Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: A Roll Call Analysis of the California Assembly

博士论文改进补助金：加州议会的点名分析

• 批准号: 0214514
• 负责人: Jeffrey Lewis
• 金额: $ 1.19万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-08-01 至 2004-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0214514&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Roll

The Doctoral Dissertation student produces a computerized database of all roll-call votes cast in the California Assembly since 1849. Using a Poole-Rosenthal method of analyzing the ideological composition of the US has greatly increased the understanding of the Congress. By employing roll data from every Congressional session and assuming that each member's ideological position is relatively fixed from one session to the next, Poole and Rosenthal are able to locate all members of Congress throughout its history in a common ideological space. Given this cross-temporally comparable space, they are able to address questions of how, for example, partisan divergence, regional alignment, and the dimensionality of political conflict have changed over time. While the leverage of this approach clearly extends beyond the US Congress, there are few such applications in the literature. In this grant, the student brings the power of Poole and Rosenthal's method to the study of party and ideology within California's state legislature. The dissertation will unravel the dynamics of partisanship in the California legislature and, in particular, how these dynamics are affected by electoral institutions, such as rules governing primary elections, which have varied considerably across California's history. In this case, the data generated are used to measure the degree of partisan alignment and polarization through California's history. Application of these data to other central questions of legislative scholarship such as the effects of term limits, legislative professionalization, or the presence of the ballot initiative come quickly to mind. The researcher has already completed collection of these data for 1957-1958, 1967-1968, 1977-1978, 1987-1988, and 1993-2001 sessions.This is a dataset that will be used by other scholars interested in these questions.

这位博士论文学生制作了一个计算机化数据库，其中包含自 1849 年以来加州议会的所有唱名投票。使用普尔-罗森塔尔方法分析美国的意识形态构成大大增加了对国会的了解。 通过使用每次国会会议的滚动数据，并假设每个议员的意识形态立场从一个会议到下一个会议都是相对固定的，普尔和罗森塔尔能够将国会历史上的所有议员定位在一个共同的意识形态空间中。 考虑到这种跨时间的可比空间，他们能够解决党派分歧、区域联盟以及政治冲突的维度如何随时间变化等问题。 虽然这种方法的影响力显然超出了美国国会的范围，但文献中很少有这样的应用。 在这笔资助中，该学生将普尔和罗森塔尔方法的力量带入了加利福尼亚州立法机构内的政党和意识形态研究。 这篇论文将揭示加州立法机构中党派之争的动态，特别是这些动态如何受到选举制度的影响，例如初选规则，这些规则在加州历史上差异很大。 在这种情况下，生成的数据用于衡量加州历史上的党派联盟和两极分化程度。 人们很快就会想到将这些数据应用于立法学术的其他核心问题，例如任期限制的影响、立法专业化或投票倡议的存在。 研究人员已经完成了1957-1958年、1967-1968年、1977-1978年、1987-1988年和1993-2001年这些数据的收集。这是一个数据集，可供其他对这些问题感兴趣的学者使用。