Senate. Virtually all the senators who changed position between 196…
Race, Class and Support for Female Candidates
Race, Class and Support for Female Candidates
Divisive Primaries Do Hurt: U.S. Senate Races, 1956—1972
This analysis shows, in contrast to previously published work, that a divisive primary hurts a senatorial candidate's chances for success in the general election. The relationship between divisiveness and lack of success continues to hold when incumbency and state party orientations are controlled. This relationship has an important implication regarding representation. The fact that divisive primaries do hurt strengthens the representation of we…
Explaining House Voting On Energy Policy: Ideology and the Conditional Effects of Party and District Economic Interests
HE IMPORTANCE of congressional decisions on energy policy has provoked considerable speculation but relatively little empirical JL analysis on why congressmen vote as they do.'Speculation has fo- cused on three main factors as explanations for congressional voting be- havior on energy policy: (1) the relative economic benefit to the district; (2) the party affiliation of the congressman; and (3) the ideology of the con- gressman.This analysis of …
Explaining House Voting on Energy Policy: Ideology and the Conditional Effects of Party and District Economic Interests
Robert A. Bernstein, Stephen R. Horn, Explaining House Voting on Energy Policy: Ideology and the Conditional Effects of Party and District Economic Interests, The Western Political Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 235-245
An Introduction to Political Science Methods
Why Are There so Few Women in the House
HILE the proportion of offices held by women at the state and local level increased rapidly in the sixties and seventies, the propor-V v tion of seats held by women in the House of Representatives has remained nearly constant for more than two decades. That proportion has not increased despite a tripling in the number of women nominated for House seats by the major parties. A fairly entrenched myth has it that the increased nominations did not le…
Do U.S. Senators Moderate Strategically
Do U.S. senators adjust their policy positions or voting behavior—engage in “strategic moderation”—in their quest for reelection? In the June 1986 issue of this Review , Gerald Wright and Michael Berkman sought to demonstrate that Senate incumbents moderate their ideological positions as elections near. This endeavor was part of their larger effort to show the importance of policy issues in the selection of members of Congress. Robert Bernstein t…
Issues and Elections: Presidential Voting in Contemporary America--A Revisionist View. Euel W. Elliott
Strategic Shifts: Safeguarding the Public Interest? U. S. Senators, 1971-86
Ideological Deviation and Support for Reelection: Party Differences in Senate Races
A key empirical claim often made in defense of elections is that deviation from the of the electorate tends to be punished at the polls. The traditional hypothesis is that the more incumbents deviate from the ideological of their constituencies, the less support they tend to receive in reelection races (MacNeil 1963; Erikson 1971; Wright 1977, 1978, 1989; Pomper 1980; Johannes and McAdams 1981; Davidson and Oleszek 1981; Johannes 1984; Erikson an…
Determinants of Differences in Feelings Toward Senators Representing the Same State
s, 1988. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University. This content downloaded from 157.55.39.118 on Fri, 22 Apr 2016 05:45:58 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Determinants of Differences in Feelings 725 Whitby, Kenny, and Timothy Bledsoe. 1986. The Impact of Voting on the Electoral Fortunes of Senate Incumbents. Western Political Quarterly 39: 690-700. Wright, Gerald, Jr. 1989. Policy Voting in the U.S. Senate: Who is Represented? Leg…
Determinants of Differences in Feelings Toward Senators Representing the Same State
Directing Electoral Appeals away from the Center: Issue Position and Issue Salience
This study analyzes issues used repeatedly by the ANES in studying presidential races, 1972-88. Three conclusions stand out in the findings: (1) on issues offering concentrated benefits and diffuse or deferred costs, there is a correlation between issue position and issue salience; (2) those issues tend to be most salient to strong proponents, and of almost no salience to strong opponents; (3) consequently, the optimal candidate lo cation on such…
Might Women Now Have the Edge? Open-Seat House Primaries
I present two arguments for hypothesizing that women might now have an edge over men in open-seat primaries. First, female candidates might be advantaged by a greater salience of women's issues to proponents than opponents of those issues. Second, female candidates might be advantaged by a greater desire for descriptive representation among women than among men. However, evidence from the 1992 and 1994 primaries is able to confirm that women cons…
Charles J. Spindler
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Overreporting Voting
The key to understanding why people overreport is that those who are under the most pressure to vote are the ones most likely to misrepresent their behavior when they fail to do so. Among all nonvoters, the most likely to overreport are the more educated, partisan, and religious, and those who have been contacted and asked to vote for a candidate. The greater the concentration of African-American and Latino nonvoters in a district, the greater th…
Cross-State Bias in Voting and Registration Overreporting in the Current Population Surveys
There is tremendous nonrandom variation from state to state in the rates at which people overreport voting in the Current Population Surveys (CPS). What accounts for this state-level bias in overreporting? We find that the determinants of statewide rates of overreporting parallel those in our earlier findings on individual-level overreporting: overreporting is a function of higher concentrations of racial and ethnic minorities, higher rates of re…
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