Are Voters’ Preferences Being Ignored in Governor’s Agendas?
Published online on February 19, 2026
Abstract
Political Research Quarterly, Volume 79, Issue 2, Page 587-604, June 2026.
States are partisan laboratories of democracy where policy is misaligned with constituency preferences. Yet governors are popular. To resolve this puzzle, we argue governors use aligned rhetoric to make up for out-of-step policymaking, and this alignment ...
States are partisan laboratories of democracy where policy is misaligned with constituency preferences. Yet governors are popular. To resolve this puzzle, we argue governors use aligned rhetoric to make up for out-of-step policymaking, and this alignment ...