Campaign Spending on California Ballot Propositions, 1924-1984: Trends and Voting Effects

Owens, John R.; Wade, Larry L.

doi:10.1177/106591298603900408

Cited by 15 publications

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“…This is supported by studies showing that when one side has more money than the other, rejection efforts are more effective (Lowenstein 1982;Owens and Wade 1986;Magleby 1984). Bowler and Donovan (1998) find similar results.…”

Section: Broder 2000; Garrett and Gerber 2001)supporting

confidence: 54%

Are Ballot Initiative Outcomes Influenced by the Campaigns of Independent Groups? A Precinct-Randomized Field Experiment

Rogers

Middleton

2012

SSRN Journal

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Section: Broder 2000; Garrett and Gerber 2001)supporting

confidence: 54%

Are Ballot Initiative Outcomes Influenced by the Campaigns of Independent Groups? A Precinct-Randomized Field Experiment

Rogers

Middleton

2012

SSRN Journal

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“…Spending on ballot measures in California was remarkably stable from 1924 to 1984 (Owens and Wade 1986). Increases in campaign expenditures in the Pacific Northwest between 1980 and 1988 varied by the degree of legislative professionalization, and a widening gap between incumbents and challengers was evident (Moncrief 1992).…”

Section: Electionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The State of State Politics Research

Brace

Jewett

1995

Political Research Quarterly

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Reviewers of the state of state politics research often lament the field's lack of theoretical progress and its fragmented character These conditions persist yet a review of this research published in the professions top journals over the past decade reveals a substantively rich and often methodologically sophisticated body of scholarship. Applying an inclusive approach, this essay examines all research published on state politics over the last decade in the profession's six top journals: APSR, AJPS, JOP, PRQ Polity and SSQ. Trends in substantive focus and the findings of this research are described, as are methodological approaches and innovations. The study takes stock of the progress the field has made and identifies promising avenues for future inquiry. The subfield could advance by emphasizing its unique comparative analytical advantages. These advantages provide an excellent opportunity to evaluate the impact of institutional and environmental contexts on political behavior, processes and outcomes. The field needs to emphasize the importance of modeling political behavior across contexts, and interactively across contextual and individual levels of analysis. By so doing, the subfield can show how states matter and also assess the generality of models that focus too often on behavior or process within single contexts.Reviews of the state politics subfield typically deplore the field's lack of progress and complain about the disunity in approaches and subject matter that characterize the field's research. On one level, this review departs from that tradition. Studies appearing in the professioris top journals make clear that there has been notable progress in the study of state politics over the past decade. Those laboring in the field have contributed to knowledge about state politics including the interplay of states within a national setting, the effects NOTE: Aubrey Jewett provided enormous assistance in compiling the bibliography used in this essay. His diligent and extraordinary efforts were instrumental in the completion of this study. The study benefited as well from the thoughtful input of John Geer and the anonymous reviewers he selected.

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“…Price (1975) finds that Western states are more likely to provide for the use of initiatives, and their electorate votes on initiatives with greater frequency as compared with the behavior in Eastern states. Owens and Wade (1986) find that the probability that a proposition passes and the inflation adjusted campaign related expenditures have both been stable over time. 3 Zisk (1987) examines the decrease in participation on propositions compared to top candidate races by using aggregate election results and survey data f r om four states over five years.…”

Section: Theory Of Proposition Votingmentioning

confidence: 87%