Macropartisanship in California

Korey, John L.; Lascher, Edward L.

doi:10.1093/poq/nfj011

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“…Indeed, our prior research (Korey and Lascher 2006) emphasized a pronounced shift toward the Democrats among California adults during the 1990s and analyzed some of the reasons for this major change. We also find evidence in California for the ideological sorting emphasized by other scholars examining the United States as a whole (e.g., Abromowitz and Saunders 1998;Levendusky 2009).…”

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“…Accordingly, we have limited relevant data from the most recent surveys. Additionally, Field has been inconsistent in its scheme for weighting the data, and the documentation for how weights are applied is incomplete (for a more extensive discussion of problems with using the Field weights, see Korey and Lascher 2006). Accordingly, we use the unweighted data, which may make the analysis more subject to both random and systematic sampling errors.…”

Section: Why the Field Polls Are The Best Source Of Data For Party Idmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Myth of the Independent Voter, California Style

Lascher¹,

Korey²

2011

CJPP

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Much recent California political commentary stresses the sharp rise in the proportion of voters declining to state a party preference and the supposed increasing importance of political independents. Yet The Myth of the Independent Voter and other political science literature provide grounds for skepticism, emphasizing the strong partisan leanings of most self declared independents. We reexamine the evidence, drawing on the most appropriate source of data: Field Polls of the California electorate over many years. We find that expectations from Myth generally hold up well. Most California independents lean toward one or the other major party, the portion of pure independents has increased only marginally, Californians continue to follow their party allegiance in expressing voting preferences, and on several measures pure independents remain the least civically engaged adults. We also analyze why misconceptions about independent voters are so enduring despite political science evidence to the contrary.

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Section: Why the Field Polls Are The Best Source Of Data For Party Idmentioning

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The Myth of the Independent Voter, California Style

Lascher¹,

Korey²

2011

CJPP

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“…Although more than 40% of the national electorate identified as Democratic throughout the 1970s, Democratic identification dipped below 30% by the mid-1990s (Gallup various years) before rebounding later in the decade. Similarly, Korey and Lascher (2006) demonstrate that macropartisanship in California seems to have trended Republican from 1980 to 1991 but shifted toward the Democratic Party starting in 1992. These trends beg further empirical examination to see if changes in party identification among California's populace are predictable with national trend changes.…”

Section: Party Identification Change: Macropartisanship Ballot Initimentioning

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A Blue Tide in the Golden State

Dyck

Johnson

Wasson³

2011

American Politics Research

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Party identification is notoriously "sticky," yet over the last three decades the California electorate has changed tremendously. A once red state has become one of the most reliable Democratic strongholds in the nation. What explains this change? One common explanation rests with population shifts and macropartisan trends. Another claims the combination of a rapidly expanding Latino electorate and a series of high-profile anti-immigrant ballot initiatives supported by the state's Republicans drove partisan change in California. Building off of previous research, we seek to reconcile the differential impacts of these factors on the state's Latinos and non-Hispanic Whites. Our analyses partially confirm and clarify previous findings regarding Latino partisan change, while directly challenging findings regarding partisan change among non-Hispanic Whites.

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“…The Field Poll (previously known as the California Poll) has consistently asked large, randomly-selected samples of Californians to place themselves on an ideological scale. Korey and Lascher (2006) have compiled the responses to this question from many Field Polls administered from 1982 to 2001. A longer time series of such data would be ideal, but the study does provide a consistent measure of voter ideology during two decades in which legislative polarization rose sharply.…”

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“…Notes: All of the data in this figure were collected from the California Poll/Field Poll, and generously lent to the author, by Korey and Lascher (2006). Because this data series goes back further than the Field Poll data contained in Figure 2, it provides some evidence of ideological polarization among California voters.…”

Section: Figure 2 Voter Ideology In California 1982-2001mentioning

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Does Partisan Polarization Lead to Policy Gridlock in California?

Kousser¹

2010

California Journal of Politics and Policy

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Over the past 50 years, partisan polarization-the ideological distance between the typical Democratic and the average Republican legislator-has widened in California. This article asks whether growing polarization has led to increasing legislative gridlock. Using journalistic sources to create a new measure of gridlock, it charts the percentage of major issues that state leaders were unable to resolve in the first year of every gubernatorial term from 1931 to 2004. It finds that divided government dramatically increases the level of gridlock, that legislative party polarization exerts no direct effect, but that higher levels of polarization magnify the impact of divided government on gridlock.

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Macropartisanship in California

Cited by 19 publications

References 16 publications

The Myth of the Independent Voter, California Style

The Myth of the Independent Voter, California Style

A Blue Tide in the Golden State

Does Partisan Polarization Lead to Policy Gridlock in California?

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