Dennis M Simon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1046591 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis M Simon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis M |
| FAMILY NAME | Simon |
| SIGNATURE | SIMON D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 718 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
The trail blazers: Women as third-party candidates in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1912–2012
Historically, very few female candidates have ever won election to the U.S. House of Representatives. In addition, very few third-party candidates have ever won election to the House. With data from 1912 to 2012 on more than 54,000 candidates, we provide an historical overview of third-party activity in general elections to the House and the participation of female candidates. Our analysis shows that third parties have been a consistent presence …
The Roll Call Behavior of Men and Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1937–2008
Our analysis investigates the ideological differences in the voting records of male and female members of the U.S. House of Representatives using a relatively novel natural-experiment research design to account for variations in district-level factors. We ask whether it makes a difference when a woman succeeds a man or a man succeeds a woman in a given congressional district. To answer this question, we created a database consisting of predecesso…
When Women Run Against Women: The Hidden Influence of Female Incumbents in Elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1956–2002
Although it is well known that "when women run, they win as often as men," the literature on women and campaigns suggests that we should see significant differences in races involving male and female incumbents. Do female incumbents face the same competitive environment as their male counterparts in elections for the U.S. House of Representatives? Using the existing literature on the role of stereotypes and gender traits in campaigns, we formulat…
Gender, Party and Political Change: The Evolution of a Democratic Advantage
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Political Ambition and Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1916-2000
This analysis demonstrates how political ambition theory can be applied to women who have served in the U.S. House of Representatives: under what conditions do political women manifest discrete, static, and progressive ambition? Our database includes all women elected to the House between 1916 and 2000. In differentiating between discrete and static ambition, we find that among congressional widows, there are measurable differences between those …
The Political Glass Ceiling: Gender, Strategy, and Incumbency in U.S. House Elections, 1978-1998
Why has the integration of women into elective office, particularly Congress, been so slow? We argue that incumbency and the general lack of competition in American elections serve as a “political glass ceiling,” having a dampening effect on the number of women running in both primary and general U.S. House elections. With data from House elections from 1978-1998, we find that although there have been general upward trends in the number of women …
The President, Referendum Voting, and Subnational Elections in the United States
This research is designed to generalize a referendum voting model and investigate its ability to account for the aggregate outcomes of elections for the House, Senate, governorships, and upper and lower chambers of state legislatures. Our analysis shows that these outcomes are influenced by the same systematic short- and long-term forces. In addition to this common referendum structure, the analysis reveals that there is a common response to rand…
Foreign Policy and Presidential Popularity: Creating Windows of Opportunity in the Perpetual Election
Variations in public support for the president have been explained in three different ways. First, approval has been viewed as controlled by the law of inevitable decline. Second, public support has been characterized as a function of an “environmental connection” between chief executives and macrofeatures of the political and economic landscape. Finally, some view “political drama” (e.g., speeches, trips, diplomatic agreements, and so on) as an …
Presidents, Governors, and Electoral Accountability
This paper is designed to demonstrate that citizen evaluations of presidential performance operate as an influence on voting in gubernatorial elections. The discussion first highlights the debate over the impact of presidential support in national elections and presents aggregate-level evidence suggesting that this impact extends to gubernatorial contests. Next, an individual-level model of the gubernatorial vote is estimated using a pooled data …
The Man in the Teflon Suit? The Environmental Connection, Political Drama, and Popular Support in the Reagan Presidency
An examination of public support during the presidency of Ronald Reagan reveals a unique pattern. The major features include two instances of rapidly declining support followed by historically unprecedented and sustained recoveries. The recovery of support is particularly surprising given that the literature of the early 1980s emphasizes the irrecoverable erosion of public support and a resulting “no win” presidency. In this sense, the pattern of…
The Impact of Televised Speeches and Foreign Travel on Presidential Approval
Considerable attention has been devoted in recent years to the use of political drama by the president, with the most discretionary forms of drama-speeches and foreign travel- receiving much scrutiny. In fact, there has arisen a conventional wisdom which asserts that televised speeches and foreign travel by the president (1) have increased over time, (2) exert a uni- formly positive impact on public evaluations of the president's performance, and…
The President's Public
Any analysis of the president's ability to influence citizen opinions is fundamentally tied to question about the attentiveness of the public, the stability of individual opinions, how citizens acquire and process information, and the impact of information on opinion change. Insofar as these questions are concerned, the absence of individual-level analyses creates a gap in the presidential approval literature. The aggregate-level studies, which c…
Presidential Vetoes and Congressional Response: A Study of Institutional Conflict
This paper presents an initial attempt at a systematic analysis of the veto process. The authors argue that outcomes at all three stages of the process-the veto decision, the override attempt, and the success of those attempts-depend upon the state of the political environment (e.g., stage of the electoral cycle) and the prevailing resources of the president. Relevant presidential resources are the proportion of congressional seats controlled by …
Promise and Performance: A Dynamic Model of Presidential Popularity
The growth of public opinion measurement in the last 40 years has added a new dimension to the study of presidential behavior. Not only have public evaluations become more newsworthy, but the importance of public support as a resource and determinant of political survival has been enhanced. Recent scholarship on the presidency has documented the value of public support, attempted to identify its major determinants, and speculated about the manner…
Managing Popular Support: The Presidential Dilemma
Promise and Performance: A Dynamic Model of Presidential Popularity
The growth of public opinion measurement in the last 40 years has added a new dimension to the study of presidential behavior. Not only have public evaluations become more newsworthy, but the importance of public support as a resource and determinant of political survival has been enhanced. Recent scholarship on the presidency has documented the value of public support, attempted to identify its major determinants, and speculated about the manner…
Presidential Vetoes and Congressional Response: A Study of Institutional Conflict
This paper presents an initial attempt at a systematic analysis of the veto process. The authors argue that outcomes at all three stages of the process-the veto decision, the override attempt, and the success of those attempts-depend upon the state of the political environment (e.g., stage of the electoral cycle) and the prevailing resources of the president. Relevant presidential resources are the proportion of congressional seats controlled by …
Foreign Policy and Presidential Popularity: Creating Windows of Opportunity in the Perpetual Election
Variations in public support for the president have been explained in three different ways. First, approval has been viewed as controlled by the law of inevitable decline. Second, public support has been characterized as a function of an “environmental connection” between chief executives and macrofeatures of the political and economic landscape. Finally, some view “political drama” (e.g., speeches, trips, diplomatic agreements, and so on) as an …
The Impact of Televised Speeches and Foreign Travel on Presidential Approval
Considerable attention has been devoted in recent years to the use of political drama by the president, with the most discretionary forms of drama-speeches and foreign travel- receiving much scrutiny. In fact, there has arisen a conventional wisdom which asserts that televised speeches and foreign travel by the president (1) have increased over time, (2) exert a uni- formly positive impact on public evaluations of the president's performance, and…
The President, Referendum Voting, and Subnational Elections in the United States
This research is designed to generalize a referendum voting model and investigate its ability to account for the aggregate outcomes of elections for the House, Senate, governorships, and upper and lower chambers of state legislatures. Our analysis shows that these outcomes are influenced by the same systematic short- and long-term forces. In addition to this common referendum structure, the analysis reveals that there is a common response to rand…
Presidents, Governors, and Electoral Accountability
This paper is designed to demonstrate that citizen evaluations of presidential performance operate as an influence on voting in gubernatorial elections. The discussion first highlights the debate over the impact of presidential support in national elections and presents aggregate-level evidence suggesting that this impact extends to gubernatorial contests. Next, an individual-level model of the gubernatorial vote is estimated using a pooled data …
The President's Public
Any analysis of the president's ability to influence citizen opinions is fundamentally tied to question about the attentiveness of the public, the stability of individual opinions, how citizens acquire and process information, and the impact of information on opinion change. Insofar as these questions are concerned, the absence of individual-level analyses creates a gap in the presidential approval literature. The aggregate-level studies, which c…
The Man in the Teflon Suit? The Environmental Connection, Political Drama, and Popular Support in the Reagan Presidency
An examination of public support during the presidency of Ronald Reagan reveals a unique pattern. The major features include two instances of rapidly declining support followed by historically unprecedented and sustained recoveries. The recovery of support is particularly surprising given that the literature of the early 1980s emphasizes the irrecoverable erosion of public support and a resulting “no win” presidency. In this sense, the pattern of…
Political Ambition and Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1916-2000
This analysis demonstrates how political ambition theory can be applied to women who have served in the U.S. House of Representatives: under what conditions do political women manifest discrete, static, and progressive ambition? Our database includes all women elected to the House between 1916 and 2000. In differentiating between discrete and static ambition, we find that among congressional widows, there are measurable differences between those …
When Women Run Against Women: The Hidden Influence of Female Incumbents in Elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1956–2002
Although it is well known that "when women run, they win as often as men," the literature on women and campaigns suggests that we should see significant differences in races involving male and female incumbents. Do female incumbents face the same competitive environment as their male counterparts in elections for the U.S. House of Representatives? Using the existing literature on the role of stereotypes and gender traits in campaigns, we formulat…
The Political Glass Ceiling: Gender, Strategy, and Incumbency in U.S. House Elections, 1978-1998
Why has the integration of women into elective office, particularly Congress, been so slow? We argue that incumbency and the general lack of competition in American elections serve as a “political glass ceiling,” having a dampening effect on the number of women running in both primary and general U.S. House elections. With data from House elections from 1978-1998, we find that although there have been general upward trends in the number of women …
The Roll Call Behavior of Men and Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1937–2008
Our analysis investigates the ideological differences in the voting records of male and female members of the U.S. House of Representatives using a relatively novel natural-experiment research design to account for variations in district-level factors. We ask whether it makes a difference when a woman succeeds a man or a man succeeds a woman in a given congressional district. To answer this question, we created a database consisting of predecesso…
Managing Popular Support: The Presidential Dilemma
Managing Popular Support: The Presidential Dilemma
Presidential Vetoes and Congressional Response: A Study of Institutional Conflict
This paper presents an initial attempt at a systematic analysis of the veto process. The authors argue that outcomes at all three stages of the process-the veto decision, the override attempt, and the success of those attempts-depend upon the state of the political environment (e.g., stage of the electoral cycle) and the prevailing resources of the president. Relevant presidential resources are the proportion of congressional seats controlled by …
Promise and Performance: A Dynamic Model of Presidential Popularity
The growth of public opinion measurement in the last 40 years has added a new dimension to the study of presidential behavior. Not only have public evaluations become more newsworthy, but the importance of public support as a resource and determinant of political survival has been enhanced. Recent scholarship on the presidency has documented the value of public support, attempted to identify its major determinants, and speculated about the manner…
The President's Public
Any analysis of the president's ability to influence citizen opinions is fundamentally tied to question about the attentiveness of the public, the stability of individual opinions, how citizens acquire and process information, and the impact of information on opinion change. Insofar as these questions are concerned, the absence of individual-level analyses creates a gap in the presidential approval literature. The aggregate-level studies, which c…
Presidents, Governors, and Electoral Accountability
This paper is designed to demonstrate that citizen evaluations of presidential performance operate as an influence on voting in gubernatorial elections. The discussion first highlights the debate over the impact of presidential support in national elections and presents aggregate-level evidence suggesting that this impact extends to gubernatorial contests. Next, an individual-level model of the gubernatorial vote is estimated using a pooled data …
The Man in the Teflon Suit? The Environmental Connection, Political Drama, and Popular Support in the Reagan Presidency
An examination of public support during the presidency of Ronald Reagan reveals a unique pattern. The major features include two instances of rapidly declining support followed by historically unprecedented and sustained recoveries. The recovery of support is particularly surprising given that the literature of the early 1980s emphasizes the irrecoverable erosion of public support and a resulting “no win” presidency. In this sense, the pattern of…
The Impact of Televised Speeches and Foreign Travel on Presidential Approval
Considerable attention has been devoted in recent years to the use of political drama by the president, with the most discretionary forms of drama-speeches and foreign travel- receiving much scrutiny. In fact, there has arisen a conventional wisdom which asserts that televised speeches and foreign travel by the president (1) have increased over time, (2) exert a uni- formly positive impact on public evaluations of the president's performance, and…
Foreign Policy and Presidential Popularity: Creating Windows of Opportunity in the Perpetual Election
Variations in public support for the president have been explained in three different ways. First, approval has been viewed as controlled by the law of inevitable decline. Second, public support has been characterized as a function of an “environmental connection” between chief executives and macrofeatures of the political and economic landscape. Finally, some view “political drama” (e.g., speeches, trips, diplomatic agreements, and so on) as an …
The President, Referendum Voting, and Subnational Elections in the United States
This research is designed to generalize a referendum voting model and investigate its ability to account for the aggregate outcomes of elections for the House, Senate, governorships, and upper and lower chambers of state legislatures. Our analysis shows that these outcomes are influenced by the same systematic short- and long-term forces. In addition to this common referendum structure, the analysis reveals that there is a common response to rand…
The Political Glass Ceiling: Gender, Strategy, and Incumbency in U.S. House Elections, 1978-1998
Why has the integration of women into elective office, particularly Congress, been so slow? We argue that incumbency and the general lack of competition in American elections serve as a “political glass ceiling,” having a dampening effect on the number of women running in both primary and general U.S. House elections. With data from House elections from 1978-1998, we find that although there have been general upward trends in the number of women …
Political Ambition and Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1916-2000
This analysis demonstrates how political ambition theory can be applied to women who have served in the U.S. House of Representatives: under what conditions do political women manifest discrete, static, and progressive ambition? Our database includes all women elected to the House between 1916 and 2000. In differentiating between discrete and static ambition, we find that among congressional widows, there are measurable differences between those …
Gender, Party and Political Change: The Evolution of a Democratic Advantage
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
When Women Run Against Women: The Hidden Influence of Female Incumbents in Elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1956–2002
Although it is well known that "when women run, they win as often as men," the literature on women and campaigns suggests that we should see significant differences in races involving male and female incumbents. Do female incumbents face the same competitive environment as their male counterparts in elections for the U.S. House of Representatives? Using the existing literature on the role of stereotypes and gender traits in campaigns, we formulat…
The Roll Call Behavior of Men and Women in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1937–2008
Our analysis investigates the ideological differences in the voting records of male and female members of the U.S. House of Representatives using a relatively novel natural-experiment research design to account for variations in district-level factors. We ask whether it makes a difference when a woman succeeds a man or a man succeeds a woman in a given congressional district. To answer this question, we created a database consisting of predecesso…
The trail blazers: Women as third-party candidates in elections to the U.S. House of Representatives, 1912–2012
Historically, very few female candidates have ever won election to the U.S. House of Representatives. In addition, very few third-party candidates have ever won election to the House. With data from 1912 to 2012 on more than 54,000 candidates, we provide an historical overview of third-party activity in general elections to the House and the participation of female candidates. Our analysis shows that third parties have been a consistent presence …
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