Ori Rattner
Pronouns: He/Him/His
UROP Fellowship: University of Michigan Energy Institute
Research Mentor(s): Sarah Mills, PhD
Ford School of Public Policy
Presentation Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 | Session 2 | Presenter: 2
Authors: Ori Rattner
Abstract
United States national political party platforms have been published for every presidential election cycle since the early to mid 19th century. The format, content, and significance of this platform has changed greatly over the course of the past couple centuries. In more recent presidential election cycles, especially since both parties reformed the principal method of winning delegates at the convention to primaries and open caucuses, the party platform has become more of a symbolic set of positions that tends to reflect the views of the presidential candidate from a given party on issues of concern to voters (Mann, 2000). Due to the current significance that party platforms hold, they are good barometers for how an elected official, especially the president, from a given political party will address those areas if elected. This research analyzes the content of national party platforms with regards to energy policy in order to attempt to assess the degree to which positions in national party platforms have translated into federal energy policy implementation over the last half century. Using a keyword search based content analysis approach, this paper analyzes the level to which language used in the energy policy related portions of the Democratic and Republican party platforms since 1972 have diffused into congressional documents and presidential documents since 1994. The results demonstrate the various energy policy positions that each party chose to endorse every presidential election cycle since 1972 and the level to which language from these positions reached proposed, amended, and passed congressional legislation, as well as presidential determinations, memorandums, notices, proclamations, orders, and executive orders.
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Social Sciences, Environmental Studies
