Marjorie Randon Hershey
Biographic Data
| ID | 372080 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie Randon Hershey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie Randon |
| FAMILY NAME | Hershey |
| SIGNATURE | HERSHEY M R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Long War over Party Structure
Assessing the ideological extremism of American party activists
In this article, we investigate whether it is appropriate to generalize about the ideological and demographic characteristics of American party activists. Many studies on party polarization emphasize the role of activists in encouraging the divisions within the parties, and in so doing, commonly treat activists as a homogeneous group. Here, we show that different forms of political activity attract systematically different types of individuals. S…
Political Spectacles and the Power of Resentment
There’s a reason why political scientists may find it difficult to answer one of the most central questions in American politics: Why do people who feel passed over by the larger society, and often
Party politics in America
Do Constructed Explanations Persist? Reframing of the 1994 Republican Takeover of Congress
Immediately after an election, candidates, activists, and journalists work to learn the reasons for voters’ choices in order to advance their careers. The answers are usually in contention. Election results tell us who won but not why the voters made their choices. Even exit polls often provide no more than a range of possible explanations. Yet research shows that soon after Election Day, long before systematic analysis is available, journalists …
What We Know about Voter-ID Laws, Registration, and Turnout
Turning out to vote is the most common and important act citizens take in a democracy,” John Aldrich writes (1993, 246), “and, therefore, is one of the most important behaviors for scholars of democratic politics to understand.” Turnout matters at the community as well as the individual level; the larger a county's voter turnout, for instance, the more discretionary federal resources it is likely to receive per capita (Martin 2003). “The blunt tr…
Constructing Explanations for U.S. State Governors’ Races: The Abortion Issue and the 1990 Gubernatorial Elections
Election results do not, by themselves, explain what specific policies voters want. So reporters and the politicians and activists they cover engage in a process of constructing explanations for the vote totals, to achieve their respective aims. This study examines the conditions in which a potentially influential issueabortion rights after the Webster decisionwas interpreted as an explanation for gubernatorial election outcomes in 1990. Data sho…
Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering
Journal Article Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering Get access Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, DC, CQ Press, 1999. 192 pp. Paper, $19.95. Marjorie Randon Hershey Marjorie Randon Hershey Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 1, Sp…
The Meaning of a Mandate: Interpretations of "Mandate" in 1984 Presidential Election Coverage
The idea of a mandate is central to democratic politics because perceptions of the existence and form of popular mandate determine the scope of what elected officials can claim they were elected to do. This article examines how the notion of "mandate" was used to interpret the results of the 1984 U.S. presidential election. Though four different definitions of "mandate" can be identified in the coverage, the dominant interpretation focused on a p…
Citizens' Groups and Political Parties in the United States
The relationship between political parties and citizens' groups in the United States contains elements of both competition and cooperation. Citizens' groups have the potential to compete with parties for individuals' loyalty, time, and money; for influence on the media's agenda; and for candidates' attention. In fact, voter attachment to the major parties began to decline just at the time that the number of citizens' groups was increasing, during…
Election research as spectacle: The Edelman vision and the empirical study of elections
1993). Election research as spectacle: The Edelman vision and the empirical study of elections. Political Communication: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 121-139
The Constructed Explanation: Interpreting Election Results in the 1984 Presidential Race
As a means of popular control over government, elections are a blunt instrument: powerful but not very articulate. The ballot gives voters the chance to select candidates, but not to explain why they made those choices. Officeholders and other activists have a powerful incentive to interpret what the voters meant. If they can find a plausible explanation of the vote, or construct a self-interested interpretation and get it accepted, then they can…
Campaigns for Campaigners: A Review Essay
Sex-role attitudes, identities, and political ideology
Is Pollution 'A White Thing'? Racial Differences in Preadults' Attitudes
Clear and consistent differences between blacks‘ and whites’ attitudes toward environmental issues were found in a stratified random sample survey of 2,012 Florida preadults. Blacks were much less likely than whites to consider environmental quality a serious problem worthy of community concern, to favor environmental goals, and to define pollution in complex terms; regression analysis showed that these differences persisted even when factors tho…
The President and Political Socialization: Applying Social Learning Theory to Two Long-Standing Hypotheses
The Future of Political Parties as Organizations and Symbols
Watergate and Preadults' Attitudes Toward the President
This study investigates preadults' perceptions of Watergate using questionnaires from a stratified random sample of grades 2 through 12 in Florida. Watergate is related more strongly to differences in attitudes toward the president than to other political orientations. As Greenstein suggests, the strongest finding is that those who consider Watergate important are much less likely to view the president as responsive. Age and partisanship are the …
Incumbency and the Minimum Winning Coalition
In order to understand the campaign behavior of candidates and parties, it is clearly important to consider their goals for the election. These goals have been the subject of many landmark works, concerned with European as well as American party systems. Looking at one type of goal-the of the election victory-William Riker postulates that social situations similar to n-person, zero-sum games with side payments, participants create coalitions just…
Party politics in America
The Constructed Explanation: Interpreting Election Results in the 1984 Presidential Race
As a means of popular control over government, elections are a blunt instrument: powerful but not very articulate. The ballot gives voters the chance to select candidates, but not to explain why they made those choices. Officeholders and other activists have a powerful incentive to interpret what the voters meant. If they can find a plausible explanation of the vote, or construct a self-interested interpretation and get it accepted, then they can…
Is Pollution 'A White Thing'? Racial Differences in Preadults' Attitudes
Clear and consistent differences between blacks‘ and whites’ attitudes toward environmental issues were found in a stratified random sample survey of 2,012 Florida preadults. Blacks were much less likely than whites to consider environmental quality a serious problem worthy of community concern, to favor environmental goals, and to define pollution in complex terms; regression analysis showed that these differences persisted even when factors tho…
What We Know about Voter-ID Laws, Registration, and Turnout
Turning out to vote is the most common and important act citizens take in a democracy,” John Aldrich writes (1993, 246), “and, therefore, is one of the most important behaviors for scholars of democratic politics to understand.” Turnout matters at the community as well as the individual level; the larger a county's voter turnout, for instance, the more discretionary federal resources it is likely to receive per capita (Martin 2003). “The blunt tr…
Watergate and Preadults' Attitudes Toward the President
This study investigates preadults' perceptions of Watergate using questionnaires from a stratified random sample of grades 2 through 12 in Florida. Watergate is related more strongly to differences in attitudes toward the president than to other political orientations. As Greenstein suggests, the strongest finding is that those who consider Watergate important are much less likely to view the president as responsive. Age and partisanship are the …
Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering
Journal Article Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering Get access Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, DC, CQ Press, 1999. 192 pp. Paper, $19.95. Marjorie Randon Hershey Marjorie Randon Hershey Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 1, Sp…
The Meaning of a Mandate: Interpretations of "Mandate" in 1984 Presidential Election Coverage
The idea of a mandate is central to democratic politics because perceptions of the existence and form of popular mandate determine the scope of what elected officials can claim they were elected to do. This article examines how the notion of "mandate" was used to interpret the results of the 1984 U.S. presidential election. Though four different definitions of "mandate" can be identified in the coverage, the dominant interpretation focused on a p…
Sex-role attitudes, identities, and political ideology
Assessing the ideological extremism of American party activists
In this article, we investigate whether it is appropriate to generalize about the ideological and demographic characteristics of American party activists. Many studies on party polarization emphasize the role of activists in encouraging the divisions within the parties, and in so doing, commonly treat activists as a homogeneous group. Here, we show that different forms of political activity attract systematically different types of individuals. S…
Do Constructed Explanations Persist? Reframing of the 1994 Republican Takeover of Congress
Immediately after an election, candidates, activists, and journalists work to learn the reasons for voters’ choices in order to advance their careers. The answers are usually in contention. Election results tell us who won but not why the voters made their choices. Even exit polls often provide no more than a range of possible explanations. Yet research shows that soon after Election Day, long before systematic analysis is available, journalists …
Election research as spectacle: The Edelman vision and the empirical study of elections
1993). Election research as spectacle: The Edelman vision and the empirical study of elections. Political Communication: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 121-139
The President and Political Socialization: Applying Social Learning Theory to Two Long-Standing Hypotheses
Incumbency and the Minimum Winning Coalition
In order to understand the campaign behavior of candidates and parties, it is clearly important to consider their goals for the election. These goals have been the subject of many landmark works, concerned with European as well as American party systems. Looking at one type of goal-the of the election victory-William Riker postulates that social situations similar to n-person, zero-sum games with side payments, participants create coalitions just…
Political Spectacles and the Power of Resentment
There’s a reason why political scientists may find it difficult to answer one of the most central questions in American politics: Why do people who feel passed over by the larger society, and often
Constructing Explanations for U.S. State Governors’ Races: The Abortion Issue and the 1990 Gubernatorial Elections
Election results do not, by themselves, explain what specific policies voters want. So reporters and the politicians and activists they cover engage in a process of constructing explanations for the vote totals, to achieve their respective aims. This study examines the conditions in which a potentially influential issueabortion rights after the Webster decisionwas interpreted as an explanation for gubernatorial election outcomes in 1990. Data sho…
Incumbency and the Minimum Winning Coalition
In order to understand the campaign behavior of candidates and parties, it is clearly important to consider their goals for the election. These goals have been the subject of many landmark works, concerned with European as well as American party systems. Looking at one type of goal-the of the election victory-William Riker postulates that social situations similar to n-person, zero-sum games with side payments, participants create coalitions just…
The Future of Political Parties as Organizations and Symbols
Watergate and Preadults' Attitudes Toward the President
This study investigates preadults' perceptions of Watergate using questionnaires from a stratified random sample of grades 2 through 12 in Florida. Watergate is related more strongly to differences in attitudes toward the president than to other political orientations. As Greenstein suggests, the strongest finding is that those who consider Watergate important are much less likely to view the president as responsive. Age and partisanship are the …
Sex-role attitudes, identities, and political ideology
Is Pollution 'A White Thing'? Racial Differences in Preadults' Attitudes
Clear and consistent differences between blacks‘ and whites’ attitudes toward environmental issues were found in a stratified random sample survey of 2,012 Florida preadults. Blacks were much less likely than whites to consider environmental quality a serious problem worthy of community concern, to favor environmental goals, and to define pollution in complex terms; regression analysis showed that these differences persisted even when factors tho…
The President and Political Socialization: Applying Social Learning Theory to Two Long-Standing Hypotheses
Campaigns for Campaigners: A Review Essay
The Constructed Explanation: Interpreting Election Results in the 1984 Presidential Race
As a means of popular control over government, elections are a blunt instrument: powerful but not very articulate. The ballot gives voters the chance to select candidates, but not to explain why they made those choices. Officeholders and other activists have a powerful incentive to interpret what the voters meant. If they can find a plausible explanation of the vote, or construct a self-interested interpretation and get it accepted, then they can…
Citizens' Groups and Political Parties in the United States
The relationship between political parties and citizens' groups in the United States contains elements of both competition and cooperation. Citizens' groups have the potential to compete with parties for individuals' loyalty, time, and money; for influence on the media's agenda; and for candidates' attention. In fact, voter attachment to the major parties began to decline just at the time that the number of citizens' groups was increasing, during…
Election research as spectacle: The Edelman vision and the empirical study of elections
1993). Election research as spectacle: The Edelman vision and the empirical study of elections. Political Communication: Vol. 10, No. 2, pp. 121-139
The Meaning of a Mandate: Interpretations of "Mandate" in 1984 Presidential Election Coverage
The idea of a mandate is central to democratic politics because perceptions of the existence and form of popular mandate determine the scope of what elected officials can claim they were elected to do. This article examines how the notion of "mandate" was used to interpret the results of the 1984 U.S. presidential election. Though four different definitions of "mandate" can be identified in the coverage, the dominant interpretation focused on a p…
Constructing Explanations for U.S. State Governors’ Races: The Abortion Issue and the 1990 Gubernatorial Elections
Election results do not, by themselves, explain what specific policies voters want. So reporters and the politicians and activists they cover engage in a process of constructing explanations for the vote totals, to achieve their respective aims. This study examines the conditions in which a potentially influential issueabortion rights after the Webster decisionwas interpreted as an explanation for gubernatorial election outcomes in 1990. Data sho…
Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering
Journal Article Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering Get access Interest Groups in American Campaigns: The New Face of Electioneering by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Washington, DC, CQ Press, 1999. 192 pp. Paper, $19.95. Marjorie Randon Hershey Marjorie Randon Hershey Indiana University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 1, Sp…
What We Know about Voter-ID Laws, Registration, and Turnout
Turning out to vote is the most common and important act citizens take in a democracy,” John Aldrich writes (1993, 246), “and, therefore, is one of the most important behaviors for scholars of democratic politics to understand.” Turnout matters at the community as well as the individual level; the larger a county's voter turnout, for instance, the more discretionary federal resources it is likely to receive per capita (Martin 2003). “The blunt tr…
Do Constructed Explanations Persist? Reframing of the 1994 Republican Takeover of Congress
Immediately after an election, candidates, activists, and journalists work to learn the reasons for voters’ choices in order to advance their careers. The answers are usually in contention. Election results tell us who won but not why the voters made their choices. Even exit polls often provide no more than a range of possible explanations. Yet research shows that soon after Election Day, long before systematic analysis is available, journalists …
Party politics in America
Political Spectacles and the Power of Resentment
There’s a reason why political scientists may find it difficult to answer one of the most central questions in American politics: Why do people who feel passed over by the larger society, and often
Assessing the ideological extremism of American party activists
In this article, we investigate whether it is appropriate to generalize about the ideological and demographic characteristics of American party activists. Many studies on party polarization emphasize the role of activists in encouraging the divisions within the parties, and in so doing, commonly treat activists as a homogeneous group. Here, we show that different forms of political activity attract systematically different types of individuals. S…
The Long War over Party Structure
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