التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Moves and Countermoves: Countermovement Diffusion of State Constitutional Amendments. |
| المؤلفون: |
Fay, Daniel L. |
| المصدر: |
Policy Studies Journal. May2018, Vol. 46 Issue 2, p354-377. 24p. 5 Charts. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
CONSTITUTIONAL amendments (United States), POLICY diffusion, STATE constitutional law, SAME-sex marriage, U.S. state legislatures, LEGAL status of citizens, STATE constitutions, U.S. states politics & government, HISTORY, U.S. states |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
UNITED States |
| الملخص (بالإنجليزية): |
Policy diffusion literature generally studies the adoption of similar policies across jurisdictions, but often overlooks how opposing policies or legal constraints may influence the enactment of rigid state constitutional amendments. The current study models the spread of state constitutional amendments designed to prevent future policy change. Using conditional event history analysis on all states from 1999 to 2011 the empirical models analyze the spread of same‐sex marriage prohibitive amendments across the United States. Findings suggest that the nearby adoption of opposing policies encourage state legislatures to introduce prohibitive amendments. The regional diffusion effect suggests that policymakers “protect” their jurisdiction from nearby diffusion forces or seek electoral gains by symbolic protection by committing an already existing policy into the rigid state constitutional framework. Regional policy diffusion may, therefore, be explained by a countermovement mechanism unique to the state constitutional amendment process. This protective strategy among state legislatures and citizens may explain why many policy areas are frequently codified in state constitutions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
| Abstract (Chinese): |
摘要: 政策扩散文献通常研究不同管辖地所采纳的相似政策, 却经常忽略对立的政策或法律约束可能会导致严格的州立法修正案的颁布。本研究分析了用以防止未来政策变化的州宪法修正案的扩散。通过对1999年到2011年间的各州进行条件事件史分析, 实证模型研究了防止同性恋的修正案在全美的扩散。结果显示, 临近的州采纳相反的政策会促使本州议员提出限制性修正案。这一地区间扩散的作用表明决策者“保护”他们的管辖权不被临近州的扩散推动力所干扰或通过将现有政策升级为严格的州宪法框架这个象征性保护来争取选举筹码。地区间政策扩散可能因此被独特存在于州立法修正案过程中的反向运动机制所解释。这一各州议员和民众的保护性策略可能解释为什么很多政策领域经常被州宪法所写到。 [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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