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Association: Name: Southern Political Science Association URL: http://www.spsa.net
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Davis, Belinda. and Kim, Doo-Rae. "Rethinking Electoral Competition, Legislative Balance, and American State Welfare Policy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Inter-Continental Hotel, New Orleans, LA, Jan 08, 2004 <Not Available>. 2008-10-10 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p68021_index.html>

Davis, B. and Kim, D. , 2004-01-08 "Rethinking Electoral Competition, Legislative Balance, and American State Welfare Policy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Inter-Continental Hotel, New Orleans, LA Online <.PDF>. 2008-10-10 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p68021_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Recent research in state politics has examined the manner in which political variables function in the policy making process, how they interact with one another, and what their effects on policy outcomes are. We add to this body of literature by distinguishing between factors that determine a state's location in the policy liberalism space and factors that affect the consistency of a state's policy outcome. We propose that partisan balance and elite liberalism determine a state�s policy liberalism by its role in fixing a state�s position in the policy space, while electoral competition, legislative professionalism, and citizen ideology function as mediators in that they affect the consistency with which a state takes its position in the policy space. We use the heteroscedastic normal regression model to empirically test hypotheses about which political variables contribute to position and to consistency. Analyses on welfare efforts in the American States between 1973 and 1992 show us that elite liberalism, rather than partisan balance, is confirmed as a determinant of a state�s welfare efforts. Moreover electoral competition, professionalism, and citizen ideology are confirmed as mediators.

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