Jeremy C Pope
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy C Pope |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy C |
| FAMILY NAME | Pope |
| SIGNATURE | POPE J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brigham Young University , 745 Kimball Tower, Provo, UT 84602 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 559 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Realignments of the Twenty-first Century: A Review of Polarized by Degrees , by Matt Grossmann and Daniel Hopkins
Matthew Grossmann and Daniel Hopkins have provided a valuable disciplinary service by creating the theory of an “educultural” realignment—one that has already taken place in the early twenty-first century. While this book should be on the shelf of anyone interested in where American politics has been and where it is going, it raises a number of questions about the future. Where will this lead? Will the pattern among white voters extend to other g…
The Crucial Role of Race in Twenty-First Century US Political Realignment
Traditional realignment theory has fallen out of fashion among political scientists, yet the popular press talk about political realignments with great regularity. However, in this research note we show that political science should reconsider realignment theory because over the last decade American politics has dramatically realigned—but only for white Americans. Specifically, we demonstrate that income has gone from a highly polarizing factor t…
Does Political Participation Contribute to Polarization in the United States
Polarization and participation are often connected in the political science literature, though sometimes the causality runs participation to polarization and sometimes the causality runs in the reverse direction. In some accounts there is an expectation that increasing participation and increasing polarization generate an ongoing spiral effect. In this paper we evaluate the over-time relationships between polarization and participation by assessi…
What Leads Racially Resentful Voters to Choose Black Candidates
In studies of voting behavior, racial resentment has consistently been associated with decreased support for black candidates. In this article we bring together a unique collection of observational data and survey experiments to show how, in the certain contexts, exactly the opposite occurs: racially resentful voters prefer to vote for a black candidate over a white competitor. Higher levels of racial resentment do not imply an unyielding opposit…
Father Founders: Did Child Gender Affect Voting at the Constitutional Convention
How did child gender affect deliberations and voting at the 1787 U.S. Constitutional Convention? Though recent scholarship has found profound and far‐reaching influence of child gender upon the beliefs and behavior of modern parents, there is no reason to believe that this is only an important consideration in the present. Leveraging the natural experiment of child gender, we test whether the gender of a delegate's children influenced his voting.…
Measuring and Manipulating Constitutional Evaluations in the States: Legitimacy Versus Veneration
American civil religion places the U.S. Constitution on a pedestal. Although this veneration is well-documented, it is unclear where it originates and why other constitutions do not attract the same reverence. We develop a measure of constitutional respect and conduct a randomized survey experiment testing whether new information can change respondents’ evaluations of their state or national constitutions. We find that people do respond to new in…
Who Gets the Credit? Legislative Responsiveness and Evaluations of Members, Parties, and the US Congress – Addendum
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 Gets the Credit? Legislative Responsiveness and Evaluations of Members, Parties, and the US Congress
This article considers the hypothesis that the positive actions taken by members of Congress (MCs) influence citizens’ evaluations of them, their party, and Congress as an institution. We begin with a look at the available cross-sectional survey data on contact with legislators and legislator and institutional approval. Their legislative responsiveness appears to have a small spillover effect on institutions. However, when we employ a unique pane…
Voting for a Founding: Testing the Effect of Economic Interests at the Federal Convention of 1787
Previous work measuring the voting patterns of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention largely focused on either individual delegate positions for a handful of key votes or on state delegation positions for a far broader set of votes. We remedy this limitation by modeling the key first two months of the Convention including both some \nindividual-level and all delegation-level voting, while simultaneously estimating the effect of various e…
Who Caucuses? An Experimental Approach to Institutional Design and Electoral Participation
During the 2008 presidential campaign, the question of mass participation in primaries and caucuses became unusually salient, with a close Democratic race calling special attention to these often overlooked procedural elements of America's democratic system. This study adds a new element to scholarship on institutional design and citizen participation by way of a survey-based experiment conducted in the midst of the 2008 campaign. The results sho…
A Field Experiment on Legislators’ Home Styles: Service versus Policy
We conducted a field experiment involving roughly 1,000 letters sent by actual individuals to nearly 500 different legislative offices in order to test whether legislative offices prioritize service over policy in their home style. We find strong evidence that both state and federal legislative offices are more responsive to service requests than they are to policy requests. This pattern is consistent with the desire of legislators to gain leeway…
Mapping Dimensions of Conflict at the Federal Convention of 1787
Previous work on the Federal Convention of 1787 hypothesized multiple dimensions of conflict. We evaluate the dimensionality of conflict using a new method for estimating state delegation positions and proposals that incorporates the many divided votes at the convention. The results suggest that three dimensions are adequate for most analyses and the first dimension—proportional representation in the legislature—the most important. Finally, we ex…
Reconsidering the Great Compromise at the Federal Convention of 1787: Deliberation and Agenda Effects on the Senate and Slavery
Conventional accounts of the Federal Convention of 1787 point to the many different compromises made at the convention, specifically the Great Compromise on representation and the Three-Fifths Compromise on slavery. Often these compromises are treated as
Tea Time in America? The Impact of the Tea Party Movement on the 2010 Midterm Elections
By winning the presidency and strengthening its majority in both chambers of Congress, the 2008 election gave control of the government to the Democratic Party. However, as the 2010 election season unfolded, the news for the Democratic Party could not have been much worse. Economic conditions had not improved dramatically. A bitter and lengthy fight over health care reform signaled to citizens that little had changed in how Washington, DC, govern…
Measuring Aggregate‐Level Ideological Heterogeneity
Ideological heterogeneity is a key variable for the study of legislative and electoral politics. Scholars have long recognized that members with more ideologically heterogeneous constituencies behave differently than members with more homogeneous ones. Empirical tests of these theories, however, have typically been stymied by a lack of appropriate measures. We corrected this shortcoming by developing a measurement model for ideological heterogene…
Measuring Changes in American Party Reputations, 1939—2004
Scholars increasingly emphasize that party reputations are valuable electoral assets. The authors measure temporal change in the parties’ relative reputations across several distinct policy areas and find that each party tends to have advantages on certain issues but that the patterns are far from permanent. Democrats have strong advantages on social welfare issues, but Republicans have made some gains. Republican advantages on taxes and “law and…
Made in Congress? Testing the Electoral Implications of Party Ideological Brand Names
The data from Figure 1 come from a survey that we designed to measure citizens ’ perceptions of party unity on a set of issues corresponding to key congressional votes. Such perceptions are usually not covered in traditional surveys. The data were collected as part of the 2006
Polarization in the American Public: Misconceptions and Misreadings
Primary Elections and Candidate Ideology: Out of Step with the Primary Electorate
This article draws on a new dataset of House primary‐ and general‐election outcomes (1956–98) to examine the relationship between primary elections and candidate ideology. We show that, like presidential candidates, congressional candidates face a strategic‐positioning dilemma: should they align themselves with their general‐ or primary‐election constituencies? Relative to general‐election voters, primary voters favor more ideologically extreme c…
Primary Elections and Candidate Ideology: Out of Step with the Primary Electorate
This article draws on a new dataset of House primary‐ and general‐election outcomes (1956–98) to examine the relationship between primary elections and candidate ideology. We show that, like presidential candidates, congressional candidates face a strategic‐positioning dilemma: should they align themselves with their general‐ or primary‐election constituencies? Relative to general‐election voters, primary voters favor more ideologically extreme c…
Polarization in the American Public: Misconceptions and Misreadings
A Field Experiment on Legislators’ Home Styles: Service versus Policy
We conducted a field experiment involving roughly 1,000 letters sent by actual individuals to nearly 500 different legislative offices in order to test whether legislative offices prioritize service over policy in their home style. We find strong evidence that both state and federal legislative offices are more responsive to service requests than they are to policy requests. This pattern is consistent with the desire of legislators to gain leeway…
Made in Congress? Testing the Electoral Implications of Party Ideological Brand Names
The data from Figure 1 come from a survey that we designed to measure citizens ’ perceptions of party unity on a set of issues corresponding to key congressional votes. Such perceptions are usually not covered in traditional surveys. The data were collected as part of the 2006
Measuring Changes in American Party Reputations, 1939—2004
Scholars increasingly emphasize that party reputations are valuable electoral assets. The authors measure temporal change in the parties’ relative reputations across several distinct policy areas and find that each party tends to have advantages on certain issues but that the patterns are far from permanent. Democrats have strong advantages on social welfare issues, but Republicans have made some gains. Republican advantages on taxes and “law and…
What Leads Racially Resentful Voters to Choose Black Candidates
In studies of voting behavior, racial resentment has consistently been associated with decreased support for black candidates. In this article we bring together a unique collection of observational data and survey experiments to show how, in the certain contexts, exactly the opposite occurs: racially resentful voters prefer to vote for a black candidate over a white competitor. Higher levels of racial resentment do not imply an unyielding opposit…
Reconsidering the Great Compromise at the Federal Convention of 1787: Deliberation and Agenda Effects on the Senate and Slavery
Conventional accounts of the Federal Convention of 1787 point to the many different compromises made at the convention, specifically the Great Compromise on representation and the Three-Fifths Compromise on slavery. Often these compromises are treated as
Measuring Aggregate‐Level Ideological Heterogeneity
Ideological heterogeneity is a key variable for the study of legislative and electoral politics. Scholars have long recognized that members with more ideologically heterogeneous constituencies behave differently than members with more homogeneous ones. Empirical tests of these theories, however, have typically been stymied by a lack of appropriate measures. We corrected this shortcoming by developing a measurement model for ideological heterogene…
Tea Time in America? The Impact of the Tea Party Movement on the 2010 Midterm Elections
By winning the presidency and strengthening its majority in both chambers of Congress, the 2008 election gave control of the government to the Democratic Party. However, as the 2010 election season unfolded, the news for the Democratic Party could not have been much worse. Economic conditions had not improved dramatically. A bitter and lengthy fight over health care reform signaled to citizens that little had changed in how Washington, DC, govern…
Mapping Dimensions of Conflict at the Federal Convention of 1787
Previous work on the Federal Convention of 1787 hypothesized multiple dimensions of conflict. We evaluate the dimensionality of conflict using a new method for estimating state delegation positions and proposals that incorporates the many divided votes at the convention. The results suggest that three dimensions are adequate for most analyses and the first dimension—proportional representation in the legislature—the most important. Finally, we ex…
Who Caucuses? An Experimental Approach to Institutional Design and Electoral Participation
During the 2008 presidential campaign, the question of mass participation in primaries and caucuses became unusually salient, with a close Democratic race calling special attention to these often overlooked procedural elements of America's democratic system. This study adds a new element to scholarship on institutional design and citizen participation by way of a survey-based experiment conducted in the midst of the 2008 campaign. The results sho…
Does Political Participation Contribute to Polarization in the United States
Polarization and participation are often connected in the political science literature, though sometimes the causality runs participation to polarization and sometimes the causality runs in the reverse direction. In some accounts there is an expectation that increasing participation and increasing polarization generate an ongoing spiral effect. In this paper we evaluate the over-time relationships between polarization and participation by assessi…
Who Gets the Credit? Legislative Responsiveness and Evaluations of Members, Parties, and the US Congress
This article considers the hypothesis that the positive actions taken by members of Congress (MCs) influence citizens’ evaluations of them, their party, and Congress as an institution. We begin with a look at the available cross-sectional survey data on contact with legislators and legislator and institutional approval. Their legislative responsiveness appears to have a small spillover effect on institutions. However, when we employ a unique pane…
Voting for a Founding: Testing the Effect of Economic Interests at the Federal Convention of 1787
Previous work measuring the voting patterns of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention largely focused on either individual delegate positions for a handful of key votes or on state delegation positions for a far broader set of votes. We remedy this limitation by modeling the key first two months of the Convention including both some \nindividual-level and all delegation-level voting, while simultaneously estimating the effect of various e…
Father Founders: Did Child Gender Affect Voting at the Constitutional Convention
How did child gender affect deliberations and voting at the 1787 U.S. Constitutional Convention? Though recent scholarship has found profound and far‐reaching influence of child gender upon the beliefs and behavior of modern parents, there is no reason to believe that this is only an important consideration in the present. Leveraging the natural experiment of child gender, we test whether the gender of a delegate's children influenced his voting.…
Measuring and Manipulating Constitutional Evaluations in the States: Legitimacy Versus Veneration
American civil religion places the U.S. Constitution on a pedestal. Although this veneration is well-documented, it is unclear where it originates and why other constitutions do not attract the same reverence. We develop a measure of constitutional respect and conduct a randomized survey experiment testing whether new information can change respondents’ evaluations of their state or national constitutions. We find that people do respond to new in…
Primary Elections and Candidate Ideology: Out of Step with the Primary Electorate
This article draws on a new dataset of House primary‐ and general‐election outcomes (1956–98) to examine the relationship between primary elections and candidate ideology. We show that, like presidential candidates, congressional candidates face a strategic‐positioning dilemma: should they align themselves with their general‐ or primary‐election constituencies? Relative to general‐election voters, primary voters favor more ideologically extreme c…
Made in Congress? Testing the Electoral Implications of Party Ideological Brand Names
The data from Figure 1 come from a survey that we designed to measure citizens ’ perceptions of party unity on a set of issues corresponding to key congressional votes. Such perceptions are usually not covered in traditional surveys. The data were collected as part of the 2006
Polarization in the American Public: Misconceptions and Misreadings
Measuring Changes in American Party Reputations, 1939—2004
Scholars increasingly emphasize that party reputations are valuable electoral assets. The authors measure temporal change in the parties’ relative reputations across several distinct policy areas and find that each party tends to have advantages on certain issues but that the patterns are far from permanent. Democrats have strong advantages on social welfare issues, but Republicans have made some gains. Republican advantages on taxes and “law and…
Measuring Aggregate‐Level Ideological Heterogeneity
Ideological heterogeneity is a key variable for the study of legislative and electoral politics. Scholars have long recognized that members with more ideologically heterogeneous constituencies behave differently than members with more homogeneous ones. Empirical tests of these theories, however, have typically been stymied by a lack of appropriate measures. We corrected this shortcoming by developing a measurement model for ideological heterogene…
Reconsidering the Great Compromise at the Federal Convention of 1787: Deliberation and Agenda Effects on the Senate and Slavery
Conventional accounts of the Federal Convention of 1787 point to the many different compromises made at the convention, specifically the Great Compromise on representation and the Three-Fifths Compromise on slavery. Often these compromises are treated as
Tea Time in America? The Impact of the Tea Party Movement on the 2010 Midterm Elections
By winning the presidency and strengthening its majority in both chambers of Congress, the 2008 election gave control of the government to the Democratic Party. However, as the 2010 election season unfolded, the news for the Democratic Party could not have been much worse. Economic conditions had not improved dramatically. A bitter and lengthy fight over health care reform signaled to citizens that little had changed in how Washington, DC, govern…
A Field Experiment on Legislators’ Home Styles: Service versus Policy
We conducted a field experiment involving roughly 1,000 letters sent by actual individuals to nearly 500 different legislative offices in order to test whether legislative offices prioritize service over policy in their home style. We find strong evidence that both state and federal legislative offices are more responsive to service requests than they are to policy requests. This pattern is consistent with the desire of legislators to gain leeway…
Mapping Dimensions of Conflict at the Federal Convention of 1787
Previous work on the Federal Convention of 1787 hypothesized multiple dimensions of conflict. We evaluate the dimensionality of conflict using a new method for estimating state delegation positions and proposals that incorporates the many divided votes at the convention. The results suggest that three dimensions are adequate for most analyses and the first dimension—proportional representation in the legislature—the most important. Finally, we ex…
Voting for a Founding: Testing the Effect of Economic Interests at the Federal Convention of 1787
Previous work measuring the voting patterns of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention largely focused on either individual delegate positions for a handful of key votes or on state delegation positions for a far broader set of votes. We remedy this limitation by modeling the key first two months of the Convention including both some \nindividual-level and all delegation-level voting, while simultaneously estimating the effect of various e…
Who Caucuses? An Experimental Approach to Institutional Design and Electoral Participation
During the 2008 presidential campaign, the question of mass participation in primaries and caucuses became unusually salient, with a close Democratic race calling special attention to these often overlooked procedural elements of America's democratic system. This study adds a new element to scholarship on institutional design and citizen participation by way of a survey-based experiment conducted in the midst of the 2008 campaign. The results sho…
Who Gets the Credit? Legislative Responsiveness and Evaluations of Members, Parties, and the US Congress
This article considers the hypothesis that the positive actions taken by members of Congress (MCs) influence citizens’ evaluations of them, their party, and Congress as an institution. We begin with a look at the available cross-sectional survey data on contact with legislators and legislator and institutional approval. Their legislative responsiveness appears to have a small spillover effect on institutions. However, when we employ a unique pane…
Who Gets the Credit? Legislative Responsiveness and Evaluations of Members, Parties, and the US Congress – Addendum
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
Measuring and Manipulating Constitutional Evaluations in the States: Legitimacy Versus Veneration
American civil religion places the U.S. Constitution on a pedestal. Although this veneration is well-documented, it is unclear where it originates and why other constitutions do not attract the same reverence. We develop a measure of constitutional respect and conduct a randomized survey experiment testing whether new information can change respondents’ evaluations of their state or national constitutions. We find that people do respond to new in…
What Leads Racially Resentful Voters to Choose Black Candidates
In studies of voting behavior, racial resentment has consistently been associated with decreased support for black candidates. In this article we bring together a unique collection of observational data and survey experiments to show how, in the certain contexts, exactly the opposite occurs: racially resentful voters prefer to vote for a black candidate over a white competitor. Higher levels of racial resentment do not imply an unyielding opposit…
Father Founders: Did Child Gender Affect Voting at the Constitutional Convention
How did child gender affect deliberations and voting at the 1787 U.S. Constitutional Convention? Though recent scholarship has found profound and far‐reaching influence of child gender upon the beliefs and behavior of modern parents, there is no reason to believe that this is only an important consideration in the present. Leveraging the natural experiment of child gender, we test whether the gender of a delegate's children influenced his voting.…
Does Political Participation Contribute to Polarization in the United States
Polarization and participation are often connected in the political science literature, though sometimes the causality runs participation to polarization and sometimes the causality runs in the reverse direction. In some accounts there is an expectation that increasing participation and increasing polarization generate an ongoing spiral effect. In this paper we evaluate the over-time relationships between polarization and participation by assessi…
The Crucial Role of Race in Twenty-First Century US Political Realignment
Traditional realignment theory has fallen out of fashion among political scientists, yet the popular press talk about political realignments with great regularity. However, in this research note we show that political science should reconsider realignment theory because over the last decade American politics has dramatically realigned—but only for white Americans. Specifically, we demonstrate that income has gone from a highly polarizing factor t…
Realignments of the Twenty-first Century: A Review of Polarized by Degrees , by Matt Grossmann and Daniel Hopkins
Matthew Grossmann and Daniel Hopkins have provided a valuable disciplinary service by creating the theory of an “educultural” realignment—one that has already taken place in the early twenty-first century. While this book should be on the shelf of anyone interested in where American politics has been and where it is going, it raises a number of questions about the future. Where will this lead? Will the pattern among white voters extend to other g…
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