Comment on Carson and Oppenheimer (Vol. 78, March 1984, pp. 163-178).

The article presents the author's views in response to an article on the use of voting indices for measuring the personal ideology of congressmen, in the March 1984 issue. According to the author, voting-based indices reflect personal ideology, and the political party of the person. The author says that there is a confusion between public and personal policy, but personal ideology is correlated with public behavior.