Federal Complexity and Perception of State Party Ideology in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6375593 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bradford H Bishop (Wheaton College) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 559-585 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Publius The Journal of Federalism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-5950 • E-ISSN: 1747-7107 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/publius/pjy011 |
| OpenAlex | W2804133130 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 31 |
Scholarship has established that ideological positions offered by state parties differ substantially from the national parties, and from one another. However, less attention has been devoted to investigating whether ordinary people are aware of the ideological distinctiveness of state parties. In particular, do people notice that their state party is ideologically different than the national party? In this article, I draw upon theories of low information rationality to develop an account of public reasoning about state parties. I analyze public opinion about state parties using an original survey fielded as part of the 2012 Cooperative Congressional Election Study. I find limited evidence that ordinary people are responsive to the actual legislative behavior of state parties. Instead, individuals' judgments about state party ideology may be rooted in inferences drawn from national-level politics. The findings support arguments that a complicated federal structure obscures the role of state-level actors in the policymaking process
Ideology · Law and economics · Legislature · Notice · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Perception · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Rationality · Scholarship · Sociology · State (computer science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Law · Public Administration · Social Psychology
Ideology and discontent
The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion
The Increasingly United States
The Rational Public
Why Parties?
The Reasoning Voter
Democracy for Realists
National Forces in State Legislative Elections
Accountability Payoffs in Federal Systems? Competing Logics and Evidence from Europe's Newest Federation
Dual Partisan Identification in the South
Multiple Party Identifiers and the Measurement of Party Identification
Parties in the Public Eye
Partisan and Ideological Polarization in the California Electorate
Federalism and Partisanship
Respublica Complicata
Apples to Oranges or Gala versus Golden Delicious
Comparing the Accuracy of RDD Telephone Surveys and Internet Surveys Conducted with Probability and Non-Probability Samples
The Macro Sort of the State Electorates
Political Parties in State and Nation
A Bridge to Somewhere
Heuristics Behaving Badly
Modeling Multilevel Data Structures
I Disrespectfully Agree
The President, Referendum Voting, and Subnational Elections in the United States
Electoral Accountability for State Legislative Roll Calls and Ideological Representation
The Ideological Mapping of American Legislatures
Presidential Coattails and Midterm Losses in State Legislative Elections
Resurgent Mass Partisanship
Party Identification at Multiple Levels of Government
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |