caa a22 4500 386340943 CHVBK 20180307111750.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1962058 doi S0003055400085956 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1962058 Political Parties, Public Opinion, and State Policy in the United States [Elektronische Daten] When comparing states in the United States, one finds little correlation between state opinion and party control of the state legislature or between party control and state policy. Although these low correlations seeming to indicate that partisan politics is irrelevant to the representation process, the opposite is true. State opinion influences the ideological positions of state parties, and parties' responsiveness to state opinion helps to determine their electoral success. Moreover, parties move toward the center once in office. For these reasons, state electoral politics is largely responsible for the correlation between state opinion and state policy. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 Erikson Robert S. University of Houston Wright Gerald C. Indiana University McIver John P. University of Colorado American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/3(1989-09), 729-750 0003-0554 83:3<729 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1962058 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1962058 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Erikson Robert S. University of Houston NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wright Gerald C. Indiana University NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- McIver John P. University of Colorado NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/3(1989-09), 729-750 0003-0554 83:3<729 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge