衡量和解释州参议院领导权

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

State Politics & Policy Quarterly Pub Date : 2022-10-07 DOI:10.1017/spq.2022.13

Matthew N. Green

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摘要

解释立法领导人权力的抽象理论已经为美国国会和州立法机构的下议院发展起来，但尚未在州参议院进行测试，尽管参议院领导人可能相当有影响力。继穆尼（2013a）之后，我开发了一个新的数字指数得分，衡量1995年至2010年各州参议院最高议院民选领导人的正式权力。然后，我用这些数据来检验解释立法领导人权力变化的各种假设。研究结果揭示了有条件党政府理论的部分证据，但仅适用于选举自己总统的参议院。当副州长担任参议院主席时，参议员们并不认为他们的最高议院民选领导人是一名能够最好地实现意识形态、选举或政策目标的官员。这突显了选举自己总统的参议院和不选举总统的参议院之间的关键差异。

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Measuring and Explaining the Power of State Senate Leadership

Abstract Theories that explain the power of legislative leaders have been developed for the U.S. Congress and lower chambers of state legislatures, but they have not been tested for state senates, even though senate leaders can be quite influential. Following Mooney (2013a), I develop a new numerical index score measuring the formal power of the top chamber-elected leader of each state senate from 1995 through 2010. I then use the data to test various hypotheses explaining variation in the power of legislative leaders. The results uncover partial evidence for conditional party government theory, but only for senates that elect their own president. When the lieutenant governor serves as senate president, senators do not perceive their top chamber-elected leader as an officer able to best carry out their ideological, electoral, or policy objectives. This underscores crucial differences between senate chambers that elect their own presidents and those that do not.

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State Politics & Policy Quarterly POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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2.00

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6.70%

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期刊介绍： State Politics & Policy Quarterly (SPPQ) features studies that develop general hypotheses of political behavior and policymaking and test these hypotheses using the unique methodological advantages of the states. It also includes field review essays and a section entitled “The Practical Researcher,” which is a service-oriented feature designed to provide a data, methodological, and assessment resource for those conducting research on state politics. SPPQ is the official journal of the State Politics and Policy section of the American Political Science Association and is published by the University of Illinois Press for the Institute of Legislative Studies at the University of Illinois at Springfield.