Ideology and Interests in the Political Marketplace

Bonica, Adam

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“…For victims' families and neighbors and for the control victims' families and neighbors, I matched their identifying information to current 2013 records of registered voters and to Federal Election Commission records of campaign contributors (20).…”

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Long-term effect of September 11 on the political behavior of victims’ families and neighbors

Hersh

2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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This article investigates the long-term effect of September 11, 2001 on the political behaviors of victims' families and neighbors. Relative to comparable individuals, family members and residential neighbors of victims have become-and have stayed-significantly more active in politics in the last 12 years, and they have become more Republican on account of the terrorist attacks. The method used to demonstrate these findings leverages the random nature of the terrorist attack to estimate a causal effect and exploits new techniques to link multiple, individual-level, governmental databases to measure behavioral change without relying on surveys or aggregate analysis.terrorism | political participation | voting | big data | matching S eptember 11, 2001's (hereafter 9/11) effect on the UnitedStates population has been a topic of intrigue across the social sciences for the last 12 years. Short-term and long-term changes stemming from the attacks may help us understand how common citizens react to the stress and threat of mass terrorism. Following 9/11, researchers found heightened levels of posttraumatic stress across the country (1), especially close to the New York attacks (2), as well as increases in individuals' trust in government (3) and conservative political attitudes (4). Heightened levels of stress and threat are linked to authoritarian political attitudes (5-7). Changes in political attitudes are consequential and measurable outcomes of the psychological effects of politicized violence.Estimating the specific and long-term effects of the attacks on the families and neighbors of victims aids our understanding of terrorism, but also sheds light on individuals who have substantial influence in the shaping of public policy. Changes in the law often come when policy equilibria are punctuated by sudden events (8). September 11th was one such event, resulting in policy shifts in domestic security and foreign relations. However, 9/11 is just one example: natural disasters, acts of gun violence, child abductions, even corporate scandals can serve as shocks that catalyze long-lasting policy change. Victims of politicized tragedies can play an important role in shaping policy change. For example, parents of children murdered in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting have become active in lobbying Congress to amend gun laws (for other examples, consult ref. 9). Families of 9/11 victims became similarly involved in politics following the attacks, primarily lobbying policymakers to advance anti-terrorism laws. (See, for example, the following organizations: Families of September 11th, 9/11 Families for a Safe and Strong America, Voices of September 11th, and September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.) Americans who lost loved ones in 9/11 are thus not only a population of interest for their connection to a major historical event, but their behavior holds lessons for understanding policy influence following system shocks.To estimate behavioral change among 9/11 victims' families and neighbors, I used a method of an...

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Long-term effect of September 11 on the political behavior of victims’ families and neighbors

Hersh

2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…First, we measure the ideology of primary candidates using data from Adam Bonica (Bonica, 2013). His IRT count model uses joint maximum likelihood estimation to estimate ideology scores for candidates who received money from at least 30 unique contributors during their election cycle.…”

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Primaries and Candidates: Examining the Influence of Primary Electorates on Candidate Ideology

Nielson

Visalvanich

2014

SSRN Journal

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Primary elections in the United States have been under-studied in the political science literature. Using new data to estimate the ideal points of primary election candidates and constituents, we examine the link between the ideological leanings of primary electorates and the ideological orientation of U.S. congressional candidates. We use district-level data from the Cooperative Congressional Election Study and ideal point estimates for congressional primary election candidates to examine the role of primary electorate ideology in the selection of party nominees. We find that more extreme Republicans are more likely to win their party's primary and that Republican and Democratic candidates are responsive to different electoral constituencies.

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“…It is also of interest to those who study "interest groups" (often nonprofit organizations) (Poole and Rosenthal 2007;Bonica 2013;Mason 2015;Ainsworth 1993;Ainsworth and Sened 1993;McKay 2010), as well as in public management scholarship (Clinton et al 2012;Clinton and Lewis 2008;Bertelli and Grose 2009;Clinton, Lewis, and Selin 2014;Chen and Johnson 2015). Scholars have long been interested in the interplay between politics and political actors, institutions and ideology.…”

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Measuring Latent Constructs in Nonprofit Surveys with Item Response Theory: The Example of Political Ideology

Mason

2017

Nonprofit Policy Forum

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Latent constructs are the unobservable characteristics of individuals, groups and organizations. Although researchers use many tools to measure latent constructs, including scaled-items and factor analysis techniques, this study offers a different way to measure these characteristics in nonprofit research. Using Item Response Theory (IRT), this study develops one approach to measure revealed political ideology among leaders in nonprofit social welfare organizations. This approach can also be used to measure a variety of other constructs that may be difficult to measure through traditional approaches, opening up new lines of inquiry for those who study nonprofit organizations.

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Ideology and Interests in the Political Marketplace

Cited by 80 publications

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Long-term effect of September 11 on the political behavior of victims’ families and neighbors

Long-term effect of September 11 on the political behavior of victims’ families and neighbors

Primaries and Candidates: Examining the Influence of Primary Electorates on Candidate Ideology

Measuring Latent Constructs in Nonprofit Surveys with Item Response Theory: The Example of Political Ideology

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