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Ideology and Interests in Congressional Voting: The Politics of Abortion in the U.S. Senate

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  • Brady, David
  • Schwartz, Edward P

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Many studies suggest that personal ideology accounts for much more of congressional voting behavior than does attention to the desires of the electorate. There are two main explanations given for this seemingly robust conclusion: (1) poor measures of constituency preferences compared to those for ideology or behavior, and (2) representatives 'shirk' on an inattentive electorate. We argue that existing studies have been biased against the 'interest' explanation by ignoring the structure of American Congressional elections, in particular the party primary process. Correcting for the party primary effect, we show, within the context of abortion politics, that constituency interests possess greater explanatory power than previous models would suggest. Copyright 1995 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Brady, David & Schwartz, Edward P, 1995. "Ideology and Interests in Congressional Voting: The Politics of Abortion in the U.S. Senate," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 84(1-2), pages 25-48, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:84:y:1995:i:1-2:p:25-48
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    1. Sean Gailmard & Jeffery A. Jenkins, 2018. "Distributive politics and congressional voting: public lands reform in the Jacksonian era," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 175(3), pages 259-275, June.
    2. Neil Longley, 1999. "Voting on Abortion in the House of Commons: A Test for Legislator Shirking," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 25(4), pages 503-521, December.
    3. Gould, Eric D. & Klor, Esteban F., 2019. "Party hacks and true believers: The effect of party affiliation on political preferences," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(3), pages 504-524.
    4. Peter A. Zaleski & Penny Maier Donati, 2000. "Tort Reform Voting in the U.S. Senate," Public Finance Review, , vol. 28(5), pages 415-427, September.
    5. Neil Longley, 2011. "Congressional complicity in the baseball antitrust exemption: analysing senate voting patterns," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(10), pages 945-947.

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