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Dimensions, issues, and bills: Appropriations voting on the house floor
Abstract
One of the fundamental findings in the congressional literature is that one or sometimes
two dimensions can successfully describe roll-call voting. In this paper we investigate
if we can reach the same conclusions about low dimensionality when we divide the roll-call
agenda into subsets of relatively homogeneous subject matter. We are primarily interested
in the degree to which the same ordering of representatives is yielded across these
different groups of votes. To conduct our analysis we focus on all roll calls on the
13 annual appropriations bills across eight congresses. When we concentrate on these
smaller issue areas, we find that voting is multidimensional and members do not vote
in a consistent ideological fashion across all issue areas. Copyright © Southern Political
Science Association 2010.
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https://hdl.handle.net/10161/4470Published Version (Please cite this version)
10.1017/S0022381610000472Publication Info
Crespin, MH; & Rohde, DW (2010). Dimensions, issues, and bills: Appropriations voting on the house floor. Journal of Politics, 72(4). pp. 976-989. 10.1017/S0022381610000472. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/4470.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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David W. Rohde
Ernestine Friedl Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Political Science
David W. Rohde, Ernestine Friedl Professor of Political Science at Duke University
and Director of the Political Institutions and Public Choice Program. He has researched
various aspects of American national politics, including the Congress, the presidency,
the Supreme Court, and presidential and congressional elections. Rohde has been editor
of the American Journal of Political Science (1988-1990), and chair of the Legislative
Studies Section of the American Political Science Association (1991

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