Kathryn Pearson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Pearson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn |
| FAMILY NAME | Pearson |
| SIGNATURE | PEARSON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6225-2535 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 516 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Who Represents Me? Race, Gender, Partisan Congruence, and Representational Alternatives in a Polarized America
The belief among citizens that their views are represented is essential to the legitimacy of American democracy, but few studies have explicitly examined which political actors Americans feel best represent them. Using data from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we ask new questions about whether respondents who share a partisan, racial, or gender identification with their members of Congress (MCs) feel those members best represe…
President Trump and Congressional Republicans
To what extent have Republicans in Congress unified to work with President Trump, and what are the prospects for unity going forward? These questions are not as straightforward as they may seem given that the President is not deeply engaged in the policymaking process, he often reverses his positions, and he is prone to criticizing his most important partners in governing – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan – erod…
Response to Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan Slapin’s Review of Party Discipline in the U.S. House of Representatives
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Crossing the Aisle
In Crossing the Aisle, the first book dedicated to examining party switching in the U.S. Congress, Antoine Yoshinaka makes important theoretical and empirical contributions to our understanding of
Breaking Down the State
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…
The US Congressional Immigration Agenda
In this paper, we examine patterns of congressional action and inaction on immigration issues in the USA over the past two decades, with attention to the impact of partisan polarisation and examples of the effects of public opinion on members' votes and the immigration agenda itself. Our analysis covers 391 immigration policy votes between 1993 and 2012. Analysing 10 Congresses allows us to test hypotheses about the effects of partisan polarisati…
What It Takes to Win
When women run for office, they win at the same rate as men. A significant body of research substantiating this claim has been touted by scholars and women's groups alike. “Gender neutral” outcomes, however, mask important sex differences in congressional candidacies. Indeed, extensive research has revealed a gender gap in political ambition: women are more hesitant to run for office and are more concerned about their credentials and viability th…
Speaking for the Underrepresented in the House of Representatives
We ask whether women's descriptive representation in Congress enhances women's substantive representation through speechmaking on the House floor. Much of the research on women's substantive representation has focused on members' votes for and sponsorship of “women's issues” legislation. We depart from this research by systematically analyzing how members' gender and partisan identities affect gendered rhetoric in their floor speeches. In an era …
Elevating Women’s Voices in Congress
The authors analyze gender differences in members’ speech participation on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Speeches increase members’ visibility and voice in the legislative process, providing opportunities for members to highlight their policy knowledge, constituents’ concerns, and partisan commitments. The authors hypothesize that women’s underrepresentation, coupled with the related challenges that female legislators face in a …
Demographic Change and the Future of Congress
The United States population is changing in significant ways: it is growing larger, older, and more racially and ethnically diverse, and these changes are regionally concentrated. How will these changes affect the future of Congress? In this article, I show that demographic change has significant implications for the quality of representation, the legislative agenda, party coalitions, and the diversity of congressional membership in the future, e…
Congressional Parties and Civil Rights Politics from 1933 to 1972
The reversal in the Democratic and Republican parties’ positions on civil rights is widely viewed as one of the most important political transformations in the last century. Drawing upon new indicators of members’ support for civil rights - which more effectively gauge preferences than do the roll-call based measures analyzed in previous studies - we show that northern Democrats displaced northern Republicans as the leading advocates of civil rig…
Agenda Control, Majority Party Power, and the House Committee on Rules, 1937–52
The role of the U.S. House Rules Committee is consequential for theories of congressional parties, yet its role during the “conservative coalition” era is not well understood. We systematically analyzed the politics surrounding all special rules considered in Democratic Congresses from 1937 to 1952. We found that Rules repeatedly used its agenda power to push to the floor conservative initiatives that were opposed by the Democratic administration…
Discharge Petitions, Agenda Control, and the Congressional Committee System, 1929–76
The discharge petition process offers a simple majority of members of the U.S. House of Representatives a mechanism to circumvent gatekeeping imposed by committees and party leaders. Using recently discovered data on all discharge petitions filed from 1929 to 1976, along with public data from 1993 to 2006, we test hypotheses about partisan agenda control and the House committee system. Rather than universalistic norms of deference to committees, …
The Primary Reason for Women's Underrepresentation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom
The Primary Reason for Women's Under-Representation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom Jennifer L . Lawless Department of Political Science Brown University [email protected] Kathryn Pearson Department of Political Science University of Minnesota [email protected] Preliminary draft—please do not cite without the permission of the authors. It is well documented that, when women run in general elections for the House of Representatives, …
The Macropolitics of Congress
The Macropolitics of Congress. Edited by E. Scott Adler and John S. Lapinski. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 288p. $47.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. In this edited volume, 18 scholars provide new insight into congressional policymaking and the role of Congress in the separation-of-powers system. Taken together, the 11 chapters advance theories of congressional policymaking, analyze links between representation and policymaking, employ imp…
Testing Huntington
Samuel Huntington argues that the sheer number, concentration, linguistic homogeneity, and other characteristic of Hispanic immigrants will erode the dominance of English as a nationally unifying language, weaken the country's dominant cultural values, and promote ethnic allegiances over a primary identification as an American. Testing these hypotheses with data from the U.S. Census and national and Los Angeles opinion surveys, we show that Hispa…
The Primary Reason for Women's Underrepresentation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom
The Primary Reason for Women's Under-Representation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom Jennifer L . Lawless Department of Political Science Brown University [email protected] Kathryn Pearson Department of Political Science University of Minnesota [email protected] Preliminary draft—please do not cite without the permission of the authors. It is well documented that, when women run in general elections for the House of Representatives, …
What It Takes to Win
When women run for office, they win at the same rate as men. A significant body of research substantiating this claim has been touted by scholars and women's groups alike. “Gender neutral” outcomes, however, mask important sex differences in congressional candidacies. Indeed, extensive research has revealed a gender gap in political ambition: women are more hesitant to run for office and are more concerned about their credentials and viability th…
Elevating Women’s Voices in Congress
The authors analyze gender differences in members’ speech participation on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Speeches increase members’ visibility and voice in the legislative process, providing opportunities for members to highlight their policy knowledge, constituents’ concerns, and partisan commitments. The authors hypothesize that women’s underrepresentation, coupled with the related challenges that female legislators face in a …
Testing Huntington
Samuel Huntington argues that the sheer number, concentration, linguistic homogeneity, and other characteristic of Hispanic immigrants will erode the dominance of English as a nationally unifying language, weaken the country's dominant cultural values, and promote ethnic allegiances over a primary identification as an American. Testing these hypotheses with data from the U.S. Census and national and Los Angeles opinion surveys, we show that Hispa…
Speaking for the Underrepresented in the House of Representatives
We ask whether women's descriptive representation in Congress enhances women's substantive representation through speechmaking on the House floor. Much of the research on women's substantive representation has focused on members' votes for and sponsorship of “women's issues” legislation. We depart from this research by systematically analyzing how members' gender and partisan identities affect gendered rhetoric in their floor speeches. In an era …
Who Represents Me? Race, Gender, Partisan Congruence, and Representational Alternatives in a Polarized America
The belief among citizens that their views are represented is essential to the legitimacy of American democracy, but few studies have explicitly examined which political actors Americans feel best represent them. Using data from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we ask new questions about whether respondents who share a partisan, racial, or gender identification with their members of Congress (MCs) feel those members best represe…
Agenda Control, Majority Party Power, and the House Committee on Rules, 1937–52
The role of the U.S. House Rules Committee is consequential for theories of congressional parties, yet its role during the “conservative coalition” era is not well understood. We systematically analyzed the politics surrounding all special rules considered in Democratic Congresses from 1937 to 1952. We found that Rules repeatedly used its agenda power to push to the floor conservative initiatives that were opposed by the Democratic administration…
Congressional Parties and Civil Rights Politics from 1933 to 1972
The reversal in the Democratic and Republican parties’ positions on civil rights is widely viewed as one of the most important political transformations in the last century. Drawing upon new indicators of members’ support for civil rights - which more effectively gauge preferences than do the roll-call based measures analyzed in previous studies - we show that northern Democrats displaced northern Republicans as the leading advocates of civil rig…
Discharge Petitions, Agenda Control, and the Congressional Committee System, 1929–76
The discharge petition process offers a simple majority of members of the U.S. House of Representatives a mechanism to circumvent gatekeeping imposed by committees and party leaders. Using recently discovered data on all discharge petitions filed from 1929 to 1976, along with public data from 1993 to 2006, we test hypotheses about partisan agenda control and the House committee system. Rather than universalistic norms of deference to committees, …
The US Congressional Immigration Agenda
In this paper, we examine patterns of congressional action and inaction on immigration issues in the USA over the past two decades, with attention to the impact of partisan polarisation and examples of the effects of public opinion on members' votes and the immigration agenda itself. Our analysis covers 391 immigration policy votes between 1993 and 2012. Analysing 10 Congresses allows us to test hypotheses about the effects of partisan polarisati…
Demographic Change and the Future of Congress
The United States population is changing in significant ways: it is growing larger, older, and more racially and ethnically diverse, and these changes are regionally concentrated. How will these changes affect the future of Congress? In this article, I show that demographic change has significant implications for the quality of representation, the legislative agenda, party coalitions, and the diversity of congressional membership in the future, e…
The Macropolitics of Congress
The Macropolitics of Congress. Edited by E. Scott Adler and John S. Lapinski. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 288p. $47.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. In this edited volume, 18 scholars provide new insight into congressional policymaking and the role of Congress in the separation-of-powers system. Taken together, the 11 chapters advance theories of congressional policymaking, analyze links between representation and policymaking, employ imp…
President Trump and Congressional Republicans
To what extent have Republicans in Congress unified to work with President Trump, and what are the prospects for unity going forward? These questions are not as straightforward as they may seem given that the President is not deeply engaged in the policymaking process, he often reverses his positions, and he is prone to criticizing his most important partners in governing – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan – erod…
Testing Huntington
Samuel Huntington argues that the sheer number, concentration, linguistic homogeneity, and other characteristic of Hispanic immigrants will erode the dominance of English as a nationally unifying language, weaken the country's dominant cultural values, and promote ethnic allegiances over a primary identification as an American. Testing these hypotheses with data from the U.S. Census and national and Los Angeles opinion surveys, we show that Hispa…
The Primary Reason for Women's Underrepresentation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom
The Primary Reason for Women's Under-Representation? Reevaluating the Conventional Wisdom Jennifer L . Lawless Department of Political Science Brown University [email protected] Kathryn Pearson Department of Political Science University of Minnesota [email protected] Preliminary draft—please do not cite without the permission of the authors. It is well documented that, when women run in general elections for the House of Representatives, …
The Macropolitics of Congress
The Macropolitics of Congress. Edited by E. Scott Adler and John S. Lapinski. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 288p. $47.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. In this edited volume, 18 scholars provide new insight into congressional policymaking and the role of Congress in the separation-of-powers system. Taken together, the 11 chapters advance theories of congressional policymaking, analyze links between representation and policymaking, employ imp…
Agenda Control, Majority Party Power, and the House Committee on Rules, 1937–52
The role of the U.S. House Rules Committee is consequential for theories of congressional parties, yet its role during the “conservative coalition” era is not well understood. We systematically analyzed the politics surrounding all special rules considered in Democratic Congresses from 1937 to 1952. We found that Rules repeatedly used its agenda power to push to the floor conservative initiatives that were opposed by the Democratic administration…
Discharge Petitions, Agenda Control, and the Congressional Committee System, 1929–76
The discharge petition process offers a simple majority of members of the U.S. House of Representatives a mechanism to circumvent gatekeeping imposed by committees and party leaders. Using recently discovered data on all discharge petitions filed from 1929 to 1976, along with public data from 1993 to 2006, we test hypotheses about partisan agenda control and the House committee system. Rather than universalistic norms of deference to committees, …
Demographic Change and the Future of Congress
The United States population is changing in significant ways: it is growing larger, older, and more racially and ethnically diverse, and these changes are regionally concentrated. How will these changes affect the future of Congress? In this article, I show that demographic change has significant implications for the quality of representation, the legislative agenda, party coalitions, and the diversity of congressional membership in the future, e…
Congressional Parties and Civil Rights Politics from 1933 to 1972
The reversal in the Democratic and Republican parties’ positions on civil rights is widely viewed as one of the most important political transformations in the last century. Drawing upon new indicators of members’ support for civil rights - which more effectively gauge preferences than do the roll-call based measures analyzed in previous studies - we show that northern Democrats displaced northern Republicans as the leading advocates of civil rig…
Speaking for the Underrepresented in the House of Representatives
We ask whether women's descriptive representation in Congress enhances women's substantive representation through speechmaking on the House floor. Much of the research on women's substantive representation has focused on members' votes for and sponsorship of “women's issues” legislation. We depart from this research by systematically analyzing how members' gender and partisan identities affect gendered rhetoric in their floor speeches. In an era …
Elevating Women’s Voices in Congress
The authors analyze gender differences in members’ speech participation on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. Speeches increase members’ visibility and voice in the legislative process, providing opportunities for members to highlight their policy knowledge, constituents’ concerns, and partisan commitments. The authors hypothesize that women’s underrepresentation, coupled with the related challenges that female legislators face in a …
What It Takes to Win
When women run for office, they win at the same rate as men. A significant body of research substantiating this claim has been touted by scholars and women's groups alike. “Gender neutral” outcomes, however, mask important sex differences in congressional candidacies. Indeed, extensive research has revealed a gender gap in political ambition: women are more hesitant to run for office and are more concerned about their credentials and viability th…
Breaking Down the State
Recent years have seen an explosion of protest movements around the world, and academic theories are racing to catch up with them. This series aims to further our understanding of the origins, dealings, decisions, and outcomes of social movements by fostering dialogue among many traditions of thought, across European nations and across continents. All theoretical perspectives are welcome. Books in the series typically combine theory with empirica…
The US Congressional Immigration Agenda
In this paper, we examine patterns of congressional action and inaction on immigration issues in the USA over the past two decades, with attention to the impact of partisan polarisation and examples of the effects of public opinion on members' votes and the immigration agenda itself. Our analysis covers 391 immigration policy votes between 1993 and 2012. Analysing 10 Congresses allows us to test hypotheses about the effects of partisan polarisati…
Crossing the Aisle
In Crossing the Aisle, the first book dedicated to examining party switching in the U.S. Congress, Antoine Yoshinaka makes important theoretical and empirical contributions to our understanding of
President Trump and Congressional Republicans
To what extent have Republicans in Congress unified to work with President Trump, and what are the prospects for unity going forward? These questions are not as straightforward as they may seem given that the President is not deeply engaged in the policymaking process, he often reverses his positions, and he is prone to criticizing his most important partners in governing – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan – erod…
Response to Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jonathan Slapin’s Review of Party Discipline in the U.S. House of Representatives
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Who Represents Me? Race, Gender, Partisan Congruence, and Representational Alternatives in a Polarized America
The belief among citizens that their views are represented is essential to the legitimacy of American democracy, but few studies have explicitly examined which political actors Americans feel best represent them. Using data from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, we ask new questions about whether respondents who share a partisan, racial, or gender identification with their members of Congress (MCs) feel those members best represe…
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