Partisan responsiveness in the US House of Representatives, 1997-2005

In this paper, I develop and test a new theory of partisan responsiveness. The theory suggests that members of Congress will be most responsive to the average same-party voter compared with the average voter on high polarization-low salience issues and most responsive to the average voter compare...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McAndrews, John R
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31594