David W Romero
Biographic Data
| ID | 1493166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David W Romero |
| GIVEN NAMES | David W |
| FAMILY NAME | Romero |
| SIGNATURE | ROMERO D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5446-1070 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
National Presidential Election Turnout: 1952 To 2020
In an era when elections scholars expected American national presidential election turnout to increase, its steep, prolonged post-1960 decline sparked deep concern and generated an avalanche of individual-level analyses searching for explanation. The post-1960 decline, however, no longer dominates turnout’s trajectory; it has been on the upswing since 1996. This complicates our understanding as we have yet to settle on turnout’s description, much…
What They Do Does Matter: Incumbent Resource Allocations and the Individual House Vote
The Prospects-Based Dynamics of the House Candidacy Decision
Strategic politicians thesis studies examine the candidacy phenomenon in general and primary elections, typically testing the influence electoral prospects have on the candidacy decision (indirectly in general elections, directly in primary elections). However, because the candidacy phenomena are different in the two arenas, they offer varying opportunities for theory development. Primary elections, where the phenomena are candidacy decisions, of…
Divisive Primaries And The House District Vote: A Pooled Analysis
The verdict on the divisive primary hypothesis has fluctuated as investigators have pursued a variety of theoretical and methodological debates. Although most recent studies find that divisive primaries harm general election outcomes, some claim that this effect is spurious, an artifact of uncontrolled electoral prospects phenomena. I argue that this claim is debatable because it rests on questionable conceptual and model constructs and evidence …
Precedent, Parity, and Racial Discrimination: A Federal/State Comparison of the Impact of Brown v. Board of Education
Questions regarding Brown v. Board of Education's short-term effect remain unanswered, particularly its comparative impact on federal district courts and state supreme courts. We test this through an analysis of racial discrimination cases in those venues in the twenty-year period bifurcated by the decision in May 1954. Our findings suggest that while federal district courts and state courts were similarly unresponsive to discrimination claims be…
Requiem for a Lightweight: Vice Presidential Candidate Evaluations and the Presidential Vote
Presidential election scholars have recently begun to explore whether vice presidential nominees have a meaningful influence on the presidential vote. Their findings are in conflict. Aggregate‐level analyses find little support for the hypothesis that vice presidential candidates bring their ticket any regional or home state advantage. Individual‐level analyses, on the other hand, find that vice presidential nominees have a surprisingly powerful …
Requiem for a Lightweight: Vice Presidential Candidate Evaluations and the Presidential Vote
The Case of the Missing Reciprocal Influence: Incumbent Reputation and the Vote
Demonstrating that what incumbents do brings them electoral reward has proven surprisingly frustrating. At the individual level, the best evidence for this hypothesis comes from studies which employ voters' subjective assessments of their incumbents' casework-related activities. Some scholars, however, claim these findings are due to rationalization effects: voters have favorable assessment of their incumbents because they intend to support them …
Personal Economic Well-Being and the Individual Vote for Congress: A Pooled Analysis, 1980-1990
For nearly two decades congressional elections scholars have struggled to match individual-level findings for the pocketbook voting thesis with ag gregate-level findings. Whereas strong and consistent support can be found for the pocketbook thesis in presidential elections with both individual- level and aggregate-level data, significant support has been found for this thesis in U.S. House elections with aggregate-level data only. The typical ind…
Loosened Partisan Attachments and Receptivity to Incumbent Behaviors: A Panel Analysis, 1972-1976
Loosened Partisan Attachments and Receptivity to Incumbent Behaviors: A Panel Analysis, 1972-1976
An established hypothesis explaining the increased incumbency advantage is that incumbents reaped the benefit of the reduction in partisan identification's influence on the congressional vote. Briefly, the hypothesis maintains that as partisan identification's influence waned incumbent behavior's influence increased. The increased incumbency advantage is then the result of incumbents actively attracting voters whose decision is based less on part…
Asymmetric partisan advantage and limited strategic calculation: Why Republican challengers appear unresponsive to national partisan trend
Ballots of Tumult: A Portrait of Volatility in American Voting. Courtney Brown
Candidate Equilibrium and the Behavioral Model of the Vote
Most applications of spatial modeling to the problem of electoral competition are pessimistic regarding the prospects for candidate equilibrium in more than one policy dimension. Probabilistic models of the vote, however, increase the likelihood of equilibrium. We expand the probabilistic model to include measured nonissue variables, thereby representing the general multivariate model of behavioral research. For this model we offer a general cand…
Group Components of the Presidential Vote, 1952-1984
Except for bivariate analyses, previous research on the group basis of partisan strength in the United States has focused on party identification as the dependent variable. This essay examines the group basis of the presidential vote, 1952-1984, using a multivariate logit approach. Our multivariate analysis shows the persistence of group-based divisions between Republican and Democratic voters. Among other patterns, class-based divisions have not…
Candidate Equilibrium and the Behavioral Model of the Vote
Most applications of spatial modeling to the problem of electoral competition are pessimistic regarding the prospects for candidate equilibrium in more than one policy dimension. Probabilistic models of the vote, however, increase the likelihood of equilibrium. We expand the probabilistic model to include measured nonissue variables, thereby representing the general multivariate model of behavioral research. For this model we offer a general cand…
Group Components of the Presidential Vote, 1952-1984
Except for bivariate analyses, previous research on the group basis of partisan strength in the United States has focused on party identification as the dependent variable. This essay examines the group basis of the presidential vote, 1952-1984, using a multivariate logit approach. Our multivariate analysis shows the persistence of group-based divisions between Republican and Democratic voters. Among other patterns, class-based divisions have not…
Personal Economic Well-Being and the Individual Vote for Congress: A Pooled Analysis, 1980-1990
For nearly two decades congressional elections scholars have struggled to match individual-level findings for the pocketbook voting thesis with ag gregate-level findings. Whereas strong and consistent support can be found for the pocketbook thesis in presidential elections with both individual- level and aggregate-level data, significant support has been found for this thesis in U.S. House elections with aggregate-level data only. The typical ind…
Requiem for a Lightweight: Vice Presidential Candidate Evaluations and the Presidential Vote
Presidential election scholars have recently begun to explore whether vice presidential nominees have a meaningful influence on the presidential vote. Their findings are in conflict. Aggregate‐level analyses find little support for the hypothesis that vice presidential candidates bring their ticket any regional or home state advantage. Individual‐level analyses, on the other hand, find that vice presidential nominees have a surprisingly powerful …
Loosened Partisan Attachments and Receptivity to Incumbent Behaviors: A Panel Analysis, 1972-1976
An established hypothesis explaining the increased incumbency advantage is that incumbents reaped the benefit of the reduction in partisan identification's influence on the congressional vote. Briefly, the hypothesis maintains that as partisan identification's influence waned incumbent behavior's influence increased. The increased incumbency advantage is then the result of incumbents actively attracting voters whose decision is based less on part…
Divisive Primaries And The House District Vote: A Pooled Analysis
The verdict on the divisive primary hypothesis has fluctuated as investigators have pursued a variety of theoretical and methodological debates. Although most recent studies find that divisive primaries harm general election outcomes, some claim that this effect is spurious, an artifact of uncontrolled electoral prospects phenomena. I argue that this claim is debatable because it rests on questionable conceptual and model constructs and evidence …
What They Do Does Matter: Incumbent Resource Allocations and the Individual House Vote
Precedent, Parity, and Racial Discrimination: A Federal/State Comparison of the Impact of Brown v. Board of Education
Questions regarding Brown v. Board of Education's short-term effect remain unanswered, particularly its comparative impact on federal district courts and state supreme courts. We test this through an analysis of racial discrimination cases in those venues in the twenty-year period bifurcated by the decision in May 1954. Our findings suggest that while federal district courts and state courts were similarly unresponsive to discrimination claims be…
The Prospects-Based Dynamics of the House Candidacy Decision
Strategic politicians thesis studies examine the candidacy phenomenon in general and primary elections, typically testing the influence electoral prospects have on the candidacy decision (indirectly in general elections, directly in primary elections). However, because the candidacy phenomena are different in the two arenas, they offer varying opportunities for theory development. Primary elections, where the phenomena are candidacy decisions, of…
The Case of the Missing Reciprocal Influence: Incumbent Reputation and the Vote
Demonstrating that what incumbents do brings them electoral reward has proven surprisingly frustrating. At the individual level, the best evidence for this hypothesis comes from studies which employ voters' subjective assessments of their incumbents' casework-related activities. Some scholars, however, claim these findings are due to rationalization effects: voters have favorable assessment of their incumbents because they intend to support them …
National Presidential Election Turnout: 1952 To 2020
In an era when elections scholars expected American national presidential election turnout to increase, its steep, prolonged post-1960 decline sparked deep concern and generated an avalanche of individual-level analyses searching for explanation. The post-1960 decline, however, no longer dominates turnout’s trajectory; it has been on the upswing since 1996. This complicates our understanding as we have yet to settle on turnout’s description, much…
Group Components of the Presidential Vote, 1952-1984
Except for bivariate analyses, previous research on the group basis of partisan strength in the United States has focused on party identification as the dependent variable. This essay examines the group basis of the presidential vote, 1952-1984, using a multivariate logit approach. Our multivariate analysis shows the persistence of group-based divisions between Republican and Democratic voters. Among other patterns, class-based divisions have not…
Candidate Equilibrium and the Behavioral Model of the Vote
Most applications of spatial modeling to the problem of electoral competition are pessimistic regarding the prospects for candidate equilibrium in more than one policy dimension. Probabilistic models of the vote, however, increase the likelihood of equilibrium. We expand the probabilistic model to include measured nonissue variables, thereby representing the general multivariate model of behavioral research. For this model we offer a general cand…
Ballots of Tumult: A Portrait of Volatility in American Voting. Courtney Brown
Asymmetric partisan advantage and limited strategic calculation: Why Republican challengers appear unresponsive to national partisan trend
Loosened Partisan Attachments and Receptivity to Incumbent Behaviors: A Panel Analysis, 1972-1976
Loosened Partisan Attachments and Receptivity to Incumbent Behaviors: A Panel Analysis, 1972-1976
An established hypothesis explaining the increased incumbency advantage is that incumbents reaped the benefit of the reduction in partisan identification's influence on the congressional vote. Briefly, the hypothesis maintains that as partisan identification's influence waned incumbent behavior's influence increased. The increased incumbency advantage is then the result of incumbents actively attracting voters whose decision is based less on part…
The Case of the Missing Reciprocal Influence: Incumbent Reputation and the Vote
Demonstrating that what incumbents do brings them electoral reward has proven surprisingly frustrating. At the individual level, the best evidence for this hypothesis comes from studies which employ voters' subjective assessments of their incumbents' casework-related activities. Some scholars, however, claim these findings are due to rationalization effects: voters have favorable assessment of their incumbents because they intend to support them …
Personal Economic Well-Being and the Individual Vote for Congress: A Pooled Analysis, 1980-1990
For nearly two decades congressional elections scholars have struggled to match individual-level findings for the pocketbook voting thesis with ag gregate-level findings. Whereas strong and consistent support can be found for the pocketbook thesis in presidential elections with both individual- level and aggregate-level data, significant support has been found for this thesis in U.S. House elections with aggregate-level data only. The typical ind…
Requiem for a Lightweight: Vice Presidential Candidate Evaluations and the Presidential Vote
Presidential election scholars have recently begun to explore whether vice presidential nominees have a meaningful influence on the presidential vote. Their findings are in conflict. Aggregate‐level analyses find little support for the hypothesis that vice presidential candidates bring their ticket any regional or home state advantage. Individual‐level analyses, on the other hand, find that vice presidential nominees have a surprisingly powerful …
Requiem for a Lightweight: Vice Presidential Candidate Evaluations and the Presidential Vote
Divisive Primaries And The House District Vote: A Pooled Analysis
The verdict on the divisive primary hypothesis has fluctuated as investigators have pursued a variety of theoretical and methodological debates. Although most recent studies find that divisive primaries harm general election outcomes, some claim that this effect is spurious, an artifact of uncontrolled electoral prospects phenomena. I argue that this claim is debatable because it rests on questionable conceptual and model constructs and evidence …
Precedent, Parity, and Racial Discrimination: A Federal/State Comparison of the Impact of Brown v. Board of Education
Questions regarding Brown v. Board of Education's short-term effect remain unanswered, particularly its comparative impact on federal district courts and state supreme courts. We test this through an analysis of racial discrimination cases in those venues in the twenty-year period bifurcated by the decision in May 1954. Our findings suggest that while federal district courts and state courts were similarly unresponsive to discrimination claims be…
The Prospects-Based Dynamics of the House Candidacy Decision
Strategic politicians thesis studies examine the candidacy phenomenon in general and primary elections, typically testing the influence electoral prospects have on the candidacy decision (indirectly in general elections, directly in primary elections). However, because the candidacy phenomena are different in the two arenas, they offer varying opportunities for theory development. Primary elections, where the phenomena are candidacy decisions, of…
What They Do Does Matter: Incumbent Resource Allocations and the Individual House Vote
National Presidential Election Turnout: 1952 To 2020
In an era when elections scholars expected American national presidential election turnout to increase, its steep, prolonged post-1960 decline sparked deep concern and generated an avalanche of individual-level analyses searching for explanation. The post-1960 decline, however, no longer dominates turnout’s trajectory; it has been on the upswing since 1996. This complicates our understanding as we have yet to settle on turnout’s description, much…
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