Devin Caughey|Christopher Warshaw
Policy Preferences and Policy Change: Dynamic Responsiveness in the American States, 1936–2014
Massachusetts Institute of Technology|George Washington University
using eight decades data examine magnitude mechanisms moderators dynamic responsiveness american states show economic especially social issues liberalism state publics predicts future change state policy liberalism dynamic responsiveness gradual however large policy shifts result cumulation incremental responsiveness many years partisan control government appears mediate fraction responsiveness suggesting contrary conventional wisdom responsiveness occurs large part adaptation incumbent officials dynamic responsiveness increased time seem influenced institutions direct democracy campaign finance regulations conclude findings though respects normatively ambiguous whole paint reassuring portrait statehouse democracy