Party, Constituency, and Congressional Voting
Author : W. Wayne Shannon
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : W. Wayne Shannon
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,68 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : James B. Kau
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9401711399
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.
Author : Duncan MacRae
Publisher : Octagon Press, Limited
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,89 MB
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN :
Author : John Edgar Jackson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 18,71 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674165403
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.
Author : John W. Kingdon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472064014
A study of the process by which members of Congress arrive at roll call voting decisions
Author : Julius Turner
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 12,18 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Julius Turner
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 21,32 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Legislators
ISBN :
Author : John M. Carey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,99 MB
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139476793
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.
Author : Lewis A. Froman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 1974-10-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
Author : Lewis A. Froman JR.
Publisher :
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 23,67 MB
Release : 1965
Category :
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