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Where You Sit is Where You Stand: The Impact of Seating Proximity on Legislative Cue-Taking

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  • Masket, Seth E.

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This article builds on Matthews and Stimson's (1975) study of legislative cuetaking, analyzing the extent to which legislators sitting next to each other influence each others' voting behavior. Data come from three decades of roll call votes in the California Assembly, a chamber in which each member is paired with a deskmate. By comparing deskmate pairs with nondeskmate pairs, I find that legislators vote identically to their deskmates on a sizeable subset of roll calls. This deskmate effect appears to remain strong even as a rival influence — legislative partisanship — increases in strength.

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  • Masket, Seth E., 2008. "Where You Sit is Where You Stand: The Impact of Seating Proximity on Legislative Cue-Taking," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, now publishers, vol. 3(3), pages 301-311, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:now:jlqjps:100.00007058
    DOI: 10.1561/100.00007058
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    1. Marco Battaglini & Eleonora Patacchini & Edoardo Rainone, 2019. "Endogenous Social Connections in Legislatures," NBER Working Papers 25988, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Nikolaj Harmon & Raymond Fisman & Emir Kamenica, 2018. "Peer Effects in Legislative Voting," Boston University - Department of Economics - Working Papers Series dp-304, Boston University - Department of Economics.
    3. Jäckle Sebastian & Metz Thomas, 2019. "Oral Questions in the European Parliament: A Network Analysis," Statistics, Politics and Policy, De Gruyter, vol. 10(2), pages 87-113, December.
    4. Marco Battaglini & Eleonora Patacchini, 2018. "Influencing Connected Legislators," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 126(6), pages 2277-2322.
    5. Nikolaj Harmon & Raymond Fisman & Emir Kamenica, 2019. "Peer Effects in Legislative Voting," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 11(4), pages 156-180, October.
    6. Garro, Haritz, 2020. "The Role of Connections in Congressional Lawmaking," SocArXiv efnrq, Center for Open Science.
    7. Saia, Alessandro, 2018. "Random interactions in the Chamber: Legislators' behavior and political distance," Journal of Public Economics, Elsevier, vol. 164(C), pages 225-240.
    8. Marco Battaglini & Valerio Leone Sciabolazza & Eleonora Patacchini, 2020. "Effectiveness of Connected Legislators," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 64(4), pages 739-756, October.
    9. Lauren Cohen & Christopher Malloy, 2010. "Friends in High Places," NBER Working Papers 16437, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    10. Janet M. Box‐Steffensmeier & Benjamin W. Campbell & Andrew W. Podob & Seth J. Walker, 2020. "I Get By with a Little Help from My Friends: Leveraging Campaign Resources to Maximize Congressional Power," American Journal of Political Science, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 64(4), pages 1017-1033, October.

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