Adam J Newmark
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam J Newmark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam J |
| FAMILY NAME | Newmark |
| SIGNATURE | NEWMARK A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Appalachian State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5995-0930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Interest Group Coalitions in the States
Objective This article explores coalition joining among interest groups in the American states. The article seeks to fill gaps in the literature, foremost among them the lack of research on interest group coalitions in the American states. Methods The article draws on a new dataset based on a survey of over 2000 lobbyists in all 50 American states to reach conclusions about interest group coalition joining in the American states. Results Our desc…
Searching for avenues of influence: Multi-branch and multi-level lobbying in Washington, D.C. and the States
All of the Above: Lobbying Allied, Undecided, and Opposing Lawmakers in Committee and on the Floor
This paper asks: When seeking to influence legislation in Congress, do organized interests target legislative allies, opponents, undecideds, or some combination of these? We address this question with data from a survey of 836 Washington lobbyists. Our findings point to several conclusions, including the following: (1) Organized interests almost always lobby their legislative allies, whether they support or oppose legislation, and whether the leg…
Lobbying Conflict, Competition, and Working in Coalitions
Objective We examine the factors that affect interest group decisions to join coalitions rather than “go it alone.” Among the factors we consider are organization type, level of conflict, level of competition, and relative influence. Method We conduct a mail survey of lobbyists in five American states to determine the likelihood of interests working in coalitions. Results Our findings indicate that group type has little impact on group decisions …
Surviving Political Scandals: Why Some Transgressions End Political Careers and Others Do Not
Objective In this article, we examine several explanations for why some politicians survive political scandals and others do not. These explanations include the nature and magnitude of the scandal, the political environment, and how the politician responds to the scandal. Methods To identify scandals, we use the Lexis‐Nexis database of Associated Press State and Local Wire (APSLW) articles between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2014 to examine …
Lobbying regulation in the states revisited: What are we trying to measure, and how do we measure it
Comparing Introductory State and Local Government Textbooks
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The information portfolios of interest groups: An exploratory analysis
It’s all relative: Perceptions of interest group influence
When Sex Doesn't Sell: Political Scandals, Culture, and Media Coverage in the States
The determinants of media coverage of political scandals are examined through a content analysis of AP Wire stories in ten states from 1998 to 2005. Tests of the conventional explanations of the amount of media coverage demonstrate that political culture, institutional factors, and the prominence of the officials involved matter, but find only mixed evidence that scandal severity is an important factor. Contrary to assumptions, sexual scandals do…
Motivated Reasoning, Political Sophistication, and Associations between President Obama and Islam
Recent polls reveal that between 20% and 25% of Americans erroneously indicate that President Obama is a Muslim. In this article, we compare individuals' explicit responses on a survey about religion and politics with reaction time data from an Implicit Association Test (IAT) to investigate whether individuals truly associate Obama with Islam or are motivated reasoners who simply express negativity about the president when given the opportunity. …
Building the Reservoir to Nowhere: The Role of Agencies in Advocacy Coalitions
The purpose of the advocacy coalition framework is to explain policy change over time through an examination of the stability of advocacy coalitions within policy subsystems. Recently, scholars have confirmed that advocacy coalitions are held together by shared belief systems, specifically in distributive policy arenas. We contend that federal agencies, in distributive policy arenas, provide both the anchors and support systems for the developmen…
The Strange Disappearance of Investment in Human and Physical Capital in the United States
Many scholars have argued that there are strong incentives for states to spend less money on redistributive or consumption programs, such as welfare, and more on developmental or investment programs, such as highways. Yet, over the last few decades, the proportion of state budgets allocated to expenditures intended to develop human and physical capital, specifically education and highways, has declined. In real terms, spending on virtually every …
Pollution, Politics, and Preferences for Environmental Spending in the States
While state environmental and natural resource spending is designed to address actual environmental problems, the budget process is also inherently political. Thus, in the following article we ask a simple question: to what extent does state environmental and natural resource spending respond to the scope of environmental problems in a state, versus the demands of the political process? Unlike the bulk of previous research, we consider both aggre…
Business Mobilization and Public Policy in the U.S. States
Objective. The goal of this study is to examine how the political mobilization of business interests influences aggregate public policy outputs in the states. We examine the relationship between business mobilization and general state policy liberalism, as well as policy that we term state “business policy climate.” Methods. We construct a measure of the “business policy climate” from a number of tax and regulatory indicators in the states and ex…
Measuring State Legislative Lobbying Regulation, 1990-2003
Since 1990, the American states have adopted a variety of reforms to regulate lobbying in an attempt to address a host of ethical issues. Such regulation can have important impacts on a variety of aspects of the legislative process because it typically impacts the relationships between legislators and lobbyists. How does such lobbying regulation vary across the states and over time? I have developed a measure of state lobbying regulation from 199…
Collective Action and the Mobilization of Institutions
Bias in the composition of interest communities is often explained by reference to variations in the collective action constraint facing voluntary and nonvoluntary organizations. But with the exception of literature on PAC formation, studies of direct institutional mobilization are rare. More often than not, their mobilization advantages vis-à-vis problems of collective action are simply assumed. This paper fills this gap by testing the collectiv…
Mayflies and Old Bulls: Organization Persistence in State Interest Communities
Many conventional accounts of lobbying communities emphasize towering differences in political influence between for-profit and not-for-profit and public organizations and between institutions and membership groups or associations. A central cause of these differences in influence is said to be differences in the persistence of these types of groups in a lobbying system. We test this hypothesis by examining the short-term turnover of organized in…
Much of Politics Is Still Local: Multi-State Lobbying in State Interest Communities
A Dynamic Model of U.S. Senator Approval, 1981–2000
Using survey data in the states from 1981 to 2000, we explore the nature of public sentiment toward members of the U.S. Senate, compare aggregate senator approval to congressional approval, and examine the impact of several factors that may influence approval of both senators and their legislative institution. We hypothesize that presidential approval, partisanship, consumer expectations, inter-branch discord, national scandals, and rally-around-…
Much of Politics Is Still Local: Multi‐State Lobbying in State Interest Communities
We explore the nationalization of state lobbying communities by examining all lobbying registrations held by organizations in the 50 states in 1997, with special attention given to the frequency of multi‐state registrations. Following discussion of the meanings and sources of nationalization among state interest communities, we develop and analyze several measures of the level of localism, examining what factors drive variation in multiple state …
An Integrated Approach to Policy Transer and Diffusion
This article reviews the existing literature on policy transfer and diffusion and offers a more integrated theory for examining the spreading of policy. Typical studies have treated each as separate, yet they are similar in many respects. For example, both involve many of the same agents and processes involved in the spreading of policy. This article integrates the two literatures by developing a theoretical continuum upon which varying degrees o…
Measuring State Legislative Lobbying Regulation, 1990-2003
Since 1990, the American states have adopted a variety of reforms to regulate lobbying in an attempt to address a host of ethical issues. Such regulation can have important impacts on a variety of aspects of the legislative process because it typically impacts the relationships between legislators and lobbyists. How does such lobbying regulation vary across the states and over time? I have developed a measure of state lobbying regulation from 199…
Pollution, Politics, and Preferences for Environmental Spending in the States
While state environmental and natural resource spending is designed to address actual environmental problems, the budget process is also inherently political. Thus, in the following article we ask a simple question: to what extent does state environmental and natural resource spending respond to the scope of environmental problems in a state, versus the demands of the political process? Unlike the bulk of previous research, we consider both aggre…
Business Mobilization and Public Policy in the U.S. States
Objective. The goal of this study is to examine how the political mobilization of business interests influences aggregate public policy outputs in the states. We examine the relationship between business mobilization and general state policy liberalism, as well as policy that we term state “business policy climate.” Methods. We construct a measure of the “business policy climate” from a number of tax and regulatory indicators in the states and ex…
Mayflies and Old Bulls: Organization Persistence in State Interest Communities
Many conventional accounts of lobbying communities emphasize towering differences in political influence between for-profit and not-for-profit and public organizations and between institutions and membership groups or associations. A central cause of these differences in influence is said to be differences in the persistence of these types of groups in a lobbying system. We test this hypothesis by examining the short-term turnover of organized in…
An Integrated Approach to Policy Transer and Diffusion
This article reviews the existing literature on policy transfer and diffusion and offers a more integrated theory for examining the spreading of policy. Typical studies have treated each as separate, yet they are similar in many respects. For example, both involve many of the same agents and processes involved in the spreading of policy. This article integrates the two literatures by developing a theoretical continuum upon which varying degrees o…
Collective Action and the Mobilization of Institutions
Bias in the composition of interest communities is often explained by reference to variations in the collective action constraint facing voluntary and nonvoluntary organizations. But with the exception of literature on PAC formation, studies of direct institutional mobilization are rare. More often than not, their mobilization advantages vis-à-vis problems of collective action are simply assumed. This paper fills this gap by testing the collectiv…
Building the Reservoir to Nowhere: The Role of Agencies in Advocacy Coalitions
The purpose of the advocacy coalition framework is to explain policy change over time through an examination of the stability of advocacy coalitions within policy subsystems. Recently, scholars have confirmed that advocacy coalitions are held together by shared belief systems, specifically in distributive policy arenas. We contend that federal agencies, in distributive policy arenas, provide both the anchors and support systems for the developmen…
Motivated Reasoning, Political Sophistication, and Associations between President Obama and Islam
Recent polls reveal that between 20% and 25% of Americans erroneously indicate that President Obama is a Muslim. In this article, we compare individuals' explicit responses on a survey about religion and politics with reaction time data from an Implicit Association Test (IAT) to investigate whether individuals truly associate Obama with Islam or are motivated reasoners who simply express negativity about the president when given the opportunity. …
The Strange Disappearance of Investment in Human and Physical Capital in the United States
Many scholars have argued that there are strong incentives for states to spend less money on redistributive or consumption programs, such as welfare, and more on developmental or investment programs, such as highways. Yet, over the last few decades, the proportion of state budgets allocated to expenditures intended to develop human and physical capital, specifically education and highways, has declined. In real terms, spending on virtually every …
Lobbying regulation in the states revisited: What are we trying to measure, and how do we measure it
The information portfolios of interest groups: An exploratory analysis
Much of Politics Is Still Local: Multi‐State Lobbying in State Interest Communities
We explore the nationalization of state lobbying communities by examining all lobbying registrations held by organizations in the 50 states in 1997, with special attention given to the frequency of multi‐state registrations. Following discussion of the meanings and sources of nationalization among state interest communities, we develop and analyze several measures of the level of localism, examining what factors drive variation in multiple state …
All of the Above: Lobbying Allied, Undecided, and Opposing Lawmakers in Committee and on the Floor
This paper asks: When seeking to influence legislation in Congress, do organized interests target legislative allies, opponents, undecideds, or some combination of these? We address this question with data from a survey of 836 Washington lobbyists. Our findings point to several conclusions, including the following: (1) Organized interests almost always lobby their legislative allies, whether they support or oppose legislation, and whether the leg…
Surviving Political Scandals: Why Some Transgressions End Political Careers and Others Do Not
Objective In this article, we examine several explanations for why some politicians survive political scandals and others do not. These explanations include the nature and magnitude of the scandal, the political environment, and how the politician responds to the scandal. Methods To identify scandals, we use the Lexis‐Nexis database of Associated Press State and Local Wire (APSLW) articles between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2014 to examine …
It’s all relative: Perceptions of interest group influence
When Sex Doesn't Sell: Political Scandals, Culture, and Media Coverage in the States
The determinants of media coverage of political scandals are examined through a content analysis of AP Wire stories in ten states from 1998 to 2005. Tests of the conventional explanations of the amount of media coverage demonstrate that political culture, institutional factors, and the prominence of the officials involved matter, but find only mixed evidence that scandal severity is an important factor. Contrary to assumptions, sexual scandals do…
A Dynamic Model of U.S. Senator Approval, 1981–2000
Using survey data in the states from 1981 to 2000, we explore the nature of public sentiment toward members of the U.S. Senate, compare aggregate senator approval to congressional approval, and examine the impact of several factors that may influence approval of both senators and their legislative institution. We hypothesize that presidential approval, partisanship, consumer expectations, inter-branch discord, national scandals, and rally-around-…
Lobbying Conflict, Competition, and Working in Coalitions
Objective We examine the factors that affect interest group decisions to join coalitions rather than “go it alone.” Among the factors we consider are organization type, level of conflict, level of competition, and relative influence. Method We conduct a mail survey of lobbyists in five American states to determine the likelihood of interests working in coalitions. Results Our findings indicate that group type has little impact on group decisions …
Comparing Introductory State and Local Government Textbooks
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Much of Politics Is Still Local: Multi-State Lobbying in State Interest Communities
A Dynamic Model of U.S. Senator Approval, 1981–2000
Using survey data in the states from 1981 to 2000, we explore the nature of public sentiment toward members of the U.S. Senate, compare aggregate senator approval to congressional approval, and examine the impact of several factors that may influence approval of both senators and their legislative institution. We hypothesize that presidential approval, partisanship, consumer expectations, inter-branch discord, national scandals, and rally-around-…
Much of Politics Is Still Local: Multi‐State Lobbying in State Interest Communities
We explore the nationalization of state lobbying communities by examining all lobbying registrations held by organizations in the 50 states in 1997, with special attention given to the frequency of multi‐state registrations. Following discussion of the meanings and sources of nationalization among state interest communities, we develop and analyze several measures of the level of localism, examining what factors drive variation in multiple state …
An Integrated Approach to Policy Transer and Diffusion
This article reviews the existing literature on policy transfer and diffusion and offers a more integrated theory for examining the spreading of policy. Typical studies have treated each as separate, yet they are similar in many respects. For example, both involve many of the same agents and processes involved in the spreading of policy. This article integrates the two literatures by developing a theoretical continuum upon which varying degrees o…
Collective Action and the Mobilization of Institutions
Bias in the composition of interest communities is often explained by reference to variations in the collective action constraint facing voluntary and nonvoluntary organizations. But with the exception of literature on PAC formation, studies of direct institutional mobilization are rare. More often than not, their mobilization advantages vis-à-vis problems of collective action are simply assumed. This paper fills this gap by testing the collectiv…
Mayflies and Old Bulls: Organization Persistence in State Interest Communities
Many conventional accounts of lobbying communities emphasize towering differences in political influence between for-profit and not-for-profit and public organizations and between institutions and membership groups or associations. A central cause of these differences in influence is said to be differences in the persistence of these types of groups in a lobbying system. We test this hypothesis by examining the short-term turnover of organized in…
Business Mobilization and Public Policy in the U.S. States
Objective. The goal of this study is to examine how the political mobilization of business interests influences aggregate public policy outputs in the states. We examine the relationship between business mobilization and general state policy liberalism, as well as policy that we term state “business policy climate.” Methods. We construct a measure of the “business policy climate” from a number of tax and regulatory indicators in the states and ex…
Measuring State Legislative Lobbying Regulation, 1990-2003
Since 1990, the American states have adopted a variety of reforms to regulate lobbying in an attempt to address a host of ethical issues. Such regulation can have important impacts on a variety of aspects of the legislative process because it typically impacts the relationships between legislators and lobbyists. How does such lobbying regulation vary across the states and over time? I have developed a measure of state lobbying regulation from 199…
Pollution, Politics, and Preferences for Environmental Spending in the States
While state environmental and natural resource spending is designed to address actual environmental problems, the budget process is also inherently political. Thus, in the following article we ask a simple question: to what extent does state environmental and natural resource spending respond to the scope of environmental problems in a state, versus the demands of the political process? Unlike the bulk of previous research, we consider both aggre…
Building the Reservoir to Nowhere: The Role of Agencies in Advocacy Coalitions
The purpose of the advocacy coalition framework is to explain policy change over time through an examination of the stability of advocacy coalitions within policy subsystems. Recently, scholars have confirmed that advocacy coalitions are held together by shared belief systems, specifically in distributive policy arenas. We contend that federal agencies, in distributive policy arenas, provide both the anchors and support systems for the developmen…
The Strange Disappearance of Investment in Human and Physical Capital in the United States
Many scholars have argued that there are strong incentives for states to spend less money on redistributive or consumption programs, such as welfare, and more on developmental or investment programs, such as highways. Yet, over the last few decades, the proportion of state budgets allocated to expenditures intended to develop human and physical capital, specifically education and highways, has declined. In real terms, spending on virtually every …
Motivated Reasoning, Political Sophistication, and Associations between President Obama and Islam
Recent polls reveal that between 20% and 25% of Americans erroneously indicate that President Obama is a Muslim. In this article, we compare individuals' explicit responses on a survey about religion and politics with reaction time data from an Implicit Association Test (IAT) to investigate whether individuals truly associate Obama with Islam or are motivated reasoners who simply express negativity about the president when given the opportunity. …
When Sex Doesn't Sell: Political Scandals, Culture, and Media Coverage in the States
The determinants of media coverage of political scandals are examined through a content analysis of AP Wire stories in ten states from 1998 to 2005. Tests of the conventional explanations of the amount of media coverage demonstrate that political culture, institutional factors, and the prominence of the officials involved matter, but find only mixed evidence that scandal severity is an important factor. Contrary to assumptions, sexual scandals do…
The information portfolios of interest groups: An exploratory analysis
It’s all relative: Perceptions of interest group influence
Lobbying regulation in the states revisited: What are we trying to measure, and how do we measure it
Comparing Introductory State and Local Government Textbooks
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Lobbying Conflict, Competition, and Working in Coalitions
Objective We examine the factors that affect interest group decisions to join coalitions rather than “go it alone.” Among the factors we consider are organization type, level of conflict, level of competition, and relative influence. Method We conduct a mail survey of lobbyists in five American states to determine the likelihood of interests working in coalitions. Results Our findings indicate that group type has little impact on group decisions …
Surviving Political Scandals: Why Some Transgressions End Political Careers and Others Do Not
Objective In this article, we examine several explanations for why some politicians survive political scandals and others do not. These explanations include the nature and magnitude of the scandal, the political environment, and how the politician responds to the scandal. Methods To identify scandals, we use the Lexis‐Nexis database of Associated Press State and Local Wire (APSLW) articles between January 1, 2011 and December 31, 2014 to examine …
Searching for avenues of influence: Multi-branch and multi-level lobbying in Washington, D.C. and the States
All of the Above: Lobbying Allied, Undecided, and Opposing Lawmakers in Committee and on the Floor
This paper asks: When seeking to influence legislation in Congress, do organized interests target legislative allies, opponents, undecideds, or some combination of these? We address this question with data from a survey of 836 Washington lobbyists. Our findings point to several conclusions, including the following: (1) Organized interests almost always lobby their legislative allies, whether they support or oppose legislation, and whether the leg…
Interest Group Coalitions in the States
Objective This article explores coalition joining among interest groups in the American states. The article seeks to fill gaps in the literature, foremost among them the lack of research on interest group coalitions in the American states. Methods The article draws on a new dataset based on a survey of over 2000 lobbyists in all 50 American states to reach conclusions about interest group coalition joining in the American states. Results Our desc…
Political science (22 works) · Law (19 works) · Politics (17 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Public Administration (9 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)