James E Monogan
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 315190 |
|---|---|
| NOME | James E Monogan |
| PRENOMES | James E |
| SOBRENOME | Monogan |
| ASSINATURA | MONOGAN J E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1968-6052 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 183 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Anxious Voters in the 2016 U.S. Election
The democratic deficit on salient issues
We update past work on the democratic deficit, defined as incongruence between majority public preference and public policy in the American states. We reconsider public opinion and state policy on seven issues related to immigration and health questions. Using original data from the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey as well as new data on state policy and other predictors, we show that these seven issues have distinct qualities from …
Studying Immigrant Policy One Law at a Time
This article shows that, in the study of immigrant integration policy in the U.S. states, it is critical to report data and coding decisions for individual laws. This analysis uses an updated and public database of law‐level decisions, which includes 2,703 legislative actions recorded by the National Conference of State Legislatures from 2005 to 2016. These data are used to estimate models of aggregate state policy activity in a variety of ways: …
The 50 American States in Space and Time
Spatial conditionally autoregressive (CAR) models in a hierarchical Bayesian framework can be informative for understanding state politics, or any similar population of border-defined observations. This article explains how a hierarchical CAR model is specified and estimated and then uses Monte Carlo analyses to show when the CAR model offers efficiency gains. We apply this model to data structures common to state politics: A cross-sectional exam…
Income inequality and the growth of redistributive spending in the United States (US) states
Prominent public policy models have hypothesised that rising income inequality will lead to more redistributive spending. Subsequent theoretical advancements and empirical research often failed to find a positive relationship between inequality and redistributive spending, however. Over the last few decades both income inequality and redistributive spending have been growing in the United States states. In this work, we consider whether temporal …
Contagious Republicanism in Louisiana, 1966-2014
A Review of Textbooks for Teaching Undergraduate Methods
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Immigration Politics and Partisan Realignment
This article demonstrates how the party identification of various demographic groups in California and Texas changed in response to the gubernatorial campaigns of Pete Wilson and George W. Bush. Using aggregated time series of Field Poll, Texas Poll, and Gallup data, difference-in-differences results show that Wilson's embrace of Proposition 187 was followed by significant Hispanic movement toward the Democratic Party in California. Time series a…
Gone with the Wind
In federal systems, both state governments and firms have incentives to strategically locate polluting facilities where the environmental and health consequences will be borne as much as possible by residents of other jurisdictions. We analyze air polluter location in the United States using a spatial point pattern model, which models where events occur in latitude and longitude. Our analyses indicate that major air polluters are significantly mo…
Insuring hedged bets with lobbying
The consequences of religious strictness for political participation
Contemporary media portray highly religious Americans as active political conservatives. This article examines how church strictness influences political participation by churchgoers. We argue that church strictness influences aspects of a person's life that are known to influence political participation, so assessing the effect of religion on participation requires considering intermediate factors. To evaluate our theory, we analyze the 2006 Por…
Measuring State and District Ideology with Spatial Realignment
We develop a new approach for modeling public sentiment by micro-level geographic region based on Bayesian hierarchical spatial modeling. Recent production of detailed geospatial political data means that modeling and measurement lag behind available information. The output of the models gives not only nuanced regional differences and relationships between states, but more robust state-level aggregations that update past research on measuring con…
Confirmation Wars, Legislative Time, and Collateral Damage
Presidents often see a Supreme Court nomination as an opportunity to leave a lasting mark on policy. Recent studies speculate that focusing on Supreme Court nominees affects presidential success beyond the confirmation process, but this has not been established systematically. We develop and test a hypothesis stating that presidents who get into a battle to promote a controversial Supreme Court nominee will see delays and failures in their effort…
Analysing Drivers of Low Carbon Transitions in Post-Fukushima Japan
The 11 March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will forever be remembered as a once-in-a-lifetime tragedy. The changes to Japan's energy system following Fukushima may nonetheless leave future generations with a more sustainable legacy. A growing body of literature hypothesizes that transitions like this one have the potential to reshape Japan's energy system due to (1) an exogenous shock which (2) enables policy reforms that (3) gain momen…
The 2011 Debt-Ceiling Controversy and the 2012 US House Elections
This article considers how a key legislative vote—that is, the August 2011 vote to raise the federal debt ceiling—influenced the 2012 elections for the US House of Representatives. Two outcomes are analyzed: (1) the incumbents’ ability to retain their seats through the 2012 general election, and (2) their share of the two-party vote for members who faced a general-election competitor. In developing this study, the research design was registered a…
Research Preregistration in Political Science
This article describes the current debate on the practice of preregistration in political science—that is, publicly releasing a research design before observing outcome data. The case in favor of preregistration maintains that it can restrain four potential causes of publication bias, clearly distinguish deductive and inductive studies, add transparency regarding a researcher’s motivation, and liberate researchers who may be pressured to find spe…
Modeling time-series count data
Medicaid Politics
Medicaid Politics focuses on the developments of Medicaid—the federal program to provide health care to low-income Americans—during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Frank Thompson describes the attempts during this time frame to fundamentally scale back the Medicaid program, the relation between governors and federal policymakers in changing policy, and the extensive use of waivers to allow states to create n…
A Case for Registering Studies of Political Outcomes
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Strategic party placement with a dynamic electorate
This article expands upon formal research on elections by considering competition in a dynamic environment of multiple elections. The key assumptions are that the ideology of the electorate is changing in a known way, parties cannot change their position from one election to the next, and one party has a non-ideological advantage in the first election. A deterministic version of this game shows that with a large valence advantage for one party, b…
The politics of immigrant policy in the 50 US states, 2005-2011
This article asks what shaped immigrant policy in the 50 states between 2005 and 2011. Theoretically, politicians are influenced by electoral considerations as they craft laws. Law-makers consider both current public opinion and how the electorate is likely to change, at least in the near future. Empirically, the article analyses an original dataset on immigrant-related laws enacted by the states with a Bayesian spatial conditionally autoregressi…
Incrementing Toward Nowhere
Despite successful adoption of other health care reforms, the states collectively have been no more successful than the federal government in achieving universal coverage. Do the same forces stopping reform at the national level also restrict states? Are the incremental steps that states have taken toward coverage likely to lead to real reform? Analysis of state activity from 1988 to 2002 shows that where Democrats are in charge and where their a…
The Construction of Interest Communities
Two theories are now used to explain the size and composition of interest communities: Olson's (1965, 1982) bottom-up collective action model and Gray and Lowery's top-down ESA model. Unfortunately, one of the common ways of testing these models—aggregate-level analyses of interest populations—cannot easily distinguish between them. Empirical evidence supporting one model will almost inevitably support the other. We explain why this is so, illust…
The politics of immigrant policy in the 50 US states, 2005-2011
This article asks what shaped immigrant policy in the 50 states between 2005 and 2011. Theoretically, politicians are influenced by electoral considerations as they craft laws. Law-makers consider both current public opinion and how the electorate is likely to change, at least in the near future. Empirically, the article analyses an original dataset on immigrant-related laws enacted by the states with a Bayesian spatial conditionally autoregressi…
A Case for Registering Studies of Political Outcomes
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
Gone with the Wind
In federal systems, both state governments and firms have incentives to strategically locate polluting facilities where the environmental and health consequences will be borne as much as possible by residents of other jurisdictions. We analyze air polluter location in the United States using a spatial point pattern model, which models where events occur in latitude and longitude. Our analyses indicate that major air polluters are significantly mo…
Incrementing Toward Nowhere
Despite successful adoption of other health care reforms, the states collectively have been no more successful than the federal government in achieving universal coverage. Do the same forces stopping reform at the national level also restrict states? Are the incremental steps that states have taken toward coverage likely to lead to real reform? Analysis of state activity from 1988 to 2002 shows that where Democrats are in charge and where their a…
The Construction of Interest Communities
Two theories are now used to explain the size and composition of interest communities: Olson's (1965, 1982) bottom-up collective action model and Gray and Lowery's top-down ESA model. Unfortunately, one of the common ways of testing these models—aggregate-level analyses of interest populations—cannot easily distinguish between them. Empirical evidence supporting one model will almost inevitably support the other. We explain why this is so, illust…
Studying Immigrant Policy One Law at a Time
This article shows that, in the study of immigrant integration policy in the U.S. states, it is critical to report data and coding decisions for individual laws. This analysis uses an updated and public database of law‐level decisions, which includes 2,703 legislative actions recorded by the National Conference of State Legislatures from 2005 to 2016. These data are used to estimate models of aggregate state policy activity in a variety of ways: …
Confirmation Wars, Legislative Time, and Collateral Damage
Presidents often see a Supreme Court nomination as an opportunity to leave a lasting mark on policy. Recent studies speculate that focusing on Supreme Court nominees affects presidential success beyond the confirmation process, but this has not been established systematically. We develop and test a hypothesis stating that presidents who get into a battle to promote a controversial Supreme Court nominee will see delays and failures in their effort…
Measuring State and District Ideology with Spatial Realignment
We develop a new approach for modeling public sentiment by micro-level geographic region based on Bayesian hierarchical spatial modeling. Recent production of detailed geospatial political data means that modeling and measurement lag behind available information. The output of the models gives not only nuanced regional differences and relationships between states, but more robust state-level aggregations that update past research on measuring con…
Research Preregistration in Political Science
This article describes the current debate on the practice of preregistration in political science—that is, publicly releasing a research design before observing outcome data. The case in favor of preregistration maintains that it can restrain four potential causes of publication bias, clearly distinguish deductive and inductive studies, add transparency regarding a researcher’s motivation, and liberate researchers who may be pressured to find spe…
Income inequality and the growth of redistributive spending in the United States (US) states
Prominent public policy models have hypothesised that rising income inequality will lead to more redistributive spending. Subsequent theoretical advancements and empirical research often failed to find a positive relationship between inequality and redistributive spending, however. Over the last few decades both income inequality and redistributive spending have been growing in the United States states. In this work, we consider whether temporal …
Immigration Politics and Partisan Realignment
This article demonstrates how the party identification of various demographic groups in California and Texas changed in response to the gubernatorial campaigns of Pete Wilson and George W. Bush. Using aggregated time series of Field Poll, Texas Poll, and Gallup data, difference-in-differences results show that Wilson's embrace of Proposition 187 was followed by significant Hispanic movement toward the Democratic Party in California. Time series a…
Modeling time-series count data
The democratic deficit on salient issues
We update past work on the democratic deficit, defined as incongruence between majority public preference and public policy in the American states. We reconsider public opinion and state policy on seven issues related to immigration and health questions. Using original data from the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey as well as new data on state policy and other predictors, we show that these seven issues have distinct qualities from …
Strategic party placement with a dynamic electorate
This article expands upon formal research on elections by considering competition in a dynamic environment of multiple elections. The key assumptions are that the ideology of the electorate is changing in a known way, parties cannot change their position from one election to the next, and one party has a non-ideological advantage in the first election. A deterministic version of this game shows that with a large valence advantage for one party, b…
Anxious Voters in the 2016 U.S. Election
Analysing Drivers of Low Carbon Transitions in Post-Fukushima Japan
The 11 March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will forever be remembered as a once-in-a-lifetime tragedy. The changes to Japan's energy system following Fukushima may nonetheless leave future generations with a more sustainable legacy. A growing body of literature hypothesizes that transitions like this one have the potential to reshape Japan's energy system due to (1) an exogenous shock which (2) enables policy reforms that (3) gain momen…
The Construction of Interest Communities
Two theories are now used to explain the size and composition of interest communities: Olson's (1965, 1982) bottom-up collective action model and Gray and Lowery's top-down ESA model. Unfortunately, one of the common ways of testing these models—aggregate-level analyses of interest populations—cannot easily distinguish between them. Empirical evidence supporting one model will almost inevitably support the other. We explain why this is so, illust…
Incrementing Toward Nowhere
Despite successful adoption of other health care reforms, the states collectively have been no more successful than the federal government in achieving universal coverage. Do the same forces stopping reform at the national level also restrict states? Are the incremental steps that states have taken toward coverage likely to lead to real reform? Analysis of state activity from 1988 to 2002 shows that where Democrats are in charge and where their a…
Medicaid Politics
Medicaid Politics focuses on the developments of Medicaid—the federal program to provide health care to low-income Americans—during the administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama. Frank Thompson describes the attempts during this time frame to fundamentally scale back the Medicaid program, the relation between governors and federal policymakers in changing policy, and the extensive use of waivers to allow states to create n…
A Case for Registering Studies of Political Outcomes
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
Strategic party placement with a dynamic electorate
This article expands upon formal research on elections by considering competition in a dynamic environment of multiple elections. The key assumptions are that the ideology of the electorate is changing in a known way, parties cannot change their position from one election to the next, and one party has a non-ideological advantage in the first election. A deterministic version of this game shows that with a large valence advantage for one party, b…
The politics of immigrant policy in the 50 US states, 2005-2011
This article asks what shaped immigrant policy in the 50 states between 2005 and 2011. Theoretically, politicians are influenced by electoral considerations as they craft laws. Law-makers consider both current public opinion and how the electorate is likely to change, at least in the near future. Empirically, the article analyses an original dataset on immigrant-related laws enacted by the states with a Bayesian spatial conditionally autoregressi…
Modeling time-series count data
Analysing Drivers of Low Carbon Transitions in Post-Fukushima Japan
The 11 March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will forever be remembered as a once-in-a-lifetime tragedy. The changes to Japan's energy system following Fukushima may nonetheless leave future generations with a more sustainable legacy. A growing body of literature hypothesizes that transitions like this one have the potential to reshape Japan's energy system due to (1) an exogenous shock which (2) enables policy reforms that (3) gain momen…
The 2011 Debt-Ceiling Controversy and the 2012 US House Elections
This article considers how a key legislative vote—that is, the August 2011 vote to raise the federal debt ceiling—influenced the 2012 elections for the US House of Representatives. Two outcomes are analyzed: (1) the incumbents’ ability to retain their seats through the 2012 general election, and (2) their share of the two-party vote for members who faced a general-election competitor. In developing this study, the research design was registered a…
Research Preregistration in Political Science
This article describes the current debate on the practice of preregistration in political science—that is, publicly releasing a research design before observing outcome data. The case in favor of preregistration maintains that it can restrain four potential causes of publication bias, clearly distinguish deductive and inductive studies, add transparency regarding a researcher’s motivation, and liberate researchers who may be pressured to find spe…
Insuring hedged bets with lobbying
The consequences of religious strictness for political participation
Contemporary media portray highly religious Americans as active political conservatives. This article examines how church strictness influences political participation by churchgoers. We argue that church strictness influences aspects of a person's life that are known to influence political participation, so assessing the effect of religion on participation requires considering intermediate factors. To evaluate our theory, we analyze the 2006 Por…
Measuring State and District Ideology with Spatial Realignment
We develop a new approach for modeling public sentiment by micro-level geographic region based on Bayesian hierarchical spatial modeling. Recent production of detailed geospatial political data means that modeling and measurement lag behind available information. The output of the models gives not only nuanced regional differences and relationships between states, but more robust state-level aggregations that update past research on measuring con…
Confirmation Wars, Legislative Time, and Collateral Damage
Presidents often see a Supreme Court nomination as an opportunity to leave a lasting mark on policy. Recent studies speculate that focusing on Supreme Court nominees affects presidential success beyond the confirmation process, but this has not been established systematically. We develop and test a hypothesis stating that presidents who get into a battle to promote a controversial Supreme Court nominee will see delays and failures in their effort…
A Review of Textbooks for Teaching Undergraduate Methods
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Immigration Politics and Partisan Realignment
This article demonstrates how the party identification of various demographic groups in California and Texas changed in response to the gubernatorial campaigns of Pete Wilson and George W. Bush. Using aggregated time series of Field Poll, Texas Poll, and Gallup data, difference-in-differences results show that Wilson's embrace of Proposition 187 was followed by significant Hispanic movement toward the Democratic Party in California. Time series a…
Gone with the Wind
In federal systems, both state governments and firms have incentives to strategically locate polluting facilities where the environmental and health consequences will be borne as much as possible by residents of other jurisdictions. We analyze air polluter location in the United States using a spatial point pattern model, which models where events occur in latitude and longitude. Our analyses indicate that major air polluters are significantly mo…
The 50 American States in Space and Time
Spatial conditionally autoregressive (CAR) models in a hierarchical Bayesian framework can be informative for understanding state politics, or any similar population of border-defined observations. This article explains how a hierarchical CAR model is specified and estimated and then uses Monte Carlo analyses to show when the CAR model offers efficiency gains. We apply this model to data structures common to state politics: A cross-sectional exam…
Income inequality and the growth of redistributive spending in the United States (US) states
Prominent public policy models have hypothesised that rising income inequality will lead to more redistributive spending. Subsequent theoretical advancements and empirical research often failed to find a positive relationship between inequality and redistributive spending, however. Over the last few decades both income inequality and redistributive spending have been growing in the United States states. In this work, we consider whether temporal …
Contagious Republicanism in Louisiana, 1966-2014
Studying Immigrant Policy One Law at a Time
This article shows that, in the study of immigrant integration policy in the U.S. states, it is critical to report data and coding decisions for individual laws. This analysis uses an updated and public database of law‐level decisions, which includes 2,703 legislative actions recorded by the National Conference of State Legislatures from 2005 to 2016. These data are used to estimate models of aggregate state policy activity in a variety of ways: …
Anxious Voters in the 2016 U.S. Election
The democratic deficit on salient issues
We update past work on the democratic deficit, defined as incongruence between majority public preference and public policy in the American states. We reconsider public opinion and state policy on seven issues related to immigration and health questions. Using original data from the 2014 Cooperative Congressional Election Survey as well as new data on state policy and other predictors, we show that these seven issues have distinct qualities from …
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