An Examination Of Constituency And Its Relationship To Roll Call Voting Behavior In The U S House Of Representatives
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An Examination Of Constituency And Its Relationship To Roll Call Voting Behavior In The U S House Of Representatives
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Author : Ruth Eveland Velleman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
An Examination Of Constituency And Its Relationship To Roll Call Voting Behavior In The U S House Of Representatives written by Ruth Eveland Velleman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Legislative bodies categories.
Party Constituency And Congressional Voting
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Author : W. Wayne Shannon
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1981
Party Constituency And Congressional Voting written by W. Wayne Shannon and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with History categories.
Constituencies And Roll Call Voting
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Author : Jack R. Van Der Slik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Constituencies And Roll Call Voting written by Jack R. Van Der Slik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with categories.
Representatives Roll Calls And Constituencies
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Author : Morris P. Fiorina
language : en
Publisher: Lexington, Mass : Lexington Books
Release Date : 1974
Representatives Roll Calls And Constituencies written by Morris P. Fiorina and has been published by Lexington, Mass : Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Political Science categories.
Multiple Representation
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Author : Ruoxi Li
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Multiple Representation written by Ruoxi Li and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
This dissertation project explores how elected legislators appease different segments of society when confronted with conflicts of interests. I demonstrate that legislators tailor their actions based on different levels of constituency issue attention, respond to multiple interests by behaving strategically across different stages of the legislative process, thus position themselves in the most favorable light. Findings from this project have implications for legislative representation, interest group politics, and political engagement. Specifically, the dissertation takes the format of three papers and tackles the research topic from three distinct and relevant angles. The first paper focuses on the effect of constituency issue attention on legislative behavior, including bill sponsorship, floor debate, and roll call votes. I argue that, when constituencies pay more attention to a particular policy issue, legislators are likely to be more diligent by participating more in the legislative process, and more responsive by better reflecting district preference in their roll call votes. Using the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES) data which directly measure congressional district-level constituency attention, I find that, as expected, legislators increase their levels of legislative activities when constituencies show higher level of attentiveness to a particular issue; yet contrary to expectation, legislators do not become more responsive in their roll call votes when constituency pay more attention. In the second paper, I take a nuanced look at congressional representation by examining how constituencies, sub-constituencies, and interest groups influence bill co-sponsorship, floor debate, and final votes. With a formal model explaining the mechanism through which voters and interest groups influence legislators' behavior, I propose a multiple representation theory that argues 1) the general geographic constituency is represented through legislative voting decisions, 2) the engaged sub-constituencies and organized groups are represented through non-voting activities such as co-sponsorship and floor debate. Focusing on the House of Representatives, I include in the data direct measures of public opinion (CCES, 2006-2008), interest group contributions, and legislative activities including an original dataset for floor debate participation. I find that the geographic constituency has a strong effect on voting decisions yet very limited effect on co-sponsorship or floor debate. It is interest group membership and PAC donations that affect co-sponsorship and debate. This multiple representation pattern is found on almost all of the domestic issues. On international issues such as trade policies, representatives' partisan affiliation and ideology are the most influential factors; constituencies, sub-constituencies, and interest groups are of secondary importance. The third paper studies representation in the Senate. I begin by applying the multiple representation theory in the context of senatorial politics and examining the same ten policy issues. The results suggest that while there are important similarities between representation in the Senate and that in the House, there are also significant differences. The most important difference is that there is not a multiple representation pattern in the Senate. Senators appear to be unresponsive to the geographic constituencies. To understand the senators' seeming unrepresentativeness, I take into consideration the senate's electoral and institutional features and hypothesize that state size, heterogeneity, and senate election cycles play a mediating role. The results suggest that senators' longer term is partially responsible for the unresponsiveness. Senators facing immediate re-election are in fact highly responsive to the geographic constituency, but the rest of the senators are not. This contrast between the House and the Senate on responsiveness clarifies the mechanism of legislative accountability: responsiveness is closely related to the electoral pressure from imminent re-elections, as observed in the behavior among House representatives and senators who were in the last two years of their terms; when the electoral pressure was not an immediate concern, other considerations such as partisanship and ideology take priority, as observed in the behavior among senators who were in the earlier years of their terms.
The Influence Of Political And Socioeconomic Variables On Roll Call Votes
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Author : Donald Louis Diffenbaugh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Influence Of Political And Socioeconomic Variables On Roll Call Votes written by Donald Louis Diffenbaugh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Legislators categories.
Party And Constituency Influence On Procedural And Final Passage Voting In The U S House
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Author : Stephen Jessee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Party And Constituency Influence On Procedural And Final Passage Voting In The U S House written by Stephen Jessee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
Most analyses of congressional voting, whether theoretical or empirical, treat all roll call votes in the same way. We argue that such approaches mask considerable variation in voting behavior across different categories of votes. An examination of all recorded roll call votes in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2008 reveals that members' voting behavior on procedural and final passage matters have become increasingly differentiated. We show that party has become increasingly important relative to constituency in dictating members' voting behavior, especially on procedural votes. These trends can account for much of the partisan polarization that has occurred during this time period.
A Longitudinal Analysis Of Legislative Roll Call Voting
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Author : Robert Elden Esterly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1971
A Longitudinal Analysis Of Legislative Roll Call Voting written by Robert Elden Esterly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with categories.
The Influence Of State Party Delegations On Roll Call Voting In The United States House Of Representatives
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Author : Richard Jules Born
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
The Influence Of State Party Delegations On Roll Call Voting In The United States House Of Representatives written by Richard Jules Born and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.
Constituency Influence In Congress
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Author : Warren E. Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993-08-01
Constituency Influence In Congress written by Warren E. Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-08-01 with categories.