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Issue Salience and Support for Civil Rights Legislation among Southern Democrats
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This article is published in Legislative Studies Quarterly.The article was published on 1998-01-01. It has received 81 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Southern Democrats & Salience (language).read more
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Out of Step, Out of Office: Electoral Accountability and House Members' Voting
TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between incumbents' electoral performance and roll-call support for their party through a series of tests of the 1956-1996 elections and found that an incumbent receives a lower vote share the more he supports his party.
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The centrality of race in american politics
TL;DR: The authors examine the influence of race on the political attitudes, behavior, and institutions of both blacks and whites in the U.S. and identify linkages across these domains and then discuss the implications of this work for assessing the nation's progress toward achieving racial justice.
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Presidential Approval and Legislative Success
TL;DR: The authors argue that public salience and issue complexity determine the extent to which a president can capitalize on approval, and proceed to test this hypothesis on U.S. House of Representatives roll call votes between 1989 and 2000.
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Black Politicians Are More Intrinsically Motivated to Advance Blacks’ Interests: A Field Experiment Manipulating Political Incentives
TL;DR: Broockman et al. as discussed by the authors found that black politicians are more intrinsically motivated to advance black interests than are their white counterparts, while non-black legislators were markedly less likely to respond when their political incentives to do so were diminished, while black legislators typically continued to respond even when doing so promised little political reward.
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The President's Legislative Influence from Public Appeals
TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical analysis of the effect of public appeals on the effectiveness of presidential bargaining power is presented, and the results support the hypotheses that appeals should generate influence, but that this influence depends on presidents strategically choosing issues to promote to the public.