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Autor:
Patrick Flavin
Publikováno v:
American Politics Research. 51:174-181
Citizens in a democracy expect elected officials will be responsive to their political opinions and govern in an effective way that improves their quality of life. However, a government that is too responsive to public sentiments may, in practice, be
Publikováno v:
Political Research Quarterly. :106591292211459
We investigate the effects of states’ labor laws, which can enhance or diminish the political power of public and private sector labor unions, on government responsiveness to public opinion. Drawing on newly developed measures of public opinion and
Autor:
Gregory Shufeldt, Patrick Flavin
Publikováno v:
Publius: The Journal of Federalism. 50:280-309
Despite increasing popular and media attention to the preemption of local policymaking by state governments, the empirical political science literature on preemption remains relatively scarce. After first identifying and discussing state preemption l
Autor:
Fielding Montgomery, Patrick Flavin
Publikováno v:
International Political Science Review. 41:554-566
The media can play an important role in the relationship between citizens and their government by acting as a watchdog and providing timely information about malfeasance and corruption. We examine whether citizens’ perceptions of government corrupt
Autor:
Patrick Flavin, Gregory Shufeldt
Publikováno v:
State Politics & Policy Quarterly. 19:83-100
We compare two widely publicized measures of state electoral integrity in the United States: the Electoral Integrity Project's 2016 U.S. Perceptions of Electoral Integrity Survey and the Pew 2014 Elections Performance Index. First, we review the theo
Publikováno v:
European Journal of Political Research. 58:1088-1107
A growing literature suggests social democratic policies, as exemplified by the welfare state and active labour market policies, promote higher levels of life satisfaction compared to the neoliberal agenda of austerity, smaller government and more
Autor:
Patrick Flavin
Publikováno v:
Social Science Research. 78:28-40
A growing literature across the social sciences uses individuals' self-assessments of their own well-being to evaluate the impact of public policy decisions on citizens' quality of life. To date, however, there has been no rigorous empirical investig
Autor:
Patrick Flavin, William W. Franko
Publikováno v:
Political Behavior. 42:845-864
As levels of residential economic segregation increase in the United States, politicians may have greater incentives to focus their attention on the demands of those living in wealthier communities at the expense of those living in less affluent area
Autor:
Patrick Flavin, Wilson Law
Publikováno v:
Electoral Studies. 75:102422
This paper investigates what proportion of voters select their candidate based on policy proximity in a spatial voting framework and evaluates policy proximity's importance for vote choices. We develop a novel procedure to identify proximity voting a
Autor:
Patrick Flavin
Publikováno v:
Social Science Quarterly. 99:616-625
Objectives The U.S. Supreme Court's 2012 ruling on the Affordable Care Act was a federal exogenous shock that presented all states with the decision to continue their Medicaid program in its current form or expand it to include thousands of newly eli