Date of Award
11-19-2008
Degree Type
Closed Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Dr. Scott Graves - Chair
Second Advisor
Dr. Robert Howard
Third Advisor
Dr. Richard Engstrom
Abstract
Traditional analyses of agency output are typically performed at the institutional level, characterizing the agency in question as a unitary actor with a singular preference. I test these assumptions using a variety of statistical methods, including a dynamic linear model that estimates ideal points of FCC commissioners for every year, 1975-2000. Voting within the FCC is essentially unidimensional and commissioner preferences are stable over time. Aggregate analyses of the ideal points of individual commissioners suggest that FCC commissioner voting has become profoundly ideological only recently. Future agency research must carefully consider the time period of analysis and previous findings should be reexamined.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.57709/1059872
Recommended Citation
Hurst, Eric Demian, "Opening the Black Box of Agency Behavior: Dimensionality and Stability of FCC Commissioner Voting." Dissertation, Georgia State University, 2008.
doi: https://doi.org/10.57709/1059872