Examining the Influences over Roll Call Voting in Multiple Issue Areas: A Comparative US State Analysis

Jenkins, Shannon

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“… The state legislative position‐taking literature offers a number of key variables that provide voting cues for legislators, including the preference of fellow legislators, constituents, party affiliation, party leadership, interest groups, staff, personal reading, values, committee reports, executive branch, and so forth that vary in importance and effect (Ray, ; Songer et al, ). More recently, a wide variety of factors including campaign finances (Harden & Kirkland, ; Roscoe & Jenkins, ), public election funding (Masket & Miller, ), information sources (Mooney, ), and issue salience (Jenkins, ) have been explored. Our study extends this body of work to include bill frames as another variable affecting legislative vote choice.…”

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Framed for Compromise? The Role of Bill Framing in State Legislative Behavior on Natural Gas Policy

Kalaf-Hughes¹,

Kear²

2017

Policy Studies Journal

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State legislative decision making on natural gas policy has become a balancing act, as legislators are forced to grapple with tensions between economically beneficial policies and environmental impacts. Despite increased public attention to the benefits and costs related to hydraulic fracturing, there has been little scholarly attention paid to how policy framing affects legislator behavior on this issue. We analyze recorded votes on bills relating to natural gas policy in Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico between 1999 and 2008; a time period spanning the recent boom. Using a novel database of bill frames, we create a ratio measure that accounts for the proportion of environmental to economic arguments within each piece of legislation. We find status quo–challenging, anti‐development policies can receive bipartisan support, as long as economic frames balance or are greater than environmental frames. Framing natural gas as a win‐win scenario where economic benefit and environmental protection can be achieved simultaneously is an effective legislative strategy. Using the case of natural gas policy, this study demonstrates bill framing substantively affects state legislator vote choice and implies bipartisan compromise is possible given the right balance of frames.

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Framed for Compromise? The Role of Bill Framing in State Legislative Behavior on Natural Gas Policy

Kalaf-Hughes¹,

Kear²

2017

Policy Studies Journal

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“…Typologies of opposition based on the mentioned systemic factors are still functional and effective, yet they rely on models based on an ideal image of democracy that still exists in theory, but no longer corresponds to the actual performance of political actors (Andeweg et al, 2008;Cowley & Stuart, 2005;Giuliani, 2008;Kaiser, 2008;Mújica & Sánchez-Cuenca, 2006). Consensus in parliament has been proved to be affected also by non-systemic variables such as the preferences of the political actors, the characteristics of the legislation to be approved and, in particular, the policy area involved (De Giorgi, 2011;Green-Pedersen, 2007;Jenkins, 2010;Rose, 1984;Tsebelis, 2002).…”

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Introduction: Conflict and Consensus in Parliament during the Economic Crisis

Moury¹,

Giorgi²

2014

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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Since the onset of the economic crisis, parties in parliament (especially those in opposition) have found themselves faced with a dilemma: choosing between the need to cooperate with the government in order to overcome the crisis and the opportunity provided by a weakened government to stress their adversarial position so as to be more easily reelected and possibly get into power. What have they decided to do? The present contribution introduces a collection of works exploring this dilemma in southern European countries, by examining the opposition behaviour in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain; and in the European Parliament.

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“…M. Miller 2013; Squire 1993; Wright 2007). Lawmaker voting behavior is affected, with those in more professionalized legislatures asserting greater independence from their parties and missing fewer roll calls (Brown and Goodliffe 2017; Jenkins 2010). Professionalization influences collaboration patterns among legislators, particularly in term-limited states (Swift and VanderMolen 2016).…”

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Examining the Influences over Roll Call Voting in Multiple Issue Areas: A Comparative US State Analysis

Cited by 10 publications

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Framed for Compromise? The Role of Bill Framing in State Legislative Behavior on Natural Gas Policy

Framed for Compromise? The Role of Bill Framing in State Legislative Behavior on Natural Gas Policy

Introduction: Conflict and Consensus in Parliament during the Economic Crisis

A Squire Index Update

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