J A Parry
Biographic Data
| ID | 8900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Parry |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Parry |
| SIGNATURE | PARRY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arkansas at Fayetteville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1643-9459 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Does more matter? Critical mass and legislative influence
Scholars are divided on whether increased group size helps or hurts political minorities. We test the concept of “critical mass” using a different kind of long-time minority: pre-realignment Republicans in the American South. In Arkansas, after a century of token status, the minority party doubled its numbers in the late 1990s, held steady through the 2000s, then surged to a super majority. This stair-stepped transformation opened a unique window…
The Rule, Not the Exception: One-Party Monopolies in the American States
Thousands of studies have examined party competition in the American states, finding significant consequences for voter turnout, policy adoptions, and more. Long-term patterns of party control have received less attention. Here, we reexamine the operationalization of party competition. We then update Klarner’s state partisan balance data to include state house and senate composition and gubernatorial vote share since the 1930s, adding—in light of…
The inconsequence of negative statehouse evaluations on ballot measures: Evidence from survey experiments
Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government
Direct Democracy, Educative Effects, and the (Mis)Measurement of Ballot Measure Awareness
The Clinton Effect? The (Non)Impact of a High‐Profile Candidate on Gender Stereotypes
Objectives Does the presence of a particular high‐profile female politician influence how citizens think about women in politics generally? Methods We randomly assigned respondents in four statewide polls either to receive a cue about Hillary Clinton followed by a battery of questions about women in politics generally, or to hear only the women in politics battery. Results Drawing on scholarship from social psychology about the role of exemplars …
In defense of the lowly scorecard: What legislator ratings can tell us about interest groups
Gubernatorial Endorsements and Ballot Measure Approval
Voters often make decisions on ballot measures with limited information. Research shows, however, that elite endorsements can help voters overcome their information deficiencies. Using survey experiments, we evaluate the effect of a gubernatorial endorsement on three recent ballot measures. We find that identifying the governor as a proponent of a particular measure has a significant effect on respondents' support for only one of the three ballot…
The Impact of Petition Signing on Voter Turnout
The Impact of Contact with Gay and Lesbian Couples on Attitudes about Gays/Lesbians and Gay‐Related Policies
Contact with individual lesbians and gay men leads to more positive evaluations of the group and more support for pro‐LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) public policies. Increasingly, gay rights activists are making “gay families” central to their communications to the public about gay issues and policies. This prompts a new question in the area of contact theory: does contact with same‐sex couples have a different impact on attitudes…
Political Culture, Public Opinion, and Policy (Non)Diffusion: The Case of Gay‐ and Lesbian‐Related Issues in Arkansas
Objectives. Just after three in four Arkansas voters endorsed a state constitutional amendment barring state recognition of same‐sex marriages, a comprehensive state‐level survey allowed a closer look into the attitudes of Arkansans on a variety of gay‐ and lesbian‐related issues. When placed in the context of Arkansas's political culture and ideological patters, this serves as a case study of the relationship between public opinion, specific pol…
Pursuing the Early Voter: Does the Early Bird Get the Worm
In the 2004 election, 30 states offered the option to vote before Election Day with no excuse (National Conference of State Legislators, 2004 National Conference of State Legislatures . ( 2004 ). Absentee and early voting, updated October 27, 2004. Available from http://www.ncsl.org/programs/legman/elect/absentearly.htm. Accessed 13 January 2005 . [Google Scholar]), up from 26 in 2002. For parties, interest groups, and campaigns that have begun e…
The State of State Polls: Old Challenges, New Opportunities
The prospect of a full complement of regularly-conducted, publicly-released state-level polls has both excited and eluded scholars of state politics and public opinion for decades. Here, we examine the current status of state-level polling in the U.S. Specifically, we rely on interviews with 51 state poll directors to investigate the location, frequency, scope, budget, purpose, content, and perceived policy impact of such projects. We also explor…
Leave the Rascals In? Explaining the Poor Prospects of Term Limit Extensions
Voters in nearly half the states adopted term limits between 1990 and 2000, and recent efforts to repeal or extend these caps generally have suffered sound defeats. Past research demonstrates that while robust majorities approved of limiting the terms of elected officials, support was strongest among government cynics and minority-party identifiers. Here, we investigate the impact of trust and partisanship on attitudes toward a 2004 Arkansas prop…
Mobilizing the Seldom Voter: Campaign Contact and Effects in High-Profile Elections
“The Great Negro State of the Country?”: Black Legislators in Arkansas: 1973-2000
Scholarship on African American political participation—like research on political participation generally—has focused largely on the national-level preferences of citizens and policy makers. Considerably less attention has been paid to such dynamics in the American states. This article provides an introduction to Black legislative activity in the State of Arkansas with an eye on descriptive and substantive representation issues. Specifically, th…
O Other, Where Art Thou? Support for Multiparty Politics in the United States
Objective. We test hypotheses about support for multiparty politics in the United States. We expect that individual‐level attitudes and state‐level partisan context determine who supports having more parties. Methods. Survey data are used to model attitudes about having additional parties to challenge Democrats and Republicans. Results. Self‐identified partisans are opposed to additional parties, but independents who “lean” toward a major party a…
The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir
The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir. By Dale Bumpers. (2003; Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. Pp. 296. Illustrations, appendix. $19.95, paper.) The Arkansas so ably revealed in this memoir is too little known those living outside its borders and too little examined by those within. Sensitively situated against a backdrop of segregation, the Great Depression, World War II, and the profound social changes brought about b…
Provincialism, Personalism, and Politics: Campaign Spending and the 2002 U.S. Senate Race in Arkansas
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
Family Leave Policies: Examining Choice and Contingency in Industrialized Nations
tigations of the conditions likely to spur the adoption of advanced family leave policies. In this article, I systematically examine-in the form of three detailed case studies-factors that may contribute to cross-national variations in the quality of leave benefits. The central questions I explore are: 1) in what ways do the leave policies of industrialized nation states vary; and 2) what factors best explain such variation? I first explain the t…
Sex, Age, and the Implementation of the Motor Voter Act: The 1996 Presidential Election
Objective . Among the existing studies of political participation, few discuss differences between men and women. Of those published, most have focused upon substantive policy preferences, perhaps noting women's newly dominant electoral presence but not probing its characteristics or limits. In this analysis we build on the work of Schlozman, Burns, and Verba (1994) by examining the compound effects of closing dates, state National Voter Registra…
"What Women Wanted": Arkansas Women's Commissions and the ERA
AN IMPORTANT BUT OFTEN OVERLOOKED ELEMENT of women's movements of late twentieth century is women's commission. Broadly defined as a government-appointed task force charged with studying improving status of first such unit established in United States was a Kennedy administration initiative: President's Commission on Status of Women (PCSW).1 Chaired by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, PCSW was officially in operation from 1961 to 1963 in 1965…
Choosing Not to Choose in Comparative Policy Research Design: The Case of the Research Network on Gender, Politics, and the State
This research note presents the research design for an in ‐progress comparative study on women's policy offices being conducted by the Research Network on Gender. Politics. and the State. The goal of this article is to examine how this project has been integrating a combined approach into its core research design. It argues that rather than conceptualizing the research design enterprise in terms of a zero‐sum game, where a decision to use either …
The Impact of Contact with Gay and Lesbian Couples on Attitudes about Gays/Lesbians and Gay‐Related Policies
Contact with individual lesbians and gay men leads to more positive evaluations of the group and more support for pro‐LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) public policies. Increasingly, gay rights activists are making “gay families” central to their communications to the public about gay issues and policies. This prompts a new question in the area of contact theory: does contact with same‐sex couples have a different impact on attitudes…
Mobilizing the Seldom Voter: Campaign Contact and Effects in High-Profile Elections
The Impact of Petition Signing on Voter Turnout
O Other, Where Art Thou? Support for Multiparty Politics in the United States
Objective. We test hypotheses about support for multiparty politics in the United States. We expect that individual‐level attitudes and state‐level partisan context determine who supports having more parties. Methods. Survey data are used to model attitudes about having additional parties to challenge Democrats and Republicans. Results. Self‐identified partisans are opposed to additional parties, but independents who “lean” toward a major party a…
Direct Democracy, Educative Effects, and the (Mis)Measurement of Ballot Measure Awareness
Gubernatorial Endorsements and Ballot Measure Approval
Voters often make decisions on ballot measures with limited information. Research shows, however, that elite endorsements can help voters overcome their information deficiencies. Using survey experiments, we evaluate the effect of a gubernatorial endorsement on three recent ballot measures. We find that identifying the governor as a proponent of a particular measure has a significant effect on respondents' support for only one of the three ballot…
Choosing Not to Choose in Comparative Policy Research Design: The Case of the Research Network on Gender, Politics, and the State
This research note presents the research design for an in ‐progress comparative study on women's policy offices being conducted by the Research Network on Gender. Politics. and the State. The goal of this article is to examine how this project has been integrating a combined approach into its core research design. It argues that rather than conceptualizing the research design enterprise in terms of a zero‐sum game, where a decision to use either …
The Rule, Not the Exception: One-Party Monopolies in the American States
Thousands of studies have examined party competition in the American states, finding significant consequences for voter turnout, policy adoptions, and more. Long-term patterns of party control have received less attention. Here, we reexamine the operationalization of party competition. We then update Klarner’s state partisan balance data to include state house and senate composition and gubernatorial vote share since the 1930s, adding—in light of…
Political Culture, Public Opinion, and Policy (Non)Diffusion: The Case of Gay‐ and Lesbian‐Related Issues in Arkansas
Objectives. Just after three in four Arkansas voters endorsed a state constitutional amendment barring state recognition of same‐sex marriages, a comprehensive state‐level survey allowed a closer look into the attitudes of Arkansans on a variety of gay‐ and lesbian‐related issues. When placed in the context of Arkansas's political culture and ideological patters, this serves as a case study of the relationship between public opinion, specific pol…
The Clinton Effect? The (Non)Impact of a High‐Profile Candidate on Gender Stereotypes
Objectives Does the presence of a particular high‐profile female politician influence how citizens think about women in politics generally? Methods We randomly assigned respondents in four statewide polls either to receive a cue about Hillary Clinton followed by a battery of questions about women in politics generally, or to hear only the women in politics battery. Results Drawing on scholarship from social psychology about the role of exemplars …
Pursuing the Early Voter: Does the Early Bird Get the Worm
In the 2004 election, 30 states offered the option to vote before Election Day with no excuse (National Conference of State Legislators, 2004 National Conference of State Legislatures . ( 2004 ). Absentee and early voting, updated October 27, 2004. Available from http://www.ncsl.org/programs/legman/elect/absentearly.htm. Accessed 13 January 2005 . [Google Scholar]), up from 26 in 2002. For parties, interest groups, and campaigns that have begun e…
Does more matter? Critical mass and legislative influence
Scholars are divided on whether increased group size helps or hurts political minorities. We test the concept of “critical mass” using a different kind of long-time minority: pre-realignment Republicans in the American South. In Arkansas, after a century of token status, the minority party doubled its numbers in the late 1990s, held steady through the 2000s, then surged to a super majority. This stair-stepped transformation opened a unique window…
The State of State Polls: Old Challenges, New Opportunities
The prospect of a full complement of regularly-conducted, publicly-released state-level polls has both excited and eluded scholars of state politics and public opinion for decades. Here, we examine the current status of state-level polling in the U.S. Specifically, we rely on interviews with 51 state poll directors to investigate the location, frequency, scope, budget, purpose, content, and perceived policy impact of such projects. We also explor…
In defense of the lowly scorecard: What legislator ratings can tell us about interest groups
Leave the Rascals In? Explaining the Poor Prospects of Term Limit Extensions
Voters in nearly half the states adopted term limits between 1990 and 2000, and recent efforts to repeal or extend these caps generally have suffered sound defeats. Past research demonstrates that while robust majorities approved of limiting the terms of elected officials, support was strongest among government cynics and minority-party identifiers. Here, we investigate the impact of trust and partisanship on attitudes toward a 2004 Arkansas prop…
Provincialism, Personalism, and Politics: Campaign Spending and the 2002 U.S. Senate Race in Arkansas
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
Sex, Age, and the Implementation of the Motor Voter Act: The 1996 Presidential Election
Objective . Among the existing studies of political participation, few discuss differences between men and women. Of those published, most have focused upon substantive policy preferences, perhaps noting women's newly dominant electoral presence but not probing its characteristics or limits. In this analysis we build on the work of Schlozman, Burns, and Verba (1994) by examining the compound effects of closing dates, state National Voter Registra…
Choosing Not to Choose in Comparative Policy Research Design: The Case of the Research Network on Gender, Politics, and the State
This research note presents the research design for an in ‐progress comparative study on women's policy offices being conducted by the Research Network on Gender. Politics. and the State. The goal of this article is to examine how this project has been integrating a combined approach into its core research design. It argues that rather than conceptualizing the research design enterprise in terms of a zero‐sum game, where a decision to use either …
"What Women Wanted": Arkansas Women's Commissions and the ERA
AN IMPORTANT BUT OFTEN OVERLOOKED ELEMENT of women's movements of late twentieth century is women's commission. Broadly defined as a government-appointed task force charged with studying improving status of first such unit established in United States was a Kennedy administration initiative: President's Commission on Status of Women (PCSW).1 Chaired by former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, PCSW was officially in operation from 1961 to 1963 in 1965…
Family Leave Policies: Examining Choice and Contingency in Industrialized Nations
tigations of the conditions likely to spur the adoption of advanced family leave policies. In this article, I systematically examine-in the form of three detailed case studies-factors that may contribute to cross-national variations in the quality of leave benefits. The central questions I explore are: 1) in what ways do the leave policies of industrialized nation states vary; and 2) what factors best explain such variation? I first explain the t…
Sex, Age, and the Implementation of the Motor Voter Act: The 1996 Presidential Election
Objective . Among the existing studies of political participation, few discuss differences between men and women. Of those published, most have focused upon substantive policy preferences, perhaps noting women's newly dominant electoral presence but not probing its characteristics or limits. In this analysis we build on the work of Schlozman, Burns, and Verba (1994) by examining the compound effects of closing dates, state National Voter Registra…
Provincialism, Personalism, and Politics: Campaign Spending and the 2002 U.S. Senate Race in Arkansas
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
The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir
The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town: A Memoir. By Dale Bumpers. (2003; Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004. Pp. 296. Illustrations, appendix. $19.95, paper.) The Arkansas so ably revealed in this memoir is too little known those living outside its borders and too little examined by those within. Sensitively situated against a backdrop of segregation, the Great Depression, World War II, and the profound social changes brought about b…
O Other, Where Art Thou? Support for Multiparty Politics in the United States
Objective. We test hypotheses about support for multiparty politics in the United States. We expect that individual‐level attitudes and state‐level partisan context determine who supports having more parties. Methods. Survey data are used to model attitudes about having additional parties to challenge Democrats and Republicans. Results. Self‐identified partisans are opposed to additional parties, but independents who “lean” toward a major party a…
“The Great Negro State of the Country?”: Black Legislators in Arkansas: 1973-2000
Scholarship on African American political participation—like research on political participation generally—has focused largely on the national-level preferences of citizens and policy makers. Considerably less attention has been paid to such dynamics in the American states. This article provides an introduction to Black legislative activity in the State of Arkansas with an eye on descriptive and substantive representation issues. Specifically, th…
Pursuing the Early Voter: Does the Early Bird Get the Worm
In the 2004 election, 30 states offered the option to vote before Election Day with no excuse (National Conference of State Legislators, 2004 National Conference of State Legislatures . ( 2004 ). Absentee and early voting, updated October 27, 2004. Available from http://www.ncsl.org/programs/legman/elect/absentearly.htm. Accessed 13 January 2005 . [Google Scholar]), up from 26 in 2002. For parties, interest groups, and campaigns that have begun e…
The State of State Polls: Old Challenges, New Opportunities
The prospect of a full complement of regularly-conducted, publicly-released state-level polls has both excited and eluded scholars of state politics and public opinion for decades. Here, we examine the current status of state-level polling in the U.S. Specifically, we rely on interviews with 51 state poll directors to investigate the location, frequency, scope, budget, purpose, content, and perceived policy impact of such projects. We also explor…
Leave the Rascals In? Explaining the Poor Prospects of Term Limit Extensions
Voters in nearly half the states adopted term limits between 1990 and 2000, and recent efforts to repeal or extend these caps generally have suffered sound defeats. Past research demonstrates that while robust majorities approved of limiting the terms of elected officials, support was strongest among government cynics and minority-party identifiers. Here, we investigate the impact of trust and partisanship on attitudes toward a 2004 Arkansas prop…
Mobilizing the Seldom Voter: Campaign Contact and Effects in High-Profile Elections
The Impact of Contact with Gay and Lesbian Couples on Attitudes about Gays/Lesbians and Gay‐Related Policies
Contact with individual lesbians and gay men leads to more positive evaluations of the group and more support for pro‐LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) public policies. Increasingly, gay rights activists are making “gay families” central to their communications to the public about gay issues and policies. This prompts a new question in the area of contact theory: does contact with same‐sex couples have a different impact on attitudes…
Political Culture, Public Opinion, and Policy (Non)Diffusion: The Case of Gay‐ and Lesbian‐Related Issues in Arkansas
Objectives. Just after three in four Arkansas voters endorsed a state constitutional amendment barring state recognition of same‐sex marriages, a comprehensive state‐level survey allowed a closer look into the attitudes of Arkansans on a variety of gay‐ and lesbian‐related issues. When placed in the context of Arkansas's political culture and ideological patters, this serves as a case study of the relationship between public opinion, specific pol…
The Impact of Petition Signing on Voter Turnout
In defense of the lowly scorecard: What legislator ratings can tell us about interest groups
Gubernatorial Endorsements and Ballot Measure Approval
Voters often make decisions on ballot measures with limited information. Research shows, however, that elite endorsements can help voters overcome their information deficiencies. Using survey experiments, we evaluate the effect of a gubernatorial endorsement on three recent ballot measures. We find that identifying the governor as a proponent of a particular measure has a significant effect on respondents' support for only one of the three ballot…
The Clinton Effect? The (Non)Impact of a High‐Profile Candidate on Gender Stereotypes
Objectives Does the presence of a particular high‐profile female politician influence how citizens think about women in politics generally? Methods We randomly assigned respondents in four statewide polls either to receive a cue about Hillary Clinton followed by a battery of questions about women in politics generally, or to hear only the women in politics battery. Results Drawing on scholarship from social psychology about the role of exemplars …
Readings in Arkansas Politics and Government
Direct Democracy, Educative Effects, and the (Mis)Measurement of Ballot Measure Awareness
The inconsequence of negative statehouse evaluations on ballot measures: Evidence from survey experiments
The Rule, Not the Exception: One-Party Monopolies in the American States
Thousands of studies have examined party competition in the American states, finding significant consequences for voter turnout, policy adoptions, and more. Long-term patterns of party control have received less attention. Here, we reexamine the operationalization of party competition. We then update Klarner’s state partisan balance data to include state house and senate composition and gubernatorial vote share since the 1930s, adding—in light of…
Does more matter? Critical mass and legislative influence
Scholars are divided on whether increased group size helps or hurts political minorities. We test the concept of “critical mass” using a different kind of long-time minority: pre-realignment Republicans in the American South. In Arkansas, after a century of token status, the minority party doubled its numbers in the late 1990s, held steady through the 2000s, then surged to a super majority. This stair-stepped transformation opened a unique window…
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