Congressional leadership 1965-96 : a new look at the extremism versus centrality debate
Grofman, B and Koetzle, W and McGann, AJ (2002) Congressional leadership 1965-96 : a new look at the extremism versus centrality debate. Legislative Studies Quarterly, 27 (1). pp. 87-105. ISSN 0362-9805 (http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598520)
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An examination of the differences between the ideological positions of leaders and other members in the U.S. House of Representatives (1965-96) demonstrates that Republican leaders tend to be significantly to the right of the median Republican member and Democratic leaders tend to be significantly to the left of the median Democratic member. Furthermore, leaders from both parties tend to be ideologically located near the mode of their party's ideological distribution. These empirical results have implications for issues such as party polarization, conditional party government, and the possibility of separating out party and ideology.
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Item type: Article ID code: 44638 Dates: DateEventFebruary 2002PublishedSubjects: Political Science > Political institutions (United States) Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Government and Public Policy > Politics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 28 Aug 2013 14:39 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 10:27 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/44638