Representation in Municipal Government
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3504875 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Tausanovitch (0000-0003-3401-3427, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), Carole Warshaw (0000-0002-2769-4028, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author), Christopher Warshaw |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 605-641 |
| Publication date | 2014-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055414000318 |
| OpenAlex | W2158071582 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 231 |
| References cited | 66 |
Municipal governments play a vital role in American democracy, as well as in governments around the world. Despite this, little is known about the degree to which cities are responsive to the views of their citizens. In the past, the unavailability of data on the policy preferences of citizens at the municipal level has limited scholars' ability to study the responsiveness of municipal government. We overcome this problem by using recent advances in opinion estimation to measure the mean policy conservatism in every U.S. city and town with a population above 20,000 people. Despite the supposition in the literature that municipal politics are non-ideological, we find that the policies enacted by cities across a range of policy areas correspond with the liberal-conservative positions of their citizens on national policy issues. In addition, we consider the influence of institutions, such as the presence of an elected mayor, the popular initiative, partisan elections, term limits, and at-large elections. Our results show that these institutions have little consistent impact on policy responsiveness in municipal government. These results demonstrate a robust role for citizen policy preferences in determining municipal policy outcomes, but cast doubt on the hypothesis that simple institutional reforms enhance responsiveness in municipal governments
Conservatism · Democracy · Economics · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Public economics · Public policy · Representation (politics · Sociology · Unavailability · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration
Signs of Fissures? Business Influence, Local Political Orientation, and U.S. Communities’ Climate Policy
Municipal Issue Publics
Representation in Municipal Government
Voters Support and Are Willing to Pay for Local Climate Adaptation Policies
Crosscurrents in Flood Planning and Insurance Discounts
Causality in Policy Studies
Storefront Campaigning
Local Political Institutions and First-Mover Policy Responses to Covid-19
Partisan Versus Nonpartisan School Board Elections
On policy responsiveness
Liberals and Housing
Influence of social media on fear of sharks, perceptions of intentionality associated with shark bites, and shark management preferences
Deciding on justice
Patterns in environmental priorities revealed through government open data portals
Do water board elections matter for utility performance
Partisanship within city limits
District versus at-large voting
Ideology, intergovernmental transfers, and public health spending
The efficacy of measuring judicial ideal points
Do local civil servants capture intergovernmental transfers? The different wage determinants between the public and private sector
Transferências intergovernamentais são capturadas pelos servidores municipais? Os determinantes da diferença salarial entre o setor público e o setor privado
Tracking plan implementation using elected officials’ social media communications and votes
Dissecting Taste Distinction
Unequal Responsiveness in City Service Delivery
Locally Controlled Minimum Wages Leapfrog Public Preferences
Hometown Inequality
The Effects of Ranked Choice Voting on Substantive Representation
Segregation by Design
Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing Health Services for People Without Documentation Status in an Anti-Immigrant Era
Chapter 7. Paths to Carbon Neutrality
“Elite but not elitist”
Warding off Development
Start Spreading the Views
Why Cities Customize National Policy During Implementation
Improving Small-Area Estimates of Public Opinion by Calibrating to Known Population Quantities
The Quantitative Research on Government Budgeting
Diaspora-management policies of modern ‘city-states’
Does studying in Hong Kong affect the ideological preferences of Chinese mainland undergraduates
Policies for Autonomy
Post-Conflict Cooperation in Multi-Ethnic Local communities of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Public Support for Disaster Risk Reduction
Public perceptions of local influence
Interest groups, local politics, and police unions
Interest groups in US local politics
The effect of place on voting behavior
The Majority-Party Disadvantage
Contextual responsiveness in U.S. local government climate policy
Labor’s Capital
City Power in the Age of Silicon Valley
Concede or Resist? Experimental Evidence on How Partisanship Shapes Local Officials’ Responses to Preemption
Party Line or Bottom Line? Decision-Making in Local Contexts
Partisan Schools
Mind the (Participation) Gap
Improving Subnational Opinion Estimation from Cluster-Sampled Polls
Dyadic representation in parliamentary democracy in Japan
Institutional dependencies shape adaptation pathways for local service providers
Do squeaky wheels get the grease? Understanding when and how municipalities respond to online requests
The representative system
The Netherlands Local Manifesto Project. Infrastructure for studying local party politics
Diaspora, deliberation and democracy
Minding the time gap
Social and Political Pillars of Police Diversity
How Municipalities Exploit Their De Facto Power to Manage Metropolitan Planning Through Mutual Deference
How Do Crises Impact Policy Debates? The shifting national landscape of discourse on rental housing in the USA
Planning for Homelessness
Are Canadian Municipal Politics Ideological? Experimental Evidence from Canadian Municipal Officials
Elections and Representation in American Municipal Administration
Mobility and the making of the neoliberal “creative city”
Devotion at Sub-National Level
Partisanship and the Gender Pay Gap in Local Government
Rhetorical Framing in Planning
Urban representation through deliberation
The structure of municipal voting in Vancouver
Partisan and Ideological Bias Among the Attentive Public
Constituent Approval, Electoral Marginality, and Congressional Support for the President
The Polarizing Effect of the Stimulus
National or sub-national parties
The Structure of City Action
When Collaboration Is Risky Business
Explaining Burden Reduction in Municipal Service Delivery
Talking about density
Are municipal politicians ideological moderates
Flypaper effect and partisanship theories best explain municipal financial performance in Latin America
The limits of criminal justice reform
Community Diversity and Social Media Use in Local Governments
The Efficiency-Equity Trade-off in a Federal System
Congruence” and “Responsiveness” in the study of representation
Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment
Politics in affordable housing provision
What explains local policy cleavages? Examining the policy preferences of public officials at the municipal level
Are retrospective evaluations of local governments moderated by perceptions of influence
Following neighbors or regional leaders? Unpacking the effect of geographic proximity in local climate policy diffusion
Political Divisions in Large Cities
How do municipal mayors and councillors communicate with other levels of government? Evidence from a multi‐level survey of Canadian elected officials
Schoolhouse Democracy
How Partisan Are U.S. Local Elections? Evidence from 2020 Cast Vote Records
What Makes a ‘Good’ Municipal Elected Official? Aspirations and Ideals of Municipal Elected Women and Men in Canada
Ideology and Vote Choice in U.S. Mayoral Elections
Beyond the mean
Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions
The politics of efficiency
Political Monopolies in American Cities
City Limits
America's Ailing Cities
Official Leadership in the City
Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy
Term Limits in State Legislatures
An economic theory of democracy
Term Limits and the Dismantling of State Legislative Professionalism
Quiet Revolution in the South
American Babylon
Popular Control of Public Policy
County Limits
Overcoming City Limits
A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects
Measuring District-Level Partisanship with Implications for the Analysis of U.S. Elections
Peasants or Bankers? The American Electorate and the U.S. Economy
Voting for Minority Candidates in Multiracial/Multiethnic Communities
Nested Levels of Institutions
Structural Change And Fiscal Flows
How Should We Measure District-Level Public Opinion on Individual Issues
Election Timing and the Electoral Influence of Interest Groups
A Wider Race? Interstate Competition across Health and Welfare Programs
Ideological Adaptation? The Survival Instinct of Threatened Legislators
Problems with a Methodology Used to Evaluate the Voter Initiative
The Impact of At-Large Elections on the Representation of Blacks and Hispanics
Measuring Constituent Policy Preferences in Congress, State Legislatures, and Cities
Does Changing Mayors Matter
Partisan Labels and Democratic Accountability
Does Federalism Weaken Democratic Representation in the United States
Black Mayors/White Mayors
A Comparative Anatomy of Urban Social Conflict
Tearns Without Uniforms
Teams without Uniforms
Policy representation of constituency interests
Giving Order to Districts
Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference
Bayesian Multilevel Estimation with Poststratification
The Effects of Mayoral Power on Urban Fiscal Policy
The Effects of Term Limits on State Legislatures
Politics, Politicalscience,andurbangovernance
Representation and Accountability in Cities
Local Institutions and the Politics of Urban Growth
Deciding to Provide
The Context Matters
Measuring Representation
When Mayors Matter
The Democratic Deficit in the States
How Should We Estimate Public Opinion in The States
Measuring Representation
Who or What Governs
Participation, Political Structure, and Concurrence
Dynamic Representation
The Statistical Analysis of Roll Call Data
Out of Step, Out of Office
| Unique citing works | 231 |
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| Citations per year | 21 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2026 (12) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 226 |