Party and Policy in Lineland: A Theory of Conditional Party Cartels
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2024-02-21
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We have two goals in this paper. First, we provide a unified account of several prominent institutional theories of the Congress, but especially present a model that is consistent with both the Cox-McCubbins theory of party cartels (2005; 2007) and the Aldrich-Rohde theory of conditional party government (1997; 2000; Aldrich, 2011; Rohde, 1991). We hope to demonstrate that, while these two theories might have developed independently, together they offer a unified account. Second, we develop a model of elections that includes party provision of campaign resources to provide electoral incentives for Members of Congress to vote on the floor for special rules that reflect positions away from their district median and towards the median of their party in the chamber. In this way we offer a theory that includes specific internal and external accounts to explain a wider array of MC behavior on the floor and in elections.
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Aldrich, JH, GW Cox, MD McCubbins and DW Rohde (2024). Party and Policy in Lineland: A Theory of Conditional Party Cartels. Journal of Political Institutions and Political Economy, 4(4). pp. 479–495. 10.1561/113.00000085 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/34929.
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John Aldrich
The Pfizer-Pratt University Professor of Political Science, John Aldrich specializes in American politics and behavior, formal theory, and methodology.
Books he has authored or co-authored include Why Parties; Why Parties Matter; Before the Convention; Linear Probability, Logit and Probit Models; Interdisciplinarity: Its Role in a Discipline-based Academy and a series of books on elections, the most recent of which is Change and Continuity in the 2020 Elections.
His articles have appeared in the American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, Public Choice, and other journals and edited volumes.
He has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and has served as co-editor of the American Journal of Political Science and as a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has served as President of the Southern Political Science association, Midwest Political Science Association, and the American Political Science Association.
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