George Glasgow
Biographic Data
| ID | 1237009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Glasgow |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Glasgow |
| SIGNATURE | GLASGOW G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6418-5188 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 919 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1932 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The California Voting Rights Act and Uncontested City Council Seats
The California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) prohibits local governments from holding at-large elections in a way that impairs the ability of a racial minority or other protected class to elect candidates of its choice. Local governments found to be in violation of the CVRA are required to switch to district elections, which in practice has meant single-member district elections. While there is evidence that the CVRA is achieving its aim of increasing…
The Loma Prieta earthquake and the cost of voting in the 1989 San Francisco municipal election: Evidence from a natural experiment
On October 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the central coast of California. Three weeks later, on November 7, 1989, San Francisco held a municipal election. A dozen polling places had been destroyed or were otherwise inaccessible to the public due to the earthquake, so new polling places were selected for the affected precincts in the days leading up to the election. This case represents a credible natural experiment examining how cha…
The Influence of Environmentalism on Attitudes Toward Local Agriculture and Urban Expansion
This article uses the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) to examine attitudes toward local agriculture and land use issues in Santa Barbara County (SBC), California. To do so, we use data collected for the Central Coast Survey in 2010. Although our study has a narrow geographic scope, it has broad implications. Our results suggest that people with stronger pro-environment views support agriculture, and prefer it over urban expansion, but are also crit…
A New Approach to the Study of Parties Entering Government
Previous studies of the factors that influence the ability of parties to join governments have estimated binary choice models using the parties as the unit of analysis, which inappropriately treats each party in a government formation opportunity as an independent observation (a problem that clustered standard errors do not solve) and does not allow researchers to control for important coalition-level effects. This article demonstrates that a pre…
Local Development Policies and the Foreclosure Crisis in California: Can Local Policies Hold Back National Tides
Can local governments shape the long-run fortunes of their communities through their own policies, or is the autonomy of localities swamped by larger macroeconomic forces? This study considers the relationship between California municipalities’ policy orientations toward residential development at the start of the housing boom in the late 1990s and the subsequent incidence of foreclosures during the housing crisis in 2008 and 2009. The authors fi…
New Empirical Strategies for the Study of Parliamentary Government Formation
In recent years, a consensus has developed that the conditional logit (CL) model is the most appropriate strategy for modeling government choice. In this paper, we reconsider this approach and make three methodological contributions. First, we employ a mixed logit with random coefficients that allows us to take account of unobserved heterogeneity in the government formation process and relax the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) assum…
Introduction to the Virtual Issue: Recent Advances in Discrete Choice Methods in Political Science
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
Who “Wins”? Determining the Party of the Prime Minister
The prime ministership is the preeminent political post in parliamentary democracies. Yet few studies examine PM party choice, perhaps under the assumption that the choice is a simple function of party size. In this article, we argue that key strategic actors and the context in which government negotiations take place can play a critical role in PM party choice. We test our hypotheses using a mixed logit with random coefficients on an original da…
Do local landmark bridges increase the suicide rate? An alternative test of the likely effect of means restriction at suicide-jumping sites
Testing assumptions underlying economic research on transgenic food crops for Third World farmers: Evidence from Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico
Are Niche Parties Fundamentally Different from Mainstream Parties? The Causes and the Electoral Consequences of Western European Parties' Policy Shifts, 1976–1998
Do “niche” parties—such as Communist, Green, and extreme nationalist parties—adjust their policies in response to shifts in public opinion? Would such policy responsiveness enhance these parties' electoral support? We report the results of statistical analyses of the relationship between parties' policy positions, voters' policy preferences, and election outcomes in eight Western European democracies from 1976 to 1998 that suggest that the answer…
Evidence of Group-Based Economic Voting: Nafta and Union Households in the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election
Evidence of Group-Based Economic Voting: Nafta and Union Households in the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election
Previous research has found no evidence of group-based economic voting. However, these studies relied on perceptions of general group economic well-being, a goal which voters could pursue through other economic information such as the state of the general economy. Here I test for group-based economic voting by considering perceptions an issue related to group-specific economic interests that cannot be met simply through an improved national econo…
Is there a relationship between election outcomes and perceptions of personal economic well-being? A test using post-election economic expectations
Voting behavior and the electoral context of government formation
Understanding Change and Stability in Party Ideologies: Do Parties Respond to Public Opinion or to Past Election Results
Previous research explains the evolution of parties' ideological positions in terms of decision rules that stress the uncertainty of the political environment. The authors extend this research by examining whether parties adjust their ideologies in response to two possible influences: shifts in public opinion, and past election results. Their empirical analyses, which are based on the Comparative Manifesto Project's codings of parties' post-war p…
Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy
Journal Article Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy Get access Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy by Constantine J. Spiliotes. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2002. 212 pp. $39.95. Garrett Glasgow Garrett Glasgow University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterl…
The Efficiency of Congressional Campaign Committee Contributions in House Elections
The Republican Party has historically held a strong financial advantage over the Democrats in Congressional elections. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) generally has a large resource advantage over the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Congressional elections, allowing the Republicans to outcontribute the Democrats in most Congressional districts. Further, the NRCC also led the DCCC in developing a centra…
Mixed Logit Models for Multiparty Elections
Mixed logit (MXL) is a general discrete choice model thus far unexamined in the study of multicandidate and multiparty elections. Mixed logit assumes that the unobserved portions of utility are a mixture of an IID extreme value term and another multivariate distribution selected by the researcher. This general specification allows MXL to avoid imposing the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) property on the choice probabilities. Further…
Two-Stage Estimation of Nonrecursive Choice Models
Questions of causation are important issues in empirical research on political behavior. Most of the discussion of the econometric problems associated with multiequation models with reciprocal causation has focused on models with continuous dependent variables (e.g., Markus and Converse 1979; Page and Jones 1979). Yet, many models of political behavior involve discrete or dichotomous dependent variables; this paper describes two techniques which …
The Scottish Investment Trust Companies
Are Niche Parties Fundamentally Different from Mainstream Parties? The Causes and the Electoral Consequences of Western European Parties' Policy Shifts, 1976–1998
Do “niche” parties—such as Communist, Green, and extreme nationalist parties—adjust their policies in response to shifts in public opinion? Would such policy responsiveness enhance these parties' electoral support? We report the results of statistical analyses of the relationship between parties' policy positions, voters' policy preferences, and election outcomes in eight Western European democracies from 1976 to 1998 that suggest that the answer…
Understanding Change and Stability in Party Ideologies: Do Parties Respond to Public Opinion or to Past Election Results
Previous research explains the evolution of parties' ideological positions in terms of decision rules that stress the uncertainty of the political environment. The authors extend this research by examining whether parties adjust their ideologies in response to two possible influences: shifts in public opinion, and past election results. Their empirical analyses, which are based on the Comparative Manifesto Project's codings of parties' post-war p…
Two-Stage Estimation of Nonrecursive Choice Models
Questions of causation are important issues in empirical research on political behavior. Most of the discussion of the econometric problems associated with multiequation models with reciprocal causation has focused on models with continuous dependent variables (e.g., Markus and Converse 1979; Page and Jones 1979). Yet, many models of political behavior involve discrete or dichotomous dependent variables; this paper describes two techniques which …
Who “Wins”? Determining the Party of the Prime Minister
The prime ministership is the preeminent political post in parliamentary democracies. Yet few studies examine PM party choice, perhaps under the assumption that the choice is a simple function of party size. In this article, we argue that key strategic actors and the context in which government negotiations take place can play a critical role in PM party choice. We test our hypotheses using a mixed logit with random coefficients on an original da…
Mixed Logit Models for Multiparty Elections
Mixed logit (MXL) is a general discrete choice model thus far unexamined in the study of multicandidate and multiparty elections. Mixed logit assumes that the unobserved portions of utility are a mixture of an IID extreme value term and another multivariate distribution selected by the researcher. This general specification allows MXL to avoid imposing the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) property on the choice probabilities. Further…
New Empirical Strategies for the Study of Parliamentary Government Formation
In recent years, a consensus has developed that the conditional logit (CL) model is the most appropriate strategy for modeling government choice. In this paper, we reconsider this approach and make three methodological contributions. First, we employ a mixed logit with random coefficients that allows us to take account of unobserved heterogeneity in the government formation process and relax the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) assum…
A New Approach to the Study of Parties Entering Government
Previous studies of the factors that influence the ability of parties to join governments have estimated binary choice models using the parties as the unit of analysis, which inappropriately treats each party in a government formation opportunity as an independent observation (a problem that clustered standard errors do not solve) and does not allow researchers to control for important coalition-level effects. This article demonstrates that a pre…
Voting behavior and the electoral context of government formation
Evidence of Group-Based Economic Voting: Nafta and Union Households in the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election
Previous research has found no evidence of group-based economic voting. However, these studies relied on perceptions of general group economic well-being, a goal which voters could pursue through other economic information such as the state of the general economy. Here I test for group-based economic voting by considering perceptions an issue related to group-specific economic interests that cannot be met simply through an improved national econo…
Local Development Policies and the Foreclosure Crisis in California: Can Local Policies Hold Back National Tides
Can local governments shape the long-run fortunes of their communities through their own policies, or is the autonomy of localities swamped by larger macroeconomic forces? This study considers the relationship between California municipalities’ policy orientations toward residential development at the start of the housing boom in the late 1990s and the subsequent incidence of foreclosures during the housing crisis in 2008 and 2009. The authors fi…
The Efficiency of Congressional Campaign Committee Contributions in House Elections
The Republican Party has historically held a strong financial advantage over the Democrats in Congressional elections. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) generally has a large resource advantage over the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Congressional elections, allowing the Republicans to outcontribute the Democrats in most Congressional districts. Further, the NRCC also led the DCCC in developing a centra…
Is there a relationship between election outcomes and perceptions of personal economic well-being? A test using post-election economic expectations
The Influence of Environmentalism on Attitudes Toward Local Agriculture and Urban Expansion
This article uses the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) to examine attitudes toward local agriculture and land use issues in Santa Barbara County (SBC), California. To do so, we use data collected for the Central Coast Survey in 2010. Although our study has a narrow geographic scope, it has broad implications. Our results suggest that people with stronger pro-environment views support agriculture, and prefer it over urban expansion, but are also crit…
Introduction to the Virtual Issue: Recent Advances in Discrete Choice Methods in Political Science
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
Do local landmark bridges increase the suicide rate? An alternative test of the likely effect of means restriction at suicide-jumping sites
The Scottish Investment Trust Companies
Two-Stage Estimation of Nonrecursive Choice Models
Questions of causation are important issues in empirical research on political behavior. Most of the discussion of the econometric problems associated with multiequation models with reciprocal causation has focused on models with continuous dependent variables (e.g., Markus and Converse 1979; Page and Jones 1979). Yet, many models of political behavior involve discrete or dichotomous dependent variables; this paper describes two techniques which …
Mixed Logit Models for Multiparty Elections
Mixed logit (MXL) is a general discrete choice model thus far unexamined in the study of multicandidate and multiparty elections. Mixed logit assumes that the unobserved portions of utility are a mixture of an IID extreme value term and another multivariate distribution selected by the researcher. This general specification allows MXL to avoid imposing the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) property on the choice probabilities. Further…
The Efficiency of Congressional Campaign Committee Contributions in House Elections
The Republican Party has historically held a strong financial advantage over the Democrats in Congressional elections. The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) generally has a large resource advantage over the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) in Congressional elections, allowing the Republicans to outcontribute the Democrats in most Congressional districts. Further, the NRCC also led the DCCC in developing a centra…
Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy
Journal Article Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy Get access Vicious Cycle: Presidential Decision Making in the American Political Economy by Constantine J. Spiliotes. College Station, Texas A&M University Press, 2002. 212 pp. $39.95. Garrett Glasgow Garrett Glasgow University of California, Santa Barbara Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterl…
Understanding Change and Stability in Party Ideologies: Do Parties Respond to Public Opinion or to Past Election Results
Previous research explains the evolution of parties' ideological positions in terms of decision rules that stress the uncertainty of the political environment. The authors extend this research by examining whether parties adjust their ideologies in response to two possible influences: shifts in public opinion, and past election results. Their empirical analyses, which are based on the Comparative Manifesto Project's codings of parties' post-war p…
Evidence of Group-Based Economic Voting: Nafta and Union Households in the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election
Evidence of Group-Based Economic Voting: Nafta and Union Households in the 1992 U.S. Presidential Election
Previous research has found no evidence of group-based economic voting. However, these studies relied on perceptions of general group economic well-being, a goal which voters could pursue through other economic information such as the state of the general economy. Here I test for group-based economic voting by considering perceptions an issue related to group-specific economic interests that cannot be met simply through an improved national econo…
Is there a relationship between election outcomes and perceptions of personal economic well-being? A test using post-election economic expectations
Voting behavior and the electoral context of government formation
Are Niche Parties Fundamentally Different from Mainstream Parties? The Causes and the Electoral Consequences of Western European Parties' Policy Shifts, 1976–1998
Do “niche” parties—such as Communist, Green, and extreme nationalist parties—adjust their policies in response to shifts in public opinion? Would such policy responsiveness enhance these parties' electoral support? We report the results of statistical analyses of the relationship between parties' policy positions, voters' policy preferences, and election outcomes in eight Western European democracies from 1976 to 1998 that suggest that the answer…
Testing assumptions underlying economic research on transgenic food crops for Third World farmers: Evidence from Cuba, Guatemala and Mexico
Introduction to the Virtual Issue: Recent Advances in Discrete Choice Methods in Political Science
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
Who “Wins”? Determining the Party of the Prime Minister
The prime ministership is the preeminent political post in parliamentary democracies. Yet few studies examine PM party choice, perhaps under the assumption that the choice is a simple function of party size. In this article, we argue that key strategic actors and the context in which government negotiations take place can play a critical role in PM party choice. We test our hypotheses using a mixed logit with random coefficients on an original da…
Do local landmark bridges increase the suicide rate? An alternative test of the likely effect of means restriction at suicide-jumping sites
Local Development Policies and the Foreclosure Crisis in California: Can Local Policies Hold Back National Tides
Can local governments shape the long-run fortunes of their communities through their own policies, or is the autonomy of localities swamped by larger macroeconomic forces? This study considers the relationship between California municipalities’ policy orientations toward residential development at the start of the housing boom in the late 1990s and the subsequent incidence of foreclosures during the housing crisis in 2008 and 2009. The authors fi…
New Empirical Strategies for the Study of Parliamentary Government Formation
In recent years, a consensus has developed that the conditional logit (CL) model is the most appropriate strategy for modeling government choice. In this paper, we reconsider this approach and make three methodological contributions. First, we employ a mixed logit with random coefficients that allows us to take account of unobserved heterogeneity in the government formation process and relax the independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA) assum…
The Influence of Environmentalism on Attitudes Toward Local Agriculture and Urban Expansion
This article uses the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) to examine attitudes toward local agriculture and land use issues in Santa Barbara County (SBC), California. To do so, we use data collected for the Central Coast Survey in 2010. Although our study has a narrow geographic scope, it has broad implications. Our results suggest that people with stronger pro-environment views support agriculture, and prefer it over urban expansion, but are also crit…
A New Approach to the Study of Parties Entering Government
Previous studies of the factors that influence the ability of parties to join governments have estimated binary choice models using the parties as the unit of analysis, which inappropriately treats each party in a government formation opportunity as an independent observation (a problem that clustered standard errors do not solve) and does not allow researchers to control for important coalition-level effects. This article demonstrates that a pre…
The Loma Prieta earthquake and the cost of voting in the 1989 San Francisco municipal election: Evidence from a natural experiment
On October 17, 1989, the Loma Prieta earthquake struck the central coast of California. Three weeks later, on November 7, 1989, San Francisco held a municipal election. A dozen polling places had been destroyed or were otherwise inaccessible to the public due to the earthquake, so new polling places were selected for the affected precincts in the days leading up to the election. This case represents a credible natural experiment examining how cha…
The California Voting Rights Act and Uncontested City Council Seats
The California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) prohibits local governments from holding at-large elections in a way that impairs the ability of a racial minority or other protected class to elect candidates of its choice. Local governments found to be in violation of the CVRA are required to switch to district elections, which in practice has meant single-member district elections. While there is evidence that the CVRA is achieving its aim of increasing…
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