The Electoral Impact of Congressional Roll Call Voting

This paper presents evidence that candidate issue positions have a measurable impact on elections for the US House of Representatives.

The Electoral Impact of Congressional Roll Call Voting - jstor

included in this analysis. The construction of the liberalism index employed is discussed in footnote 6. b For 1968, the Democratic presidential vote is ...

The Electoral Impact of Congressional Roll Call Voting - IDEAS/RePEc

Downloadable! This paper presents evidence that candidate issue positions have a measurable impact on elections for the U.S. House of Representatives.

Voters and Roll Call Voting: The Effect on Congressional Elections

The subject of this research is whether ideological preferences play a major role in explain- ing voters' refusal to reelect some members of the U.S. House ...

Electoral Accountability and Roll Call Voting in the U

To what extent can voting behavior and loyalty to one's party be a liability for incumbent legislators? While prior research on electoral accountability has ...

Voters and roll call voting: The effect on congressional elections

References. Campbell, Angus, Philip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes (1960).The American Voter. New York: ...

The Electoral Costs of Party Loyalty in Congress - UGA SPIA

To what extent is party loyalty a liability for incumbent legislators? Past research on legislative voting and elections suggests that voters punish members ...

Election means first test for changes to electoral vote process

Election experts expect the main law enacted in response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol to pass its first major test this year.

EVIDENCE FROM U.S. ROLL CALL VOTING RECORDS David S ...

By contrast, under partial policy convergence, a Democrat (Republican) victory in a close election has an additional impact on the observed voting pattern of ...

do voters affect or elect policies? evidence from the us house

To do so, we consider electoral races where a Democrat holds the seat—and hence an electoral advantage—and measure the roll-call voting records of the winners ...

Constituents' Responses to Congressional Roll-Call Voting

(1) Nearly all respondents have preferences over important bills before Congress. (2) Most constituents hold beliefs about their legislators' roll-call votes ...

Issue Accountability in U.S. House Elections - eScholarship

result, when Members of Congress (MCs) seek reelection, voters have the opportunity to vote on the basis of the positions their MCs have taken along with those ...

Counting Electoral Votes: An Overview of Procedures at the Joint ...

The Constitution and federal law establish a detailed timetable following the presidential election during which time the members of the electoral college ...

Gender and Roll Call Voting Behavior in Congress

The results show that in the contemporary Congress, gender exerts minimal influence on how legislators cast their votes with the exception of female Republican ...

Partisan Gerrymandering and the Political Process - DSpace@MIT

We first show that the partisan outcome of legislative elections has important causal effects on the ideological representation of individual districts, the ...

State elections, policy choices, and accountability

Since state legislators evidently care about reelection, voters may be able to influence the policy process by creating more electoral pressure on lawmakers ...

Electoral Backlash or Positive Reinforcement? Wind Power and ...

An instrumental variable analysis shows that wind turbine construction generated large electoral benefits for (prorenewables) Democratic candidates.

Policy and the structure of roll call voting in the US house

We find that bill topics and congressional committees are important for predicting roll call votes but that other variables, including member ideology, lack ...

How do voters matter? Evidence from US congressional redistricting

We take advantage of variation in the partisan composition of Congressional districts stemming from Census-initiated redistricting in the 1990's, 2000's, and ...

Effects of electoral margins on party loyalty in the roll call votes

In modern democratic politics, members of parliament (MPs) engage in legislative activities influenced by political parties and voters.