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Articles by Michael W. Sances
Legitimate questions: Public perceptions of the legitimacy of US presidential election outcomes
Introduction Do Americans view the electoral system as legitimate? While the public’s views toward the legitimacy of political systems have long been a topic of interest to political scientists (Easton, 1965), studying legitimacy has become all the more important in the wake of the January 6th, 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Numerous polls show majorities of Republicans agree with Donald Trump’s claims that Joe Biden’s election was illegitimate.
Do District Attorneys Represent Their Voters? Evidence from California's Era of Criminal Justice Reform
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Using screeners to measure respondent attention on self-administered surveys: Which items and how many?
1. Introduction In order to ensure that respondents pay attention on self-administered surveys, researchers frequently use “Screener” questions to identify inattentive respondents (Oppenheimer et al., Reference Oppenheimer, Meyvis and Davidenko2009; Meade and Craig, Reference Meade and Craig2012; Berinsky et al., Reference Berinsky, Margolis and Sances2014).
Presidential Approval and the Inherited Economy
ARTICLE Michael W. Sances, I thank Justin de Benedictis-Kessner, Eric Groenendyk, Martin Vinaes Larsen, four anonymous reviewers, and seminar participants at Aarhus University, the University of Copenhagen, Yale University's American Politics & Public Policy Workshop, and the 2020 Southern Political Science Association meeting for helpful comments. The survey experiments reported in this article received approval from the University of Memphis Institutional Review Board (study PRO-FY2019-351).
When Voters Matter: The Limits of Local Government Responsiveness
Abrams, Samuel J., Fiorina, Morris P. “‘The Big Sort’ That Wasn’t: A Skeptical Reexamination.” PS: Political Science & Politics 45 (2): 203–10. Google Scholar | Crossref Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations . 1962. State Constitutional and Statutory Restrictions on Local Taxing Powers. Washington, DC: Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. Google Scholar Allard, Scott, Burns, Nancy, Gamm, Gerald. 1998.
How Unusual Was 2016? Flipping Counties, Flipping Voters, and the Education–Party Correlation since 1952 | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Abstract Many explanations of the 2016 election result, a seemingly anomalous macrolevel phenomenon, have centered on two seemingly anomalous microlevel phenomena: many counties and citizens who had voted for Obama in 2008 and 2012 flipped and voted for Trump, and low-education whites gave more of their votes to Trump than to Clinton. In this article, I first assess the novelty of these phenomena by placing them in the context of past elections.
Partisan Differences in Nonpartisan Activity: The Case of Charitable Giving
Political Behavior December 2017, Volume 39, Issue 4, pp 839–864 | Cite as Original Paper First Online: 20 December 2016 Abstract How do political identities shape seemingly non-political behaviors, such as consumption activity? This paper explores the extent to which political divisions impact apolitical behaviors, focusing on the case of voluntary donations to charitable organizations.
Missing the Target? Using Surveys to Validate Social Media Ad Targeting
1. Introduction Advertisements placed on social media websites are increasingly used by political scientists as a means of survey recruitment. In addition to the low cost, relative to more traditional methods, a key advantage is the power to target advertisements toward particular geographic, demographic, and political groups.
Analysis | What happens to police departments that collect more fines? They solve fewer crimes.
Alongside the Black Lives Matter movement in the past several years, civil rights advocates have begun pointing out that the way municipalities collect fees and fines often low-income communities of color, especially when those communities .
Exploitative Revenues, Law Enforcement, and the Quality of Government Service:
A growing body of evidence indicates that local police departments are being used to provide revenue for municipalities by imposing and collecting fees, fines, and asset forfeitures. We examine whether revenue collection activities compromise the criminal investigation functions of local police departments. We find that police departments in cities that collect a greater share of their revenue from fees solve violent and property crimes at significantly lower rates.
Cities with more African Americans rely more on fines for revenue
The rise of the Black Lives Matter movement following the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, also focused attention on how police and city officials use fines taken from communities of color to fund city administration. In new research, which examined revenue data from more than 9,000 cities, Michael W. Sances and Hye Young You find that cities with a larger African American population collect a greater number of fines.
Attribution Errors in Federalist Systems: When Voters Punish the President for Local Tax Increases
How do voters attribute blame when policy responsibility is shared? While central to accountability, this question is difficult to answer because “who does what” is often ambiguous. This article exploits a case where policy responsibility is unambiguous: local tax referendums. Although presidents have no control over property taxes or the decision to raise local rates, I find that voters punish the president’s party for tax increases enacted via direct democracy.
Who Pays for Government? Descriptive Representation and Exploitative Revenue Sources
Crossref reports the following articles citing this article: Kasey HenricksPower to the Paperwork? Mandatory Financial Sanctions and the Bureaucratic Means to Racially Unequal Ends, American Behavioral Scientist 65, no.88(Jul 2019): 1104–1126. Siân MughanMunicipal reliance on fine and fee revenues: How local courts contribute to extractive revenue practices in US cities, Public Budgeting & Finance 41, no.22(Dec 2020): 22–44.
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