Partisan Misalignment and the Counter-Partisan Response: How National Politics Conditions Majority-Party Policy Making in the American States

Miras, Nicholas S.; Rouse, Stella M.

doi:10.1017/s0007123420000745

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“…Anti-queer causes, organizations, and activists have long found common cause with partisan forces on the Right (Schreiber 2008). It is not uncommon for shifts in partisan leadership at the federal level to render more aggressive lawmaking tactics by the minority party at the state level (Miras and Rouse 2021), and 2021 was decisively partisan. Nearly all of the eighty anti-trans sports bills were sponsored by Republican lawmakers.…”

Section: Bill Content Themes and Cis Supremacymentioning

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Sports, Transgender Rights and the Bodily Politics of Cisgender Supremacy

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2021

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Between 2020 and 2021, one hundred and ten bills in state legislatures across the United States suggested banning the participation of transgender athletes on sports teams for girls and women. As of July 2021, ten such bills have become state law. This paper tracks the political shift towards targeting transgender athletes. Conservative political interests now seek laws that suture biological determinist arguments to civil rights of bodies. Although narrow binary definitions of sex have long operated in the background as a means for policy implementation under Title IX, Republican lawmakers now aim to reframe sex non-discrimination policies as means of gendered exclusion. The content of proposals reveal the centrality of ideas about bodily immutability, and body politics more generally, in shaping the future of American gender politics. My analysis of bills from 2021 argues that legislative proposals advance a logic of “cisgender supremacy” inhering in political claims about normatively gendered bodies. Political institutions are another site for advancing, enshrining, and normalizing cis-supremacist gender orders, explicitly joining cause with medical authorities as arbiters of gender normativity. Characteristics of bodies and their alleged role in evidencing sex itself have fueled the tactics of anti-transgender activists on the political Right. However, the target of their aims is not mere policy change but a state-sanctioned return to a narrowly cis- and heteropatriarchal gender order.

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Section: Bill Content Themes and Cis Supremacymentioning

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Sports, Transgender Rights and the Bodily Politics of Cisgender Supremacy

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2021

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“…Partisan composition generally matters in American politics. Although there is little evidence suggesting which type of partisan control—unified Republican or unified Democratic—has greater policymaking advantages, scholars seem to agree that states with a unified government, regardless of control by Republicans or Democrats, are more efficient and accountable than divided governments (e.g., Bjornskov & Potrafke, 2013; Krause et al, 2013; Miras & Rouse, 2022). Therefore, I expected that states with a unified government are more likely than those with a divided government to attract foreign manufacturers.…”

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Advancing Public Entrepreneurship through State Government Capacity and Competitiveness: The Impact of Discretionary Fiscal Policy of American States on Worldwide Manufacturing Industries

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2023

The American Review of Public Administration

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Many policymakers and administrators have directed efforts to increase foreign manufacturing investment (FMI) due to its potential to raise the employment rate, technological progress, and productivity in their regions. Despite foreign manufacturers’ significant influence on the economies of their host countries, institutional and policy uncertainty creates significant entry barriers for multinational manufacturers. Focusing solely on American state performance in economic development as measured by amounts of FMI, this study suggests that different institutional designs and regulations that affect state taxing and spending decision-making make a difference in FMI in American states. This research empirically assesses the relationship between fiscal federalism and FMI by focusing on the level of fiscal decentralization, federal grants, and fiscally constraining institutions. Testing two different FMI datasets that cover all 50 American states by source country between 1987–2006 and 2008–2016, this study finds that manufacturing firms increase their investment in the states that exercise higher discretion in managing fiscal policy, receive more federal grants, and implement more restrictive taxing and spending regulations. The observed positive impact of fiscal institutions and constraints is more prominent for foreign manufacturing firms in the tax-exemption group.

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“…The effects of nationalization and polarization can also be observed within state legislatures. For example, Miras and Rouse (2021) demonstrate that both Republican‐controlled and Democratic‐controlled state legislatures drive policy in their preferred partisan and ideological directions in response to the opposing party having control over the national government.…”

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Polarization and Place‐Based Representation in US State Legislatures

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Rouse

2023

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Recent scholarship has shown that legislators with deeper local roots and other preexisting place‐based attachments to their districts enjoy far‐reaching electoral advantages over their more “carpetbagging” colleagues. In this article, we consider how local roots, and its intersection with legislative polarization, influences legislative behavior, using a dataset of nearly 5,000 state legislators and novel measures of their local roots. We hypothesize that state legislators with deep local roots in their districts should be less ideologically polarized than their less‐rooted colleagues. This is precisely what we find. Using Shor‐McCarty ideology measures, we show that the most locally rooted legislators are 16% less ideologically extreme than their unrooted counterparts. These effects are comparable to or exceed those of district partisanship, chamber seniority, or other legislator characteristics. Collectively, these findings show that legislators’ local roots not only affect their electoral fortunes, but also have major implications for legislative activity and party polarization.

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Partisan Misalignment and the Counter-Partisan Response: How National Politics Conditions Majority-Party Policy Making in the American States

Cited by 9 publications

References 55 publications

Sports, Transgender Rights and the Bodily Politics of Cisgender Supremacy

Sports, Transgender Rights and the Bodily Politics of Cisgender Supremacy

Advancing Public Entrepreneurship through State Government Capacity and Competitiveness: The Impact of Discretionary Fiscal Policy of American States on Worldwide Manufacturing Industries

Polarization and Place‐Based Representation in US State Legislatures

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