Statehouse Democracy
Public Opinion and Policy in the American States
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 January 1994
- ISBN 9780521424059
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages284 pages
- Size 229x153x16 mm
- Weight 567 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The authors demonstrate that state policies are highly responsive to public opinion through the analysis of state policies from the 1930s to the present.
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The importance of public opinion in the determination of public policy is the subject of considerable debate. Whether discussion centres on local, state or national affairs, the influence of the opinions of ordinary citizens is often assumed yet rarely demonstrated. Other factors such as interest group lobbying, party politics and developmental, or environmental, constraints have been thought to have the greater influence over policy decisions. Professors Erikson, Wright and McIver make the argument that state policies are highly responsive to public opinion, and they show how the institutions of state politics work to achieve this high level of responsiveness. They analyse state policies from the 1930s to the present, drawing from, and contributing to, major lines of research on American politics. Their conclusions are applied to central questions of democratic theory and affirm the robust character of the state institution.
"... thoughtfully written volume ... [The authors] have marshaled an impressive mass of data to prove their hypothesis that at the state level 'public opinion is of major importance for the determination of state policy' ... This is a solid analysis of public opinion and public policies in the state. An excellent piece of research."
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Table of Contents:
Preface; 1. Democratic states; 2. Measuring state partisanship and ideology; 3. Accounting for state differences in opinion; 4. Public opinion and policy in the American states; 5. State parties and state policy; 6. Legislative elections and state policy; 7. Political culture and policy representation; 8. Partisanship, ideology and state elections; 9. State opinion over time; 10. Conclusions: democracy in the American states; References; Index.
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