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Session Submission Type: Full Panel
Is voting administered fairly and evenly by the 50 American states? How legitimate is the signature-gathering process for placing referenda on the ballot? To what degree do factors like issue salience and contagion from neighboring states contribute to the representative relationship between public opinion and policy adoption? All of these questions speak to the legitimacy of representation. By answering these questions, these three papers speak to the quality of democracy in the 50 American states.
Control of the Ballot Box Through Voter ID Laws: A South/Non-South Comparison - Rick L. Travis, Mississippi State University; John C. Morris, Old Dominion University; David A. Breaux; Joseph A. Aistrup, Kansas State University; Kathleen Hale, Auburn University
How Salience and Partisan Control Contribute to Policy Feedback Cycles - Rebecca Bromley-Trujillo, University of Kentucky; John Poe
Inferring the Number of Valid Unique Signatures from Petitions for a Referendum - John E. Transue, University of Illinois - Springfield; Richard G. Schuldt, University of Illinois at Springfield; Xinrong Lei, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
State Policy Responsiveness and Interdependent Relationships - Desmond Wallace, University of Iowa