{"id":528,"date":"2022-03-22T13:13:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T20:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/?page_id=528"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:31:24","slug":"conference-papers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/conference-papers\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Papers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wsu-row wsu-row--single\" >\r\n    \n<div class=\"wsu-column\"  style=\"\">\r\n\t\n\n<ul>\n<li>Lovrich, N., Benjamin, F., Pierce, J., &amp; Schreckhise, W. (2022). Lobbyists&#8217; Views on Civil Discourse and Institutional Gridlock: Results from a National Survey of State Legislative Lobbyists and Public Agency Legislative Liaison Officers. Paper prepared for presentation at the 2022 annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 7-10. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kettler, J., Fowler, L., &amp; Witt, S. (2022). Gender, Lobbying, and Civility in Statehouses. Paper prepared for presentation at the 2022 annual meeting of the Western Social Science Association, Denver, Colorado, March 30 &#8211; April 2. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Benjamin, F., Lovrich, N., Pierce, J., &amp; Schreckhise, W. (2022). OUTSIDE LOOKING IN: Lobbyists\u2019 Views on Civil Discourse in U.S. State Legislatures. Paper presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon, March 8-13.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Western Social Science Association, Annual Meeting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>2022 &#8211; Denver, CO (Friday, Apr 1, 2022)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">State Legislative Lobbyists&#8217; Views on Civil Discourse in US State Legislatures: Has Congressional Incivility Permeated US State Legislatures?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Authors: <\/strong>Stephanie Witt; Francis Benjamin; Nicholas Lovrich; Steven Stehr<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The recent advent of gridlock and hyper-partisanship in the United States Congress has raised questions about whether similar divides are occurring in state governments, and if so, why? Using data gathered throughout 2018 and 2019 from a survey of registered lobbyists and public agency liaison officers in all 50 states, we investigate the extent that incivility and polarization has come to characterize state legislatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2020 State Politics Conference &#8211; Cancelled due to COVID-19<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Burdett\u00a0Loomis and John Pierce (KU), &#8220;Non-profits and their unique perspective on the civility in legislative processes: Does Non-rent-seeking make a difference?&#8221;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>William Schreckheis (Univ. of Arkansas) and Francis Benjamin (WSU) on the connection between legislative professionalism and legislative civility &amp; quality of legislative deliberation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stephanie Witt, Luke Fowler, and Jaclyn Kettler, Boise State University. A partial replication of Fowler and Witt (<em>Publius 2019) <\/em>preemption of local government authority by state governments, using legislative civility score in multivariate model for explaining preemptive actions.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Christopher Simon (Utah) and Nicholas Lovrich (WSU), Political Culture, Historical Legacy, and Contemporary Levels of Civil Discourse in US State Legislatures.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":21849,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21849"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":620,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/528\/revisions\/620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/outside-looking-in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}