Index
| Abelson, Robert P., 52 |
| African Americans | appointed school boards and, 102–6, 149 | | descriptive representation and, creation of
graphics illustrating, 173–77 | | disenfranchisement of through at-large
elections, 90–94, 149 | | election to school boards, electoral rules
and, 86–88 | | minority representation after electoral
reform, 95–100 | | minority representation and policy
responsiveness, 100–101, 108–9 | | support for educational spending, 41–43, 51 See alsorace |
|
| age | the elderly (see elderly citizens) | | support for educational spending and,
38–41, 51, 131–32, 149–50 | | aggregation method |
|
| augmented with demographic data, 163–65 | estimation of state-level public opinion by,
53, 59, 163–65 | | reliability of, 62n.3 |
|
| Alabama, 39, 69, 115 |
| Alaska, 64, 82n.1 |
| American Federation of Teachers (AFT), 113. | See also teachers' unions |
|
| Antifederalists, xvii |
| Arizona, 1, 51, 140 |
| Arkansas, 140 |
| Arrington, Theodore S., 110n.8 |
| Bafumi, Joseph, 164–65 |
| Banfield, Edward C., 90 |
| Bergstrom, Theodore C., 42 |
| blacks. See African Americans |
| Bledsoe, Timothy, 90, 94, 109, 111n.15 |
| Bowen, Howard, 84n.15 |
| Brace, Paul, 53 |
| Brennan, William, 111n.10 |
| Brokaw, Alan J., 140 |
| Brouillette, Matthew J., 155–56 |
| Bryan, Frank M., 66, 71, 76 |
| Burtless, Gary, 28 |
| Button, James W., 143n.2 |
| California | black/white gap in support for educational
spending, 51 | | citizen budget power, absence of, 69
funding inequities in education, Serano
decision regarding, 19–20 | | the generation gap in opinion polls in,
39–40 | | Los Angeles public school system, 1
Proposition 13 and the Serano decision, 27 |
|
| Chew, Kenneth S. Y., 42–43 |
| citizen budget power | in dependent school districts, policy
responsiveness and, 77–79 | | in independent school districts, policy
responsiveness and, 79–80 | | mechanisms of in school districts, 68–72 | | policy responsiveness and mechanisms
of, 72–77, 80–82 | | See also direct democracy |
|
| citizens | participation in public school governance,
question of, 4–5 | | policy outcomes and preferences of (see
policy responsiveness) | | types of, 10 | | See also democracy |
|
| civil rights movement, the, 4, 88–94 |
| collective bargaining laws, 127n.1 |
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Book title: Ten Thousand Democracies: Politics and Public Opinion in America's School Districts.
Contributors: Michael B. Berkman - Author, Eric Plutzer - Author.
Publisher: Georgetown University Press.
Place of publication: Washington, DC.
Publication year: 2005.
Page number: 199.
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