Untangling the Sources of Congressional Partisanship: Ideology, Interests, and Opportunism.

Authors :: Lee, Frances E.
Source :: Conference Papers -- Midwestern Political Science Association. 2005 Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, p1-39. 39p. 3 Charts.
Publication Year :: 2005
Abstract: In order to disentangle the different sources of party cohesion, this paper seeks to account for variation in partisanship by reference to the substantive issues at stake in roll call votes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Subjects :: *PARTISANSHIP
*POLITICAL parties
*VOTING
*ELECTIONS
*LEGISLATIVE voting

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