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

博士论文的学生产生的所有唱名投票的计算机化数据库投在加州大会自1849年以来。 用普尔-罗森塔尔的方法分析美国的意识形态构成，大大增加了国会的了解。 通过使用每一届国会会议的名册数据，并假设每个成员的意识形态立场从一届到下一届相对固定，普尔和罗森塔尔能够将国会历史上的所有成员定位在一个共同的意识形态空间中。 鉴于这种跨时间可比的空间，他们能够解决的问题，例如，党派分歧，区域联盟，以及政治冲突的维度随着时间的推移而变化。 虽然这种方法的杠杆作用显然超出了美国国会，但文献中很少有这样的应用。 在这个补助金，学生带来了普尔和罗森塔尔的方法的力量，在加州的州立法机构的政党和意识形态的研究。 本论文将揭开党派在加州立法机构的动态，特别是这些动态是如何影响选举机构，如规则管理初选，这在加州的历史上有很大的不同。 在这种情况下，生成的数据被用来衡量通过加州的历史党派联盟和两极分化的程度。 将这些数据应用于立法奖学金的其他核心问题，如任期限制的影响，立法专业化，或投票倡议的存在，很快就会浮现在脑海中。 研究者已经完成了1957-1958年、1967-1968年、1977-1978年、1987-1988年和1993-2001年的数据收集，这是一个供其他对这些问题感兴趣的学者使用的数据集。

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.