{"id":210,"date":"2019-02-20T15:44:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics\/?p=210"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:46:55","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:46:55","slug":"is-partisanship-eclipsing-all-else","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/is-partisanship-eclipsing-all-else\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Partisanship Eclipsing All Else?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s readings are topically distinct,\u00a0focusing on the process of border militarization, racial construction, and explaining floor votes, respectively. One thread\u00a0I&#8217;ve noticed through this week, though, is that there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a\u00a0direct line from voter preferences to Congressional floor votes to real-world outcomes;\u00a0partisan politics and industry lobbying seem more relevant\u00a0when explaining outcomes.\u00a0<span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><span class=\"mceItemHiddenSpellWord\">Casellas<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><span class=\"mceItemHiddenSpellWord\">Leal<\/span><\/span>\u00a0(2013) find party to be the best explainer, and\u00a0Massey&#8217;s\u00a0article (and lecture) suggest[s] the prison-industrial complex may have had more influence on border policy than a careful analysis of the expected outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>This\u00a0<span class=\"mceItemHidden\"><span class=\"mceItemHiddenSpellWord\">FiveThirtyEight<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/trump-is-losing-the-legal-fight-against-sanctuary-cities-but-it-may-still-pay-off-politically\/\">article<\/a>\u00a0from today (Wednesday) discusses the Trump Administration&#8217;s legal battles with the courts over sanctuary cities. The main point is that it is still politically advantageous for the President to fight losing policy battles because such fights\u00a0are a signal to his base. The article details other\u00a0occasions where this calculus has played out.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking about political battles this way puts the whole border wall battle in a new perspective for me, and makes me wonder: is it all about signaling? (This applies for both parties.) More generally, under a paradigm where partisanship dominates floor votes (suggesting issues all cluster together), where is the line from constituents&#8217; preferences to\u00a0Congressional votes? How can we disentangle the various mechanisms in such a polarized environment?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s readings are topically distinct,\u00a0focusing on the process of border militarization, racial construction, and explaining floor votes, respectively. One thread\u00a0I&#8217;ve noticed through this week, though, is that there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a\u00a0direct line from voter preferences to Congressional floor votes to real-world outcomes;\u00a0partisan politics and industry lobbying seem more relevant\u00a0when explaining outcomes.\u00a0Casellas\u00a0and\u00a0Leal\u00a0(2013) find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1131,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-1","category-news-wk3","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.princeton.edu\/immigrationpolitics-2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}