{"pk":46827,"title":"Political Influence in California","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this manuscript, we introduce a new measure of political influence in  California. Leveraging a new dataset of candidate rankings of their own  endorsements, we use the Bradley-Terry model to estimate influence for a  broad array of officeholders, interest groups, and endorsing  organizations who participate in California politics. We call this new  measure of influence \nClout\n scores. Our measure of a person’s clout\n \nis  based on how much candidates for office desire that individual’s  endorsement. Specifically, we measure a political actor’s clout by  estimating the extent to which that actor’s endorsement is preferred to a  baseline endorsement group. Our estimates provide an original,  empirically-grounded portrait of the distribution of political capital  in California and highlight which political elites have the greatest  capacity to swing election outcomes.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"Political Science, Elections, Political Parties, California Politics"}],"section":"Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2sk1f8hj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Matthew","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Atkinson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Long Beach City College","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Darin","middle_name":"","last_name":"DeWitt","name_suffix":"","institution":"California State University, Long Beach","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2017-10-31T18:28:16-04:00","date_accepted":"2017-10-31T18:28:16-04:00","date_published":"2017-10-31T23:07:31-04:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cjpp/article/46827/galley/35408/download/"}]}