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Statehouse democracy : public opinion and policy in the American states / Robert S. Erikson, Gerald C. Wright, John P. McIver

Wright, Gerald C. [Verfasserin/Verfasser] ; McIver, John P. [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993

1 Online-Ressource (ix, 269 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

978-0-511-75293-3 ( : ebook)

978-0-521-41349-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-42405-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 967420841     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Resolving-System (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9780511752933

HN90.P8

303.3/8     Ähnliche Literatur

LOC-SH: Public opinion -- United States -- States ; State governments -- United States

Public opinion ; United States ; States ; State governments ; United States

The importance of public opinion in the determination of public policy is the subject of considerable debate. Whether discussion centres on local, state or national affairs, the influence of the opinions of ordinary citizens is often assumed yet rarely demonstrated. Other factors such as interest group lobbying, party politics and developmental, or environmental, constraints have been thought to have the greater influence over policy decisions. Professors Erikson, Wright and McIver make the argument that state policies are highly responsive to public opinion, and they show how the institutions of state politics work to achieve this high level of responsiveness. They analyse state policies from the 1930s to the present, drawing from, and contributing to, major lines of research on American politics. Their conclusions are applied to central questions of democratic theory and affirm the robust character of the state institution

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Democratic states -- Measuring state partisanship and ideology -- Accounting for state differences in opinion -- Public opinion and policy in the American states -- State parties and state policy -- Legislative elections and state policy -- Political culture and policy representation -- Partisanship, ideology and state elections -- State opinion over time -- Conclusions: democracy in the American states