Statehouse Democracy
Public Opinion and Policy in the American States

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Zusammenfassung The authors demonstrate that state policies are highly responsive to public opinion through the analysis of state policies from the 1930s to the present! drawing from and contributing to major lines of research on American politics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Democratic states; 2. Measuring state partisanship and ideology; 3. Accounting for state differences in opinion; 4. Public opinion and policy in the American states; 5. State parties and state policy; 6. Legislative elections and state policy; 7. Political culture and policy representation; 8. Partisanship, ideology and state elections; 9. State opinion over time; 10. Conclusions: democracy in the American states; References; Index.