Scot Schraufnagel
Biographic Data
| ID | 311015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scot Schraufnagel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scot |
| FAMILY NAME | Schraufnagel |
| SIGNATURE | SCHRAUFNAGEL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5488-3070 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Restrictive State Electoral Environments and the Health of Black Americans
Objective The research tests the effect that restrictive state election laws have on the self‐reported health of Black Americans. Methods Initially, aggregate bivariate relationships are assessed as an exercise in theory building before moving to individual‐level survey data to test the association between a more restrictive state electoral environment and self‐reported health. We employ logistic regression to ascertain the predicted probability …
Testing for Incumbency Advantages in a Developing Democracy: Elections for Local Government Leaders in Indonesia
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Two-dimensional legislative conflict: Unique Implications for the Effectiveness of Local Councils
Organisational scholars argue there are two distinct types of conflict found in the private-sector workplace. One is referred to as task conflict and the other relational conflict. We use their insights to devise our own measures of conflict on local elected councils. As opposed to ‘task conflict’ we use the term ‘policy conflict’ and keep the same nomenclature ‘relational conflict.’ We will contend it is important to not conflate the two. In thi…
Testing Structural Explanations for U.S. Military Intervention: Do Support for the President and Conservatives in Congress Embolden the President
In this research, we use insights drawn from Institutional Theory to explore and test the ability of Congress to check presidential foreign policy decision-making. Specifically, we test structural explanations, which tap aggregate presidential support in Congress and legislator ideology. Our concern is whether these institutional dynamics associate with a president’s decision to conduct military operations. We analyze relationships in each chambe…
Historical Dictionary of the Barack Obama Administration
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States. In a country with a rich history of racial animosities, Obama represents a notable deviation in the trajectory of America’s presidential history. At the close of his second term in office, a survey of the personalities and events associated with his presidency is fitting. In this walk through recent history we will be keen to point out the president’s successes, failures, an…
Historical Dictionary of the Barack Obama Administration
Assessing the Effects of Personal Characteristics and Context on U.S. House Speakers’ Leadership Styles, 1789-2006
Research on congressional leadership has been dominated in recent decades by contextual interpretations that see leaders’ behavior as best explained by the environment in which they seek to exercise leadership—particularly, the preference homogeneity and size of their party caucus. The role of agency is thus discounted, and leaders’ personal characteristics and leadership styles are underplayed. Focusing specifically on the speakers of the U.S. H…
The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability
Justin Grimmer, Sean J. Westwood, and Solomon Messing have produced a noteworthy essay that grapples with the broad question of democratic accountability. Their testing ground is the U.S. House of Representatives. Through an analysis of member press releases and a series of experiments, the authors make the case that members are adept at taking credit, and obtaining credit, for government spending that occurs in their districts. I suggest that on…
Candidate Age and Youth Voter Turnout
The research addresses youth voter turnout in the United States and, specifically, tests the relationship between candidate age and a commitment to vote by young people in a controlled experiment. We learn that potential young voters are more willing to commit to vote when they view pictures of younger candidates running. This is the case after controlling for the age and partisanship of respondents. In a real-world test of our experimental resul…
J. David Gillespie, Challengers to duopoly: Why third parties matter in American two-party politics, reviewed by Scot Schraufnagel
Right-to-Die Legislation: A Note on Factors Associated with Its Adoption
Legislation allowing for some form of death prior to it naturally occurring presently exists in very few industrial democracies. This article explores what large-scale economic and social factors may be associated with the legality of right-do-die measures, namely, a nation's health care expenditures, the old-age dependency ratio, religious pluralism, and homicide and suicide rates. Using data from several sources, we find an association among th…
Hispanic Population Growth and State Immigration Policy: An Analysis of Restriction (2008–12)
Recent failures to enact immigration reform at the national level have been used as justification for a dramatic increase in legislation passed by the American states. Much of the legislation has exposed immigrants to higher scrutiny or prohibited recent immigrants from receiving certain benefits. However, other pieces of legislation have extended assistance to noncitizens, both documented and undocumented. This article examines state immigration…
Congress and the Polarity Paradox: Party Polarization, Member Incivility and Enactment of Landmark Legislation, 1891–1994
This research demonstrates that a polarity paradox exists in the enactment of landmark laws by the U.S. Congress. Moderate conflict facilitates the production of landmark laws whereas movement to the polar extremes of conflict—toward low or high conflict—inhibits it. The number of landmark laws passed by a Congress is low when polarization between the parties is low, particularly if uncivil interpersonal conflict within the parties is low, and wh…
Testing the Suitability of Mediation of Child Support Orders in Title IV-D Cases
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to test mediation versus a traditional court process for the establishment or modification of child support orders. The intention is to determine which dispute resolution process is associated with greater client satisfaction and compliance. An auxiliary objective is to test the type of cases which are most successfully mediated. Results: The analyses suggest that client satisfaction is greater with mediat…
Re-Thinking Legislative Productivity: Commemorative Legislation and Policy Gridlock
This research charts the levels of commemorative legislation passed in Congress in the postwar era and assesses the conditions generating such legislation. Utilizing a statistical model of stalemate developed by Sarah Binder, it demonstrates that conditions hypothesized to produce gridlock on salient legislation also generate (even more statistically robust) activism on commemoratives. 1 Our joint appreciation to Paulina Burdge-Small and Michael …
Voter Turnout in Central and South America
We examine explanations of aggregate voting turnout among the voting age population and registered voters across Central and South American political systems. Models of voting turnout typically applied in Western industrialized contexts contain a number of assumptions regarding connections between institutional, political and socioeconomic variables and voter mobilization. We consider these specific conditions, but include the concentration of ex…
Does Familiarity Breed Contempt? The Impact of Information on Mass Attitudes toward Congress
Two features of citizen response to Congress can be taken as grounds for concern. First, Americans know relatively little about Congress, and especially about congressional procedures and policy output. Second, Congress typically emerges as the least respected political institution. Although these matters are troubling when viewed individually, more disturbing is the dilemma posed when knowledge and attitudes toward Congress are viewed in tandem.…
Term Limits, Electoral Competition, and Representational Diversity: The Case of Florida
The article assesses two predictions made by term limits advocates: that term limits would increase electoral competition and enhance demographic representation in state legislatures. Although term limits may indeed have these consequences in some places and some times, their early effects in Florida do not provide support for these predictions. Our analysis suggests that state legislative seats that have opened up as the result of term limits yi…
Testing the implications of incivility in the United States Congress, 1977–2000: The case of judicial confirmation delay
The research argues that there are two empirically distinct types of conflict in the United States Congress. The first is partisan conflict or the relative divergence of the two major parties on policy issues. The second is the level of civility that characterises legislative processes in the country. Two unique measures of 'civility' are developed. The first is based on media reporting and the second on the coding of almanac summaries. The new i…
Issue Positions of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House, 1998: A Research Note
Journal Article Issue Positions of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House, 1998: A Research Note Get access Scot Schraufnagel, Scot Schraufnagel SCOT SCHRAUFNAGEL recently joined the political science faculty at the University of Central Florida. He is currently completing a study of comity in Congress. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jeffery J. Mondak Jeffery J. Mondak JEFFERY J. MONDAK is LeRoy Coll…
The Two Presidencies, 1984‐98: A Replication and Extension
Aaron Wildavsky first proposed that presidents in the United States receive more support from Congress in foreign policy and thus can expect to wield more influence and discretion in this policy arena. Since that time, scholars have scrutinized Wildavsky's contention. A recent work by Fleisher et al., using a new measure of presidential support, argues convincingly that broad generalizations about the phenomenon of increased presidential support …
Hispanic Population Growth and State Immigration Policy: An Analysis of Restriction (2008–12)
Recent failures to enact immigration reform at the national level have been used as justification for a dramatic increase in legislation passed by the American states. Much of the legislation has exposed immigrants to higher scrutiny or prohibited recent immigrants from receiving certain benefits. However, other pieces of legislation have extended assistance to noncitizens, both documented and undocumented. This article examines state immigration…
Candidate Age and Youth Voter Turnout
The research addresses youth voter turnout in the United States and, specifically, tests the relationship between candidate age and a commitment to vote by young people in a controlled experiment. We learn that potential young voters are more willing to commit to vote when they view pictures of younger candidates running. This is the case after controlling for the age and partisanship of respondents. In a real-world test of our experimental resul…
The Two Presidencies, 1984‐98: A Replication and Extension
Aaron Wildavsky first proposed that presidents in the United States receive more support from Congress in foreign policy and thus can expect to wield more influence and discretion in this policy arena. Since that time, scholars have scrutinized Wildavsky's contention. A recent work by Fleisher et al., using a new measure of presidential support, argues convincingly that broad generalizations about the phenomenon of increased presidential support …
Congress and the Polarity Paradox: Party Polarization, Member Incivility and Enactment of Landmark Legislation, 1891–1994
This research demonstrates that a polarity paradox exists in the enactment of landmark laws by the U.S. Congress. Moderate conflict facilitates the production of landmark laws whereas movement to the polar extremes of conflict—toward low or high conflict—inhibits it. The number of landmark laws passed by a Congress is low when polarization between the parties is low, particularly if uncivil interpersonal conflict within the parties is low, and wh…
Does Familiarity Breed Contempt? The Impact of Information on Mass Attitudes toward Congress
Two features of citizen response to Congress can be taken as grounds for concern. First, Americans know relatively little about Congress, and especially about congressional procedures and policy output. Second, Congress typically emerges as the least respected political institution. Although these matters are troubling when viewed individually, more disturbing is the dilemma posed when knowledge and attitudes toward Congress are viewed in tandem.…
Term Limits, Electoral Competition, and Representational Diversity: The Case of Florida
The article assesses two predictions made by term limits advocates: that term limits would increase electoral competition and enhance demographic representation in state legislatures. Although term limits may indeed have these consequences in some places and some times, their early effects in Florida do not provide support for these predictions. Our analysis suggests that state legislative seats that have opened up as the result of term limits yi…
Re-Thinking Legislative Productivity: Commemorative Legislation and Policy Gridlock
This research charts the levels of commemorative legislation passed in Congress in the postwar era and assesses the conditions generating such legislation. Utilizing a statistical model of stalemate developed by Sarah Binder, it demonstrates that conditions hypothesized to produce gridlock on salient legislation also generate (even more statistically robust) activism on commemoratives. 1 Our joint appreciation to Paulina Burdge-Small and Michael …
Testing the implications of incivility in the United States Congress, 1977–2000: The case of judicial confirmation delay
The research argues that there are two empirically distinct types of conflict in the United States Congress. The first is partisan conflict or the relative divergence of the two major parties on policy issues. The second is the level of civility that characterises legislative processes in the country. Two unique measures of 'civility' are developed. The first is based on media reporting and the second on the coding of almanac summaries. The new i…
Voter Turnout in Central and South America
We examine explanations of aggregate voting turnout among the voting age population and registered voters across Central and South American political systems. Models of voting turnout typically applied in Western industrialized contexts contain a number of assumptions regarding connections between institutional, political and socioeconomic variables and voter mobilization. We consider these specific conditions, but include the concentration of ex…
Two-dimensional legislative conflict: Unique Implications for the Effectiveness of Local Councils
Organisational scholars argue there are two distinct types of conflict found in the private-sector workplace. One is referred to as task conflict and the other relational conflict. We use their insights to devise our own measures of conflict on local elected councils. As opposed to ‘task conflict’ we use the term ‘policy conflict’ and keep the same nomenclature ‘relational conflict.’ We will contend it is important to not conflate the two. In thi…
The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability
Justin Grimmer, Sean J. Westwood, and Solomon Messing have produced a noteworthy essay that grapples with the broad question of democratic accountability. Their testing ground is the U.S. House of Representatives. Through an analysis of member press releases and a series of experiments, the authors make the case that members are adept at taking credit, and obtaining credit, for government spending that occurs in their districts. I suggest that on…
Testing the Suitability of Mediation of Child Support Orders in Title IV-D Cases
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to test mediation versus a traditional court process for the establishment or modification of child support orders. The intention is to determine which dispute resolution process is associated with greater client satisfaction and compliance. An auxiliary objective is to test the type of cases which are most successfully mediated. Results: The analyses suggest that client satisfaction is greater with mediat…
The Two Presidencies, 1984‐98: A Replication and Extension
Aaron Wildavsky first proposed that presidents in the United States receive more support from Congress in foreign policy and thus can expect to wield more influence and discretion in this policy arena. Since that time, scholars have scrutinized Wildavsky's contention. A recent work by Fleisher et al., using a new measure of presidential support, argues convincingly that broad generalizations about the phenomenon of increased presidential support …
Issue Positions of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House, 1998: A Research Note
Journal Article Issue Positions of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. House, 1998: A Research Note Get access Scot Schraufnagel, Scot Schraufnagel SCOT SCHRAUFNAGEL recently joined the political science faculty at the University of Central Florida. He is currently completing a study of comity in Congress. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jeffery J. Mondak Jeffery J. Mondak JEFFERY J. MONDAK is LeRoy Coll…
Testing the implications of incivility in the United States Congress, 1977–2000: The case of judicial confirmation delay
The research argues that there are two empirically distinct types of conflict in the United States Congress. The first is partisan conflict or the relative divergence of the two major parties on policy issues. The second is the level of civility that characterises legislative processes in the country. Two unique measures of 'civility' are developed. The first is based on media reporting and the second on the coding of almanac summaries. The new i…
Term Limits, Electoral Competition, and Representational Diversity: The Case of Florida
The article assesses two predictions made by term limits advocates: that term limits would increase electoral competition and enhance demographic representation in state legislatures. Although term limits may indeed have these consequences in some places and some times, their early effects in Florida do not provide support for these predictions. Our analysis suggests that state legislative seats that have opened up as the result of term limits yi…
Does Familiarity Breed Contempt? The Impact of Information on Mass Attitudes toward Congress
Two features of citizen response to Congress can be taken as grounds for concern. First, Americans know relatively little about Congress, and especially about congressional procedures and policy output. Second, Congress typically emerges as the least respected political institution. Although these matters are troubling when viewed individually, more disturbing is the dilemma posed when knowledge and attitudes toward Congress are viewed in tandem.…
Voter Turnout in Central and South America
We examine explanations of aggregate voting turnout among the voting age population and registered voters across Central and South American political systems. Models of voting turnout typically applied in Western industrialized contexts contain a number of assumptions regarding connections between institutional, political and socioeconomic variables and voter mobilization. We consider these specific conditions, but include the concentration of ex…
Testing the Suitability of Mediation of Child Support Orders in Title IV-D Cases
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to test mediation versus a traditional court process for the establishment or modification of child support orders. The intention is to determine which dispute resolution process is associated with greater client satisfaction and compliance. An auxiliary objective is to test the type of cases which are most successfully mediated. Results: The analyses suggest that client satisfaction is greater with mediat…
Re-Thinking Legislative Productivity: Commemorative Legislation and Policy Gridlock
This research charts the levels of commemorative legislation passed in Congress in the postwar era and assesses the conditions generating such legislation. Utilizing a statistical model of stalemate developed by Sarah Binder, it demonstrates that conditions hypothesized to produce gridlock on salient legislation also generate (even more statistically robust) activism on commemoratives. 1 Our joint appreciation to Paulina Burdge-Small and Michael …
Congress and the Polarity Paradox: Party Polarization, Member Incivility and Enactment of Landmark Legislation, 1891–1994
This research demonstrates that a polarity paradox exists in the enactment of landmark laws by the U.S. Congress. Moderate conflict facilitates the production of landmark laws whereas movement to the polar extremes of conflict—toward low or high conflict—inhibits it. The number of landmark laws passed by a Congress is low when polarization between the parties is low, particularly if uncivil interpersonal conflict within the parties is low, and wh…
J. David Gillespie, Challengers to duopoly: Why third parties matter in American two-party politics, reviewed by Scot Schraufnagel
Right-to-Die Legislation: A Note on Factors Associated with Its Adoption
Legislation allowing for some form of death prior to it naturally occurring presently exists in very few industrial democracies. This article explores what large-scale economic and social factors may be associated with the legality of right-do-die measures, namely, a nation's health care expenditures, the old-age dependency ratio, religious pluralism, and homicide and suicide rates. Using data from several sources, we find an association among th…
Hispanic Population Growth and State Immigration Policy: An Analysis of Restriction (2008–12)
Recent failures to enact immigration reform at the national level have been used as justification for a dramatic increase in legislation passed by the American states. Much of the legislation has exposed immigrants to higher scrutiny or prohibited recent immigrants from receiving certain benefits. However, other pieces of legislation have extended assistance to noncitizens, both documented and undocumented. This article examines state immigration…
The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability
Justin Grimmer, Sean J. Westwood, and Solomon Messing have produced a noteworthy essay that grapples with the broad question of democratic accountability. Their testing ground is the U.S. House of Representatives. Through an analysis of member press releases and a series of experiments, the authors make the case that members are adept at taking credit, and obtaining credit, for government spending that occurs in their districts. I suggest that on…
Candidate Age and Youth Voter Turnout
The research addresses youth voter turnout in the United States and, specifically, tests the relationship between candidate age and a commitment to vote by young people in a controlled experiment. We learn that potential young voters are more willing to commit to vote when they view pictures of younger candidates running. This is the case after controlling for the age and partisanship of respondents. In a real-world test of our experimental resul…
Assessing the Effects of Personal Characteristics and Context on U.S. House Speakers’ Leadership Styles, 1789-2006
Research on congressional leadership has been dominated in recent decades by contextual interpretations that see leaders’ behavior as best explained by the environment in which they seek to exercise leadership—particularly, the preference homogeneity and size of their party caucus. The role of agency is thus discounted, and leaders’ personal characteristics and leadership styles are underplayed. Focusing specifically on the speakers of the U.S. H…
Historical Dictionary of the Barack Obama Administration
Barack Obama, the first African-American president of the United States. In a country with a rich history of racial animosities, Obama represents a notable deviation in the trajectory of America’s presidential history. At the close of his second term in office, a survey of the personalities and events associated with his presidency is fitting. In this walk through recent history we will be keen to point out the president’s successes, failures, an…
Historical Dictionary of the Barack Obama Administration
Testing Structural Explanations for U.S. Military Intervention: Do Support for the President and Conservatives in Congress Embolden the President
In this research, we use insights drawn from Institutional Theory to explore and test the ability of Congress to check presidential foreign policy decision-making. Specifically, we test structural explanations, which tap aggregate presidential support in Congress and legislator ideology. Our concern is whether these institutional dynamics associate with a president’s decision to conduct military operations. We analyze relationships in each chambe…
Testing for Incumbency Advantages in a Developing Democracy: Elections for Local Government Leaders in Indonesia
Attained SCOPUS CiteScore of 1.4 in 2019.Attained Journal Citation Report (JCR) Journal Impact Factor of 0.717 in 2019.SCImago Journal and Country Rank (SJR) 2019 for the Asiatic Region: Ranked 1st in Political Science and International Relations; 1st in History; and 3rd in Arts and Humanities.Ranked 19th by Google Scholar Metrics 2020 in the category of “Asian Studies and History”
Two-dimensional legislative conflict: Unique Implications for the Effectiveness of Local Councils
Organisational scholars argue there are two distinct types of conflict found in the private-sector workplace. One is referred to as task conflict and the other relational conflict. We use their insights to devise our own measures of conflict on local elected councils. As opposed to ‘task conflict’ we use the term ‘policy conflict’ and keep the same nomenclature ‘relational conflict.’ We will contend it is important to not conflate the two. In thi…
Restrictive State Electoral Environments and the Health of Black Americans
Objective The research tests the effect that restrictive state election laws have on the self‐reported health of Black Americans. Methods Initially, aggregate bivariate relationships are assessed as an exercise in theory building before moving to individual‐level survey data to test the association between a more restrictive state electoral environment and self‐reported health. We employ logistic regression to ascertain the predicted probability …
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