Vincent G Moscardelli
Biographic Data
| ID | 226092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent G Moscardelli |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent G |
| FAMILY NAME | Moscardelli |
| SIGNATURE | MOSCARDELLI V G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 67 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reform in the Canadian Parliament and the US Congress: Institutional Choices and Member Power
A spate of recent work on the Canadian Parliament highlights the importance of constituency pressures in understanding the legislative behavior of individual Members of Parliament (MPs). In light of this renaissance, we reexamine decisions by Canadian Liberal Party MPs to defy Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and his cabinet by supporting party-weakening reform in 2002. More specifically, we model votes on the question of selecting committee chairs t…
Measuring legislative collaboration: The Senate press events network
The Lingering Effect of Scandals in Congressional Elections: Incumbents, Challengers, and Voters
Objective We have two goals. First, we investigate both the short‐ and long‐term electoral impact of involvement in scandals on reelection margins of incumbents in U.S. congressional elections. Second, we evaluate the impact of scandals on district‐level turnout. Methods We model the impact of involvement in a political scandal on incumbents’ electoral margins in the election cycle in which the scandal comes to light, as well as in future electio…
Harry Reid and Health Care Reform in the Senate: Transactional Leadership in a Transformational Moment
On December 24, 2009, the United States Senate passed H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, by a vote of 60-39. Final passage was the culmination of over a month of behind-the-scenes negotiations and strategy sessions coordinated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). In this paper, I trace and evaluate Harry Reid s coalition-building efforts on health care reform in the months leading up to the Christmas Eve vote using…
Introduction from the Guest Editors
Congressional Leadership on the Front Lines: Committee Chairs, Electoral Security, and Ideology
During the 2006 campaign, many on the political right expressed anxiety about the slate of Democratic representatives and senators poised to become committee chairs in the event of a Democratic victory. After the election, despite post-election promises of “unity” and “bipartisanship” among congressional Democrats, the question remained: How well would this progressive group of “old bulls” work with the new majority, the existence of which was du…
Election Reform after Hava: Voter Verification in Congress and the States
Requiring voting machines to produce a voter-verifiable paper record (VVPR) has been the most prominent election reform issue in Congress and across the states since the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. Whereas HAVA emerged from a bipartisan process that included cooperation and input from state and local government officials, VVPR legislation represents a more coercive brand of federalism that has divided the parties and evoked opposition b…
Not on Your (Half) Life: The Partisan Geography of Nuclear Waste Disposal
Between 1987 and 2002, the United States Senate held 20 key roll call votes related to the designation of Yucca Mountain, Nevada as the location for the nation's first high–level nuclear waste repository. During that period, conflict over the issue became increasingly structured by party. At first glance, the highly technical issue of nuclear waste disposal has no obvious partisan dimension. But, linking theories of party government with recent s…
Campaign Finance Reform as Institutional Choice: Party Difference in the Vote to Ban Soft Money
If the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002 banned the use of soft money—the only source of funds in which Democrats approached parity with Republicans—why did the Republican congressional leadership revile the bill and the Democratic congressional leadership embrace it? We address this puzzle by modeling competing electoral, partisan, and policy motives that guided members’ decision making on the vote for final passage of this bill. Our…
Policy Crisis and Political Leadership: Election Law Reform in the States after the 2000 Presidential Election
What effect do political leaders have on policy adoption in response to a crisis? The vote-counting crisis in the presidential election in Florida in 2000 forced policymakers in all 50 states to re-examine their own election laws and procedures. Some state leaders acted as entrepreneurs, seizing the opportunity to advance major reform, while others sought only modest or no substantive change. We test the impact of political leadership on policy a…
The Financiers of Congressional Elections: Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates
The Financiers of Congressional Elections: Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates. By Peter L. Francia, John C. Green, Paul S. Herrnson, Lynda W. Powell, and Clyde Wilcox. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 205p. $59.50 cloth, $22.50 paper. This book begins with a simple but important premise: “When political activists have distinctive views and special access to policymakers, representation and democracy may become distorted” (p. 18). Buil…
The Clay Speakership Revisited
The speakership of Henry Clay marks an important period in the early development of American politics and political institutions. The "leadership survival" explanation of the Clay speakership, first proposed in James Sterling Young's, The Washington Community, 1800-1828, has enjoyed wide currency and more recently has been incorporated in work by scholars associated with the "new institutionalism" in rational choice theory. In this article we rev…
Party Building through Campaign Finance Reform: Conditional Party Government in the 104th Congress
During this century, the electoral fortunes of members of Congress have become less a function of party affiliation, and more a function of personal relationships with their constituencies. With the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1996, House Republican leaders sought to reinvigorate the role of the national parties in financing congressional campaigns. Guided by Conditional Party Government theory, we explore reasons a member of Congress might ha…
The Lingering Effect of Scandals in Congressional Elections: Incumbents, Challengers, and Voters
Objective We have two goals. First, we investigate both the short‐ and long‐term electoral impact of involvement in scandals on reelection margins of incumbents in U.S. congressional elections. Second, we evaluate the impact of scandals on district‐level turnout. Methods We model the impact of involvement in a political scandal on incumbents’ electoral margins in the election cycle in which the scandal comes to light, as well as in future electio…
Election Reform after Hava: Voter Verification in Congress and the States
Requiring voting machines to produce a voter-verifiable paper record (VVPR) has been the most prominent election reform issue in Congress and across the states since the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. Whereas HAVA emerged from a bipartisan process that included cooperation and input from state and local government officials, VVPR legislation represents a more coercive brand of federalism that has divided the parties and evoked opposition b…
Policy Crisis and Political Leadership: Election Law Reform in the States after the 2000 Presidential Election
What effect do political leaders have on policy adoption in response to a crisis? The vote-counting crisis in the presidential election in Florida in 2000 forced policymakers in all 50 states to re-examine their own election laws and procedures. Some state leaders acted as entrepreneurs, seizing the opportunity to advance major reform, while others sought only modest or no substantive change. We test the impact of political leadership on policy a…
The Clay Speakership Revisited
The speakership of Henry Clay marks an important period in the early development of American politics and political institutions. The "leadership survival" explanation of the Clay speakership, first proposed in James Sterling Young's, The Washington Community, 1800-1828, has enjoyed wide currency and more recently has been incorporated in work by scholars associated with the "new institutionalism" in rational choice theory. In this article we rev…
Party Building through Campaign Finance Reform: Conditional Party Government in the 104th Congress
During this century, the electoral fortunes of members of Congress have become less a function of party affiliation, and more a function of personal relationships with their constituencies. With the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1996, House Republican leaders sought to reinvigorate the role of the national parties in financing congressional campaigns. Guided by Conditional Party Government theory, we explore reasons a member of Congress might ha…
Congressional Leadership on the Front Lines: Committee Chairs, Electoral Security, and Ideology
During the 2006 campaign, many on the political right expressed anxiety about the slate of Democratic representatives and senators poised to become committee chairs in the event of a Democratic victory. After the election, despite post-election promises of “unity” and “bipartisanship” among congressional Democrats, the question remained: How well would this progressive group of “old bulls” work with the new majority, the existence of which was du…
Campaign Finance Reform as Institutional Choice: Party Difference in the Vote to Ban Soft Money
If the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002 banned the use of soft money—the only source of funds in which Democrats approached parity with Republicans—why did the Republican congressional leadership revile the bill and the Democratic congressional leadership embrace it? We address this puzzle by modeling competing electoral, partisan, and policy motives that guided members’ decision making on the vote for final passage of this bill. Our…
Party Building through Campaign Finance Reform: Conditional Party Government in the 104th Congress
During this century, the electoral fortunes of members of Congress have become less a function of party affiliation, and more a function of personal relationships with their constituencies. With the Campaign Finance Reform Act of 1996, House Republican leaders sought to reinvigorate the role of the national parties in financing congressional campaigns. Guided by Conditional Party Government theory, we explore reasons a member of Congress might ha…
The Clay Speakership Revisited
The speakership of Henry Clay marks an important period in the early development of American politics and political institutions. The "leadership survival" explanation of the Clay speakership, first proposed in James Sterling Young's, The Washington Community, 1800-1828, has enjoyed wide currency and more recently has been incorporated in work by scholars associated with the "new institutionalism" in rational choice theory. In this article we rev…
The Financiers of Congressional Elections: Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates
The Financiers of Congressional Elections: Investors, Ideologues, and Intimates. By Peter L. Francia, John C. Green, Paul S. Herrnson, Lynda W. Powell, and Clyde Wilcox. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003. 205p. $59.50 cloth, $22.50 paper. This book begins with a simple but important premise: “When political activists have distinctive views and special access to policymakers, representation and democracy may become distorted” (p. 18). Buil…
Policy Crisis and Political Leadership: Election Law Reform in the States after the 2000 Presidential Election
What effect do political leaders have on policy adoption in response to a crisis? The vote-counting crisis in the presidential election in Florida in 2000 forced policymakers in all 50 states to re-examine their own election laws and procedures. Some state leaders acted as entrepreneurs, seizing the opportunity to advance major reform, while others sought only modest or no substantive change. We test the impact of political leadership on policy a…
Election Reform after Hava: Voter Verification in Congress and the States
Requiring voting machines to produce a voter-verifiable paper record (VVPR) has been the most prominent election reform issue in Congress and across the states since the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. Whereas HAVA emerged from a bipartisan process that included cooperation and input from state and local government officials, VVPR legislation represents a more coercive brand of federalism that has divided the parties and evoked opposition b…
Not on Your (Half) Life: The Partisan Geography of Nuclear Waste Disposal
Between 1987 and 2002, the United States Senate held 20 key roll call votes related to the designation of Yucca Mountain, Nevada as the location for the nation's first high–level nuclear waste repository. During that period, conflict over the issue became increasingly structured by party. At first glance, the highly technical issue of nuclear waste disposal has no obvious partisan dimension. But, linking theories of party government with recent s…
Campaign Finance Reform as Institutional Choice: Party Difference in the Vote to Ban Soft Money
If the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002 banned the use of soft money—the only source of funds in which Democrats approached parity with Republicans—why did the Republican congressional leadership revile the bill and the Democratic congressional leadership embrace it? We address this puzzle by modeling competing electoral, partisan, and policy motives that guided members’ decision making on the vote for final passage of this bill. Our…
Congressional Leadership on the Front Lines: Committee Chairs, Electoral Security, and Ideology
During the 2006 campaign, many on the political right expressed anxiety about the slate of Democratic representatives and senators poised to become committee chairs in the event of a Democratic victory. After the election, despite post-election promises of “unity” and “bipartisanship” among congressional Democrats, the question remained: How well would this progressive group of “old bulls” work with the new majority, the existence of which was du…
Introduction from the Guest Editors
Harry Reid and Health Care Reform in the Senate: Transactional Leadership in a Transformational Moment
On December 24, 2009, the United States Senate passed H.R. 3590, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, by a vote of 60-39. Final passage was the culmination of over a month of behind-the-scenes negotiations and strategy sessions coordinated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV). In this paper, I trace and evaluate Harry Reid s coalition-building efforts on health care reform in the months leading up to the Christmas Eve vote using…
The Lingering Effect of Scandals in Congressional Elections: Incumbents, Challengers, and Voters
Objective We have two goals. First, we investigate both the short‐ and long‐term electoral impact of involvement in scandals on reelection margins of incumbents in U.S. congressional elections. Second, we evaluate the impact of scandals on district‐level turnout. Methods We model the impact of involvement in a political scandal on incumbents’ electoral margins in the election cycle in which the scandal comes to light, as well as in future electio…
Measuring legislative collaboration: The Senate press events network
Reform in the Canadian Parliament and the US Congress: Institutional Choices and Member Power
A spate of recent work on the Canadian Parliament highlights the importance of constituency pressures in understanding the legislative behavior of individual Members of Parliament (MPs). In light of this renaissance, we reexamine decisions by Canadian Liberal Party MPs to defy Prime Minister Jean Chrétien and his cabinet by supporting party-weakening reform in 2002. More specifically, we model votes on the question of selecting committee chairs t…
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