Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Political Science, February 2017.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (pages 47-51).The Progressive movement presents a puzzle for analysts of Congress: a deeply divided Republican party that appears in roll calls as extremely unified and homogenous. Historical records and theories of Congress suggest that part of the answer lies in missing votes - legislators abstaining in order to reduce cross-pressure between their party and constituents, and the Speaker using quorum calls to exclude disloyal Republicans. Using imputation to "fill in" the missing vote data from the 60th House reveals that missing votes had the effect of concealing Repub...
We argue that the standard toolbox used in electoral studies to assess the bias and responsivene...
This paper aims at enriching the debate over the measurement of majority party influence in con-temp...
Theories of party power in Congress differ on the circumstances under which majority parties have th...
Though we know much about majority party agenda control in the House of Representatives during the “...
This dissertation attempts to expand our understanding of the most important political reform period...
The authors examine how institutional context affects political decision making in Congress by inves...
Much of the literature on partisan agenda setting in Congress focuses on the majority’s ability to e...
We disentangle constituent and partisan influences in Congress by taking advantage of a largely unex...
During the Progressive Era, between 1890 and 1920, a host of political parties emerged to challenge ...
by focusing on two key concepts: party homogeneity and party polarization. With a few notable except...
172 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999.In my dissertation, I utilize...
This dissertation, a collection of independent papers, explores the polarization of the United State...
This dataset contains a variety of measures that relate to party voting in the U.S. Congress. The da...
Under what conditions can a minority expect its rights to be limited by a majority? This dissertatio...
Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on August 23, 2010).The entir...
We argue that the standard toolbox used in electoral studies to assess the bias and responsivene...
This paper aims at enriching the debate over the measurement of majority party influence in con-temp...
Theories of party power in Congress differ on the circumstances under which majority parties have th...
Though we know much about majority party agenda control in the House of Representatives during the “...
This dissertation attempts to expand our understanding of the most important political reform period...
The authors examine how institutional context affects political decision making in Congress by inves...
Much of the literature on partisan agenda setting in Congress focuses on the majority’s ability to e...
We disentangle constituent and partisan influences in Congress by taking advantage of a largely unex...
During the Progressive Era, between 1890 and 1920, a host of political parties emerged to challenge ...
by focusing on two key concepts: party homogeneity and party polarization. With a few notable except...
172 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1999.In my dissertation, I utilize...
This dissertation, a collection of independent papers, explores the polarization of the United State...
This dataset contains a variety of measures that relate to party voting in the U.S. Congress. The da...
Under what conditions can a minority expect its rights to be limited by a majority? This dissertatio...
Title from PDF of title page (University of Missouri--Columbia, viewed on August 23, 2010).The entir...
We argue that the standard toolbox used in electoral studies to assess the bias and responsivene...
This paper aims at enriching the debate over the measurement of majority party influence in con-temp...
Theories of party power in Congress differ on the circumstances under which majority parties have th...
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