Constituencies and Leaders in Congress : : Their Effects on Senate Voting Behavior / / John E. Jackson.
This study may be the most sophisticated statistical study of legislative voting now in print. The author asks why legislators, especially U.S. senators, vote as they do. Are they influenced by their constituencies, party, committee leaders, the President? By taking a relatively short time span, the...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013] ©1974 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard Political Studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Tables
- 1. Legislative Behavior and the Determinants of Public Policy
- 2. A Model of Legislative Voting Behavior
- 3. Measuring Senate Voting Behavior
- 4. Voting Behavior of Individual Senators
- 5. Estimates of 1963 Voting Behavior: A Test of the Models
- 6. Voting Behavior on Specific Legislation
- 7. Constituencies, Leaders, and Public Policy
- Appendixes, Notes, Index
- Appendix A. The Development of the Constituency Variables
- Appendix Β. Problems of Guttman Scaling, Functional Form, and Coefficient Estimation
- Notes
- Index
- Backmatter