Representation in California's State Legislature John L. Korey, Political Science Calif State Polytechnic Univ, Pomona and JeDon Emenhiser, Gov't and Politics Humboldt State University

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Suggested Citation:

Korey, John and Emenhiser, JeDon, 1998. Representation in California's State Legislature. Unpublished Manuscript.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 -- Representation and Legislative Behavior

Introduction

Representation

California's Legislature

The Initiative in California

Chapter 2 -- Methodology

The Mean

Variance

Standard Deviation

Comparing Means

The Scatterplot

The Least Squares Equation

The Coefficient of Determination (Pearson's r2)

The Correlation Coefficient (Pearson's r)

Multiple Least Squares

Chapter 3 -- Analyzing Legislative Behavior

Legislative Behavior

Party Behavior

Interest Groups

Region or Area

Policy Issues

Exercises
 

District Ideology

District Partisanship

Election Outcomes

Member Characteristics

Member Voting Behavior

Exercises Using SPSS Graphics
 

Codebook

Bibliography