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Congress, Social Movements and Public Opinion: Multiple Origins of Women's Rights Legislation:

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Scholars often characterize congressional response to public opinion as either reflecting opinion and legislating accordingly or manipulating opinion for political ends as mentioned in this paper. But when the wider political enriches when the wide political en...
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Scholars often characterize congressional response to public opinion as either reflecting opinion and legislating accordingly or manipulating opinion for political ends. When the wider political en...

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Was it Worth the Effort? The Outcomes and Consequences of Social Movements

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the cultural and institutional effects of social movements and the indirect and unintended consequences produced by these movements, focusing on the effectiveness of disruptive and violent actions and the role of several organizational variables for movement success.
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The stages of the policy process and the Equal Rights Amendment, 1972-1982

TL;DR: This paper examined three stages of policy development with regard to state ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and found that movements mattered more to legislative decisions in the earlier stages of the policy process, but their effects were eclipsed in later stages by public opinion.
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Going to the Chapel? Same-Sex Marriage Bans in the United States, 1973–2000

TL;DR: For example, the authors analyzed state-level same-sex marriage bans from 1973 to 2000 focusing on the relative impact of the political opportunity structure, citizen ideology, and interest organization strength on this particular policy change.
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Political, Biographical, and Cultural Consequences of Social Movements

TL;DR: The authors reviewed recent and less recent literature on the consequences of social movements and protest activities focusing on three types of consequences: political, personal and biographical, and cultural, and concluded that the field is full of valuable works dealing with this crucial issue and is rapidly growing thanks in particular to a new wave of scholars interested in this topic.
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Co-integration and Error Correction: Representation, Estimation and Testing

TL;DR: The relationship between co-integration and error correction models, first suggested in Granger (1981), is here extended and used to develop estimation procedures, tests, and empirical examples.
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A Guide to Econometrics

TL;DR: The fourth edition of "A Guide to Econometrics" provides an overview of the subject and an intuitive feel for its concepts and techniques without the notation and technical detail often characteristic of econometric textbooks.
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Spurious regressions in econometrics

TL;DR: In this paper, it is pointed out that it is very common to see reported in applied econometric literature time series regression equations with an apparently high degree of fit, as measured by the coefficient of multiple correlation R2 or the corrected coefficient R2, but with an extremely low value for the Durbin-Watson statistic.
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Forecasting and testing in co-integrated systems

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the behavior of forecasts made from a co-integrated system as introduced by Granger (1981), Granger and Weiss (1983), and Engle and Granger (1987).
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Constituency Influence in Congress

TL;DR: The constituency influence over the lower house of Congress is commonly thought to be both a normative principle and a factual truth of American government as mentioned in this paper, and many political scientists feel regretfully that the Framers' wish has come all too true.