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Partisan Politics, Electoral Design, and the 'Purity of the Ballot Box': Felon and Ex-Felon Disfranchisement Laws in the U.S., 1960-1999.
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Partisan Politics, Electoral Design, and the “Purity of the Ballot Box”: Felon and Ex-felon
Disfranchisement Laws in the U.S., 1960-1999.
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Antoine Yoshinaka
University of Rochester
Department of Political Science
Christian R. Grose
Lawrence University
Department of Government
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Paper prepared for delivery at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31.
Abstract:
This article answers the following question: Under what conditions are states more likely
to repeal disfranchisement provisions pertaining to the voting rights of persons convicted of a felony? We also address two broader questions: (1) Do parties seek electoral gain by changing the electoral system and voting laws? And (2) do parties override the ideological preferences of constituents in order to advance their electoral agenda? The answer to both questions is ‘yes’. We find that disfranchisement provisions are more likely to be repealed under a unified Democratic state government, but that states where electoral support for Democrats is generally weak are also more likely to repeal such provisions. We find no evidence that citizen ideology affects changes in voting rights. The implications of our analysis for students of parties and voting rights are clear: Rules are changed by those who stand to benefit, and parties matter at the state level.
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We would like to thank Chris Uggen and Angie Behrens for sharing their data and Poonam Kumar for assistance
with data collection. We also thank Yvette Alex-Assensoh and Kevin Clarke for helpful comments and suggestions on earlier drafts of the paper.
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Partisan Politics, Electoral Design, and the “Purity of the Ballot Box”: Felon and Ex-felon
Antoine Yoshinaka
University of Rochester
Department of Political Science
Christian R. Grose
Lawrence University
Department of Government
Please send comments to:
## email not listed ##
christian.## email not listed ##
Paper prepared for delivery at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28-31.
Abstract:
This article answers the following question: Under what conditions are states more likely
to repeal disfranchisement provisions pertaining to the voting rights of persons convicted of a
felony? We also address two broader questions: (1) Do parties seek electoral gain by changing
the electoral system and voting laws? And (2) do parties override the ideological preferences of
constituents in order to advance their electoral agenda? The answer to both questions is ‘yes’.
We find that disfranchisement provisions are more likely to be repealed under a unified
Democratic state government, but that states where electoral support for Democrats is generally
weak are also more likely to repeal such provisions. We find no evidence that citizen ideology
affects changes in voting rights. The implications of our analysis for students of parties and
voting rights are clear: Rules are changed by those who stand to benefit, and parties matter at the
state level.
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We would like to thank Chris Uggen and Angie Behrens for sharing their data and Poonam Kumar for assistance
with data collection. We also thank Yvette Alex-Assensoh and Kevin Clarke for helpful comments and suggestions
on earlier drafts of the paper.
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