| Table 6: Hypothesis Test Results with Various Measures of State Initiative Process | |||||||||||
| Pure | Pure | ||||||||||
| Init & Ref | initiative | Legisl. | Qualify | Avg. annual | |||||||
| dummy | dummy | insulation | difficulty | Use | |||||||
| Campaign Finance Policy | b | p | b | p | b | p | b | p | b | p | |
| Ltd labor contributions | 0.17 | .35 | 0.33 | .10 | -0.005 | .11 | -0.05 | .08 | 0.15 | .01 | |
| Ltd. party contributions | 0.43 | .01 | 0.58 | .00 | -0.008 | .00 | -0.07 | .00 | 0.14 | .01 | |
| Ltd. corporate contributions | 0.14 | .42 | 0.25 | .18 | -0.006 | .06 | -0.04 | .08 | 0.14 | .01 | |
| Index of contrib. Regs. | 0.96 | .32 | 2.19 | .04 | -0.37 | .04 | -0.29 | .04 | 0.90 | .00 | |
| Abortion Policy | |||||||||||
| Restrictiveness index* | -5.02 | .90 | -0.89 | .90 | -2.43 | .41 | 6.76 | .01 | -15.95 | .10 | |
| Internal Political Efficacy | |||||||||||
| Better informed than others | 0.02 | .73 | 0.04 | .62 | -0.004 | .71 | -0.005 | .56 | 0.0014 | .05 | |
| More qualified to participate | 0.18 | .03 | 0.18 | .06 | -0.029 | .00 | -0.025 | .00 | 0.0017 | .01 | |
| Politics not complicated | 0.12 | .80 | 0.04 | .46 | -0.009 | .43 | -0.007 | .44 | 0.0015 | .01 | |
| Internal effic. Index | 0.35 | .19 | 0.36 | .22 | -0.05 | .12 | -0.049 | .09 | 0.0056 | .01 | |
| External Political Efficacy | |||||||||||
| Officials don't care | 0.01 | .87 | 0.01 | .91 | -0.003 | .79 | -0.003 | .07 | 0.0012 | .05 | |
| Have no say | 0.09 | .35 | 0.14 | .17 | -0.028 | .03 | -0.02 | .08 | 0.0022 | .01 | |
| External effic. Index | 0.08 | .53 | 0.15 | .27 | -0.032 | .05 | -0.023 | .11 | 0.0026 | .01 | |
| Cell entries are OLS coefficients from multivariate models. Coefficients for control variables omitted. | |||||||||||
| p = probability of b, two-tail test. | |||||||||||
| *coefficients here are from the relevant interaction terms | |||||||||||