Download or read book Party Constituency and Congressional Voting written by W. Wayne Shannon and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1981 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dimensions of Congressional Voting written by Duncan MacRae and published by Octagon Press, Limited. This book was released on 1976 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Constituencies and Leaders in Congress written by John Edgar Jackson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 years 1961 to 1963, the author is able to give us answers far beyond any we have had before, and some rather surprising ones at that. Constituencies played a different, but more important role in senators' voting than earlier studies have shown. Senators appeared to be responding both to the opinion held by their constituents on different issues and to the intensity with which these opinions were held. On the interrelation of constituencies and party, Mr. Jackson finds that Republicans and southern Democrats were particularly influenced by their voters. The clearest cases of leadership influence were among the non-southern members of the Democratic Party. Western Republicans, on the other hand, rejected the leadership of party members for that of committee leaders. Finally, on Presidential leadership, Mr. Jackson shows that John F. Kennedy influenced senators only during the first two years of his administration. All of these findings challenge conventional wisdom and are bound to influence future work in legislative behavior.
Download or read book Congressman Constituents and Contributors written by James B. Kau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sense, this book might seem like a strange undertaking for two economists. The material seems to be much closer to political science than to economics; our topic is the determinants of congressional voting. Legislatures and roll call voting are traditionally in the domain of political science. This introduction is intended to explain why we have found this book worth writing. Today the economy functions in a regulated framework. Whether or not there ever was a "golden age" of laissez faire capitalism is an issue for historians; such an age does not now exist. One implication of the high degree of politicization of the modern economy is that one cannot any longer study economics divorced from politics. The rise to prominence of the field of public choice is one strong piece of evidence about what many economists see as the significant influence of the political sector over what would seem to be purely economic variables. A more homey example may also be used to il lustrate the phenomenon of increased politicization of the economy. All economists have had the experience of lecturing on the unemployment creating effects of a minimum wage or on the shortage-creating implications of price controls, only to have a student ask: "But if that is so, why do we have those laws?" One way of viewing this book is as an attempt to answer that question.
Download or read book Party and Constituency written by Julius Turner and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressmen s Voting Decisions written by John W. Kingdon and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the process by which members of Congress arrive at roll call voting decisions
Download or read book Party and Constituency written by Julius Turner and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Relation of Constituency and Electoral Competition to Congressional Party Voting in Three Midwestern States 1957 1960 written by Suzanne Murray and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislative Voting and Accountability written by John M. Carey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legislatures are the core representative institutions in modern democracies. Citizens want legislatures to be decisive, and they want accountability, but they are frequently disillusioned with the representation legislators deliver. Political parties can provide decisiveness in legislatures, and they may provide collective accountability, but citizens and political reformers frequently demand another type of accountability from legislators – at the individual level. Can legislatures provide both kinds of accountability? This book considers what collective and individual accountability require and provides the most extensive cross-national analysis of legislative voting undertaken to date. It illustrates the balance between individualistic and collective representation in democracies, and how party unity in legislative voting shapes that balance. In addition to quantitative analysis of voting patterns, the book draws on extensive field and archival research to provide an extensive assessment of legislative transparency throughout the Americas.
Download or read book Party Lines written by Thomas E. Mann and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2008-05-31 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legitimacy of the American electoral system depends on sustaining reasonable levels of fairness, accountability, responsiveness, and common sense. Recent Congressional elections fly in the face of those requirements, however, with a startling lack of competition, growing ideological polarization, and a fierce struggle between the parties to manipulate the electoral rules of the game. Party Lines addresses these problems head on in an authoritative and timely analysis of redistricting in the United States. The practice of state legislatures redrawing district lines after the decennial census has long been a controversial aspect of our governing system. Recent developments have added new urgency to earlier debates. The sorry spectacle of mid-decade partisan gerrymandering in Texas renewed public attention to the potential problems of redistricting, reinforcing the view that it is unfairly dominated by self-serving elected officials and parties. The perfunctory character of Congressional elections is another growing problem—in 2002, only four House incumbents were defeated in the general election, the lowest in American history. Despite a hotly contested presidential contest in 2004, that number increased by only three. In Pa rty Lines, eminent political analysts explain the legal and political history of redistricting since the one person–one vote revolution in the 1960s and place it in the larger context of American politics. The authors document the impact of redistricting on competition, polarization, and partisan fairness, and they assess the role technology played in the redistricting process. The final chapter analyzes options for reform, including most importantly the use of independent redistricting commissions as an alternative to the normal state legislative process. Redistricting reform is no panacea but it is a start toward ensuring that American voters still have the largest say in who will represent them. Contributors include Micah
Download or read book Time is on Their Side written by Emily K. Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The divisive political climate in Congress in recent decades has been the subject of much scholarship in political science and commentary in the political media. Given the polarized nature of Congress, it is important to advance our understanding of both variation in trends in congressional party voting and constituents' reactions to party voting over the course of a congressional member's (MC's) career. The goal of this dissertation is to explore the dynamic relationship between representatives and their constituents through three investigations of party voting. My specific focus is on temporal dynamics, that is, the role that various conceptualizations of "time" play in shaping congressional party voting and constituents, reactions to loyal party voting. The dissertation consists of three empirical investigations. The first explores the question, "legislators significantly alter their party voting habits throughout their careers" Here, I consider time as the MC's tenure in office, and so I model how party voting changes over the course of legislative careers. A second research question emerges: "How does faithful party voting influence constituent support over the span of a legislator's career?" While the first section of my research analyzes congressional voting behavior, the second part focuses on constituents and how they are influenced by MC's party voting. In order to address the second research question, I consider time in two ways. The first is by exploring the extent to which seniority - whether a MC is newly elected or if he or she has spent several terms in office- has an impact on constituents' reactions to party voting information. The second is by observing the formation of impressions of representatives in real time. The dissertation research methodology consists of a triangulation of experimental, survey, and congressional data analyses. First, congressional party voting data over a period of twenty-eight years are analyzed using fixed-effects regression analyses in Study 1. Second, survey data from the American National Election Studies are merged with congressional data to assess the influence of party voting and congressional seniority on constituents' opinions in Study 2. Finally, impression formation is carefully monitored in two longitudinal experiments in Study 3. I find that seniority influences party voting for all House members, with MCs engaging in more party voting as their tenure in the House lengthens. The results of the impact of congressional party voting on constituent evaluations are mixed. The survey data show that party voting has an overall negative effect on evaluations of MCs, but that effect is stronger for more senior MCs and weaker for junior MCs. However, some of the experimental results indicate that in-partisans react more positively to loyal party voting than moderate party voting. A consistent finding in the dissertation is that out-partisans dislike loyal party voting more than in-partisans favor it. The experimental results yield mixed support for the hypothesis that party voting information will have a greater impact on evaluations when that information is received at the beginning of the impression formation process. The dissertation has implications for our understanding of congressional careers and how constituent impressions of MCs are formed. More broadly, the dissertation enriches our general understanding of representation and the representative-constituent relationship.
Download or read book Congressional Primaries and the Politics of Representation written by Peter F. Galderisi and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congressional Primaries and the Politics of Representation explores the ways in which congressional primary elections appear to be changing in the face of electoral and congressional politics. The prominent contributors examine how primary elections influence the types of candidates who run, the support they receive, the positions they take, the resources they spend, the media coverage they receive, and the type of party nominees that prevail. All of these factors have significant implications for congressional general elections, the political parties, interest groups, and the day-to-day representation of constituents by congressional incumbents.
Download or read book Party Constituency and Congressional Voting written by William Wayne Shannon and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book State Party and Congressional Party written by Carolyn L. Ball and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Representatives Roll Calls and Constituencies written by Morris P. Fiorina and published by Lexington, Mass : Lexington Books. This book was released on 1974 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressmen and Their Constituencies written by Lewis A. Froman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1974-10-25 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congressmen and their Constituencies written by Lewis A. Froman JR. and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
