Agenda Setting in Congressional Elections: The Impact of Issues and Campaigns on Voting Behavior

2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 419 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen G. Abbe ◽  
Jay Goodliffe ◽  
Paul S. Herrnson ◽  
Kelly D. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Congressional Elections ◽  
The Impact

Agenda Setting in Congressional Elections: The Impact of Issues and Campaigns on Voting Behavior

2003 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Owen G. Abbe ◽  
Jay Goodliffe ◽  
Paul S. Herrnson ◽  
Kelly D. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Congressional Elections ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The Effects of Charges of Corruption on Voting Behavior in Congressional Elections

1980 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 697-708 ◽  
Author(s):  
John G. Peters ◽  
Susan Welch
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Important Determinant ◽  
Congressional Elections ◽  
Electoral Impact ◽  
Electoral Turnout ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

This study assesses the electoral impact of charges of corruption on candidates in contests for the U.S. House of Representatives in five elections from 1968 to 1978. This assessment includes a consideration of the victory or defeat of alleged or convicted corrupt candidates, and an examination of the impact of corruption charges on electoral turnout and percentage of votes polled by the accused candidates. While most candidates accused of corruption are reelected, overall they appear to suffer a loss of 6–11 percent from their expected vote. The type of corruption charge is an important determinant of vote loss. Allegations of corruption appear to have little effect on the net turnout.

scholarly journals Majority Black Districts, Republican Ascendancy, and Party Competition in the South, 1988-2000

2002 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Seth C. McKee
Keyword(s):  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Congressional Elections ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Deep South ◽  
The South ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
Level Data ◽  
The Impact

This article analyzes the impact of race-based redistricting and the Republican trend on party competition in races for the U.S. House of Representatives in the South from 1988 to 2000. The region is divided into sub-regions (Deep and Peripheral) in order to show that the combination of reapportionment and newly created majority black districts disproportionately crowds out white Democratic representatives in the Deep South. It is argued that race-based redistricting serves as an accelerating mechanism that hastens the secular realignment of whites into the Republican Party. Aggregate and individual level data are presented to illustrate the effect of the Republican trend and majority black districts on party competition and voting behavior in congressional elections.

The Media Agenda

2019 ◽  
pp. 271-281
Author(s):  
Rens Vliegenthart ◽  
Stefaan Walgrave
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
International Context ◽  
Vast Amount ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
The Media ◽  
Western European ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Research Studies

This chapter discusses what role the media agenda has played in (comparative) agenda research. Studies into the characteristics of the media agenda demonstrate that, compared to other agendas, the media agenda is characterized by high levels of responsiveness and volatility and that various outlets that jointly constitute the agenda strongly influence each other. In recent years, a vast amount of research has considered the impact of the media agenda on the parliamentary agenda (political agenda-setting) and how the size of this impact depends on a wide variety of contingent factors. Our empirical example uncovers considerable overlap in media agendas across various Western European countries, reflecting the importance of the international context in the construction of news.

Against Their Apparent Self-Interest: The Authorization of Independent State Legislative Ethics Commissions, 1973–96

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth A. Rosenson
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Party Competition ◽  
Independent State ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Ethics Policy ◽  
Ethics Commissions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
State Legislative

Why do state legislators enact policies that conflict with their immediate self-interest? I address this question by assessing the impact of traditional and non-traditional policy determinants on ethics policy adoption. Specifically, I use event history analysis to identify the factors that explain the authorization of independent state legislative ethics commissions from 1973 to 1996. I find that the determinants of ethics policy are substantially, but not completely, different from those of other policies, with ethics policy fitting into an agenda-setting model better than many other policies. Scandals and the actions of other states played a prominent role in setting the agenda and facilitating the authorization of ethics commissions. The agenda-setting process transforms the immediate self-interest of legislators on this issue from one of concern about their own economic well being to one of concern about re-election. In addition, political culture, institutional power arrangements, legislative compensation, and party competition had small but discernible effects on the likelihood of a state establishing a legislative ethics commission.

scholarly journals Agenda Setting in Water and IWRM: Discourse Analysis of Water Policy Debate in Pakistan

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1656 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Arfan ◽  
Kamran Ansari ◽  
Asmat Ullah ◽  
Daniyal Hassan ◽  
Altaf Siyal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
Water Resource Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Irrigation Management ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
Global Agenda ◽  
The Impact

This article explores the water policy narrative in Pakistan, and identifies its historical trajectories and influences, as well as the impact of the global agenda setting of water for 2030. For this purpose, water sector reforms in Pakistan are examined as a case study. The National Water Policy (NWP) 2018 and Participatory Irrigation Management (PIM) reforms are critically evaluated and loopholes identified, in terms of both theoretical aspects and constraints in their practical implementation. The overall analysis reveals that the engineering narrative is dominant in policy circles and large-scale infrastructure construction is seen as an exceptional measure to overcome the current loss of storage potential due to sedimentation. On the other hand, the adoption of the Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) framework reflects the desire of state institutions to imbue water policy reform with international credibility. The IWRM framework has been adopted as isomorphic mimicry to appease international financing institutions and donors. PIM reform is thus far from delivering the desired results due to ideological battles among new (i.e., the Participatory Farmers Institution) and traditional bureaucratic irrigation institutions. As adopted, the global agenda setting of water, in the shape of IWRM, is a repackaging of existing activities, and prevents alternative thinking in the setting of water priorities according to developmental needs.

scholarly journals Economic internationalization and the decline of the left–right dimension

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-49
Author(s):  
Emiliano Grossman ◽  
Nicolas Sauger
Keyword(s):  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Economic Openness ◽  
Foreign Investments ◽  
Economic Exchanges ◽  
European Election ◽  
The Impact

This article examines the continuing importance of the left–right dimension for voting behavior in Western Europe. We test the extent to which economic internationalization may affect the capacity of this dimension to structure party preferences. We explore two dimensions of internationalization, long-term openness and short-term changes, assessing, respectively, the impact of international trade and foreign investments on voters’ preference formation. To study the influence of changing context, we use four waves of the European Election Study (1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014). We show that openness to international economic exchanges tends to weaken the left–right cleavage. At the same time, long-term economic openness appears to soften the impact of short-term shocks for the relevance of left–right politics.

The Impact of Candidates’ Negative Traits on Vote Choice in New Democracies: A Test Based on Presidential Elections in South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 211-228
Author(s):  
HeeMin Kim ◽  
Jungho Roh
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Presidential Elections ◽  
New Democracies ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Election Studies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Western Democracies

The impact of candidates’ negative traits (CNTs) on voting behavior has received significant attention in election studies in recent decades. However, scholarly efforts have focused primarily on elections in advanced Western democracies, largely overlooking the relationship between candidates’ personal traits and the electorate’s voting behaviors in the context of new democracies. In this study, we fill this gap by investigating the impact of CNTs on the electorate’s vote choices in South Korean presidential elections. Our study of CNTs in South Korea shows that CNTs have statistically significant effects on the electorate’s vote choices. Our findings are particularly relevant because many new democracies are implementing fair and free elections, and the elites under previous authoritarian regimes are running in these elections.

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