Some Policy Consequences of the Long Revolution and Bifactional Rivalry in Louisiana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6231760 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Edward T Jennings (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 225 |
| Publication date | 1977-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2110493 |
| OpenAlex | W2323504183 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article develops and tests propositions about the relationship between certain aspects of political competition and public policy in the American states. Although much of the previous state politics literature has produced mixed results in testing some hypotheses derived from the writings of V. 0. Key, this article demonstrates that the cases of Louisiana and Virginia offer a qualifled confirmation of much of Key's work. The findings presented in this paper suggest that research directed at the analysis of interstate variation in public policy should not be focused on the closeness of electoral competition per se; rather, it should seek to analyze if, and how, political competition is organized along lines of socio-economic cleavage. Most studies of the relationship between party politics and public policy in the American states focus on the closeness of elections and sharing of power in competitive party situations. One possibility generally unexplored is that other dimensions of electoral competition and organization may be more important for policy change than the closeness of inter-party competition. In addition, the literature on inter-party competition normally overlooks the potential relationship between public policy and forms of electoral competition other than that between parties. Tlhis article examines the relationship between public policy and the nature of competitive rivalry in the electoral process. In particular, it explores the consequences of bifactional rivalry for several kinds of expenditure policy in Louisiana. The analysis is concerned not only with the existence of organized competition in a one-party setting, but also with differences in the electoral bases of support, rhetoric, and policy orientations of competing factions. The following description of Louisiana's political system draws upon the work of several scholars who have described and analyzed Huey Long's rise to power and the subsequent bifactional organization of politics in Louisiana
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 1999 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |