William Hixon
Biographic Data
| ID | 4386083 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Hixon |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Hixon |
| SIGNATURE | HIXON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Memphis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Explaining attitudes toward genetically modified foods in the European Union
This article examines the factors that condition citizens’ attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) foods by considering individual-level attitudes in 15 European Union member states. Previous research has shown that European attitudes toward GM foods are influenced by overall levels of scientific literacy, consumer exposure to media coverage, and broader socio-political preferences. This article seeks to expand on this literature by testing so…
Agendas, Side Issues and Leadership in the US House
We introduce a view of congressional party leaders as strategic manipulators of issue dimensions, similar in spirit to Riker's (1982, 1986) heresthetics. Party leaders have incentives to add to bills content from a secondary dimension in order to attract moderates’ support. This strategy can be cheaper than compromising along the liberal-conservative dimension. Empirically, moderates differ in their second-dimension preferences from non-moderates…
Examining Claims about Procedural Choice
Examiining Claims about Procedural Choice
Congressional theories offer competing explanations of the role of restrictive amendment rules in the U.S. House (Krehbiel 1997; Dion and Huber 1996; Sinclair 1999). But this literature has largely ignored the importance of waivers in the legislative process. Our analysis begins to address this gap by utilizing waivers to test theoretical claims that to this point have only been applied to the amendment portion of special rules. We find waivers a…
Explaining Partisanship on Special Rules in the Postreform House
Informational, distributive and partisan theories offer competing interpretations of the role of restrictive rules in the US House. Empirical tests in this literature focus almost exclusively on the amendment restriction portion of special rules, treating open rules as friendly and restrictive rules as unfriendly to the minority party or chamber as a whole. Oddly, however, there is a significant amount of conflict - partisan conflict in particula…
Measuring Congressional Support for the President
Assessing presidential influence in Congress requires accurate measures of legislators' baseline preferences. Common strategies extract preferences from roll‐call votes. One approach selects votes most likely to reveal uncorrupted, sincere preferences, and the other, NOMINATE, derives summaries of members' positions from large samples of votes. This article finds that NOMINATE scores do not accurately recover the relative positions of members in …
Measuring Congressional Support for the President
Assessing presidential influence in Congress requires accurate measures of legislators' baseline preferences. Common strategies extract preferences from roll-call votes. One approach selects votes most likely to reveal uncorrupted, sincere preferences, and the other, NOMINATE, derives summaries of members' positions from large samples of votes. This article finds that NOMINATE scores do not accurately recover the relative positions of members in …
Explaining attitudes toward genetically modified foods in the European Union
This article examines the factors that condition citizens’ attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) foods by considering individual-level attitudes in 15 European Union member states. Previous research has shown that European attitudes toward GM foods are influenced by overall levels of scientific literacy, consumer exposure to media coverage, and broader socio-political preferences. This article seeks to expand on this literature by testing so…
Agendas, Side Issues and Leadership in the US House
We introduce a view of congressional party leaders as strategic manipulators of issue dimensions, similar in spirit to Riker's (1982, 1986) heresthetics. Party leaders have incentives to add to bills content from a secondary dimension in order to attract moderates’ support. This strategy can be cheaper than compromising along the liberal-conservative dimension. Empirically, moderates differ in their second-dimension preferences from non-moderates…
Examiining Claims about Procedural Choice
Congressional theories offer competing explanations of the role of restrictive amendment rules in the U.S. House (Krehbiel 1997; Dion and Huber 1996; Sinclair 1999). But this literature has largely ignored the importance of waivers in the legislative process. Our analysis begins to address this gap by utilizing waivers to test theoretical claims that to this point have only been applied to the amendment portion of special rules. We find waivers a…
Explaining Partisanship on Special Rules in the Postreform House
Informational, distributive and partisan theories offer competing interpretations of the role of restrictive rules in the US House. Empirical tests in this literature focus almost exclusively on the amendment restriction portion of special rules, treating open rules as friendly and restrictive rules as unfriendly to the minority party or chamber as a whole. Oddly, however, there is a significant amount of conflict - partisan conflict in particula…
Measuring Congressional Support for the President
Assessing presidential influence in Congress requires accurate measures of legislators' baseline preferences. Common strategies extract preferences from roll‐call votes. One approach selects votes most likely to reveal uncorrupted, sincere preferences, and the other, NOMINATE, derives summaries of members' positions from large samples of votes. This article finds that NOMINATE scores do not accurately recover the relative positions of members in …
Measuring Congressional Support for the President
Assessing presidential influence in Congress requires accurate measures of legislators' baseline preferences. Common strategies extract preferences from roll-call votes. One approach selects votes most likely to reveal uncorrupted, sincere preferences, and the other, NOMINATE, derives summaries of members' positions from large samples of votes. This article finds that NOMINATE scores do not accurately recover the relative positions of members in …
Measuring Congressional Support for the President
Assessing presidential influence in Congress requires accurate measures of legislators' baseline preferences. Common strategies extract preferences from roll‐call votes. One approach selects votes most likely to reveal uncorrupted, sincere preferences, and the other, NOMINATE, derives summaries of members' positions from large samples of votes. This article finds that NOMINATE scores do not accurately recover the relative positions of members in …
Measuring Congressional Support for the President
Assessing presidential influence in Congress requires accurate measures of legislators' baseline preferences. Common strategies extract preferences from roll-call votes. One approach selects votes most likely to reveal uncorrupted, sincere preferences, and the other, NOMINATE, derives summaries of members' positions from large samples of votes. This article finds that NOMINATE scores do not accurately recover the relative positions of members in …
Explaining Partisanship on Special Rules in the Postreform House
Informational, distributive and partisan theories offer competing interpretations of the role of restrictive rules in the US House. Empirical tests in this literature focus almost exclusively on the amendment restriction portion of special rules, treating open rules as friendly and restrictive rules as unfriendly to the minority party or chamber as a whole. Oddly, however, there is a significant amount of conflict - partisan conflict in particula…
Examining Claims about Procedural Choice
Examiining Claims about Procedural Choice
Congressional theories offer competing explanations of the role of restrictive amendment rules in the U.S. House (Krehbiel 1997; Dion and Huber 1996; Sinclair 1999). But this literature has largely ignored the importance of waivers in the legislative process. Our analysis begins to address this gap by utilizing waivers to test theoretical claims that to this point have only been applied to the amendment portion of special rules. We find waivers a…
Agendas, Side Issues and Leadership in the US House
We introduce a view of congressional party leaders as strategic manipulators of issue dimensions, similar in spirit to Riker's (1982, 1986) heresthetics. Party leaders have incentives to add to bills content from a secondary dimension in order to attract moderates’ support. This strategy can be cheaper than compromising along the liberal-conservative dimension. Empirically, moderates differ in their second-dimension preferences from non-moderates…
Explaining attitudes toward genetically modified foods in the European Union
This article examines the factors that condition citizens’ attitudes toward genetically modified (GM) foods by considering individual-level attitudes in 15 European Union member states. Previous research has shown that European attitudes toward GM foods are influenced by overall levels of scientific literacy, consumer exposure to media coverage, and broader socio-political preferences. This article seeks to expand on this literature by testing so…
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