Ideology and Congress
Subtitle: a Political Economic History of Roll Call Voting
By: Howard Rosenthal
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9780203789223
Subjects: Voting; History; Ideology; Pressure groups; Idéologie; Histoire; Voting registers; United States. Congress; United States
Description: "In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes in 1789. By tracing the voting patterns of Congress throughout the country's history, the authors find that, despite a wide array of issues facing legislators, over 81 percent of their voting decisions can be attributed to a consistent ideological position ranging from ultraconservatism to ultraliberalism. In their classic 1997 volume, Congress: A Political Economic History of Roll Call Voting, roll call voting became the framework for a novel interpretation of important episodes in American political and economic history. Congress demonstrated that roll call voting has a very simple structure and that, for most of American history, roll call voting patterns have maintained a core stability based on two great issues: the extent of government regulation of, and intervention in, the economy; and race. In this new, paperback volume, the authors include nineteen years of additional data, bringing in the period from 1986 through 2004"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Introduction: The Liberal/Conservative Structure; title: chapter 2 The Spatial Model and Congressional Voting; title: chapter 3 The Spatial Model: Accuracy and Dimensionality; title: chapter 4 The Spatial Model: Stability, Replacement, and Polarization; title: chapter 5 Party Realignment in Congress; title: chapter 6 Issues, Constituent Interests, and the Basic Space; title: chapter 7 Sophisticated Voting and Agenda Manipulation; title: chapter 8 Roll Call Voting and Interest Group Ratings; title: chapter 9 Committees and Roll Calls; title: chapter 10 Abstention from Roll Call Voting; title: chapter 11 The NOMINATE Literature; title: chapter 12 The Unidimensional Congress.