Reform and Representation
A New Method Applied to Recent Electoral Changes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6342186 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thad Kousser (0000-0002-5489-5837, Columbia University), Jane H Phillips (0000-0003-4315-6622, Columbia University), Justin Phillips, Boris Shor (0000-0002-4983-0166, Columbia University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 809-827 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Science Research and Methods (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-8470 • E-ISSN: 2049-8489 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/psrm.2016.43 |
| OpenAlex | W3126040964 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 59 |
Can electoral reforms such as an independent redistricting commission and the top-two primary create conditions that lead to better legislative representation? We explore this question by presenting a new method for measuring a key indicator of representation—the congruence between a legislator’s ideological position and the average position of her district’s voters. Our novel approach combines two methods: the joint classification of voters and political candidates on the same ideological scale, along with multilevel regression and post-stratification to estimate the position of the average voter across many districts in multiple elections. After validating our approach, we use it to study the recent impact of reforms in California, showing that they did not bring their hoped-for effects
Commission · Congruence (geometry · Democracy · Econometrics · Economics · Ideology · Legislator · Legislature · Normative · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Proportional representation · Public economics · Redistricting · Representation (politics · Representativeness heuristic · Statistics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Game Theory and Voting Systems · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Mathematics · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Psychology
Polarization
Redistricting Reforms Reduce Gerrymandering by Constraining Partisan Actors
The Effects of Ranked Choice Voting on Substantive Representation
Congruence” and “Responsiveness” in the study of representation
Sidestepping primary reform
Do Open Primaries Improve Representation? An Experimental Test of California's 2012 Top‐Two Primary
Demonstrating the (in) effectiveness of electoral reforms
Campaign spending and the top-two primary
When Do Legislators Represent Their Constituents? Evidence from Roll-Call and Referendum Votes
Extreme districts, moderate winners
Electoral Innovation and the Alaska System
Crashing the party
Do Redistricting Commissions Avoid Partisan Gerrymanders
The Impact of Judicial Selection Method on State Supreme Court Justice Ideology
Ideology and Spatial Voting in American Elections
A Unified Theory of Voting
Primary Election Systems and Representation
An economic theory of democracy
Electoral Engineering
Can Learning Constituency Opinion Affect How Legislators Vote? Results from a Field Experiment
Beyond the Median
Recovering a Basic Space From a Set of Issue Scales
Proximity voting in the 2010 U.S. House elections
Mass Political Attitudes and the Survey Response
Comparing Interest Group Scores across Time and Chambers
Candidate Valence and Ideological Positions in U.S. House Elections
How Should We Measure District-Level Public Opinion on Individual Issues
Partisan Bias, Political Information and Spatial Voting in the 2008 Presidential Election
Representation in Congress
Problems with a Methodology Used to Evaluate the Voter Initiative
Measuring Constituent Policy Preferences in Congress, State Legislatures, and Cities
Party Power or Preferences? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from American State Legislatures
The Polarization of American Politics
More a Molehill than a Mountain
A Promise Fulfilled? Open Primaries and Representation
Candidates Matter
Electoral Institutions and Legislative Behavior
Bayesian Multilevel Estimation with Poststratification
The Effects of Party and Preferences on Congressional Roll-Call Voting
A Bridge to Somewhere
The Puzzle of Representation
Do Open Primaries Improve Representation? An Experimental Test of California's 2012 Top‐Two Primary
Economics, Issues and the Perot Candidacy
Mapping the Ideological Marketplace
Manufactured Responsiveness
Measuring Representation
The Democratic Deficit in the States
How Should We Estimate Public Opinion in The States
Turnout and Representation
It Takes an Outsider
A Model of Candidate Location When One Candidate Has a Valence Advantage
Candidate Equilibrium and the Behavioral Model of the Vote
Constituency Influence in Congress
Rethinking Representation
The Role of the Representative
Leapfrog Representation and Extremism
The Strength of Issues
Gay Rights in the States
Spatial Voting in the 2004 Presidential Election
Projection and the Perception of Candidates' Issue Positions
The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |