Jason M Roberts
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3628027 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jason M Roberts |
| PRENOMES | Jason M |
| SOBRENOME | Roberts |
| ASSINATURA | ROBERTS J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8113-1827 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 331 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Interpersonal Relationships, Bipartisanship, and January 6th
For a member of Congress to be a successful lawmaker, they must work collaboratively with their colleagues. Previous work has found that interpersonal relationships among lawmakers are a key predictor of legislative collaboration-particularly among members from opposing parties. In the wake of the events of January 6, 2021, many Democratic lawmakers claimed that their relationships with some of their Republican colleagues were irretrievably broke…
Interpersonal Relationships and Legislative Collaboration in Congress
Do interpersonal relationships among and between representatives and senators affect legislative collaboration in the contemporary Congress? The extant literature on Congress suggests interpersonal dimensions of life on Capitol Hill should play a minimal role in the legislative process. However, research in other fields, including psychology, finds that relationships are crucially important within organizations. In addition, many contemporary acc…
The Electoral Consequences of Roll Call Voting
The Whips
Obstruction and the Politics of Civilian Nominations
Conflict over presidential nominations has grown more acrimonious in recent decades. Senators have increasingly exploited their procedural prerogatives to block or delay nominations that they oppose. In this article, we utilize a newly collected dataset on holds placed by Republican senators to explore the usage and effect of obstructive tactics on nominations in the 100th to 104th Congresses (1987-1996). We find that nominees subject to a hold s…
The De-Institutionalization of Congress
THE FRAMERS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION designed the Congress as the most powerful branch of the new government. The institution was granted wide authority over crucial governmental functions such as taxing, spending, and war making. The Framers did not design the institution to be efficient, however. The two chambers were given differing electoral rules, and they diverge starkly in how seats are allocated to the several states.1 To make use of its …
Short-Term Goals and Long-Term Effects
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
America at the Ballot Box
As a political scientist who studies historical elections, I enthusiastically cheer the return of historians to political history, as demonstrated in these two volumes. Gareth Davies and Julian E. Zelizer's America at the Ballot Box is an impressive collection of essays that take readers into the issues, ideas, and personalities that shaped presidential election campaigns over the history of the Republic. In doing so the editors hope to refocus s…
The Cost of Majority‐Party Bias
All major legislation in the House necessitates a special rule from the Rules Committee before it can be brought to the chamber floor. These rules often strictly limit floor amendments to bills considered by the House. Scholars of political parties have argued that the House majority party can bias policy output away from the floor median through its usage of restrictive rules. In this article, we argue that in order to secure the passage of rest…
The Dimensionality of Congressional Voting Reconsidered
This article reports findings for a decomposition of the roll-call voting record of the U.S. Congress to determine the effect of the level of aggregation on the observed dimensionality of the policy space. In doing so, we identify some but certainly not all of the ways in which the aggregation of the voting record affects the observed dimensionality of the policy space. For the 1955 to 2008 period (84th-110th Congresses), we apply optimal classif…
The Politics of Obstruction
A defining feature of the modern US Senate is obstruction. Almost all pieces of legislation considered in the Senate are affected either directly or indirectly by obstruction. Obstruction takes many forms in the modern Senate, but one of the most prevalent, yet least studied, is the hold. Using a newly created dataset on Republican Senate holds, we cast light on this important practice. Our results suggest that a variety of factors including timi…
American Congress
American Congress Reader
The American Congress
The American Congress provides the most current treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, this book presents a crisp introduction to major features of Congress: parties and committee systems, leadership, voting and floor activity. This text contains discussions of the importance of presidents, courts and interest groups in congressional policy making. …
Beyond Ideology
The Development of Special Orders and Special Rules in the U.S. House, 1881–1937
The modern Committee on Rules plays a critical role in structuring the agenda of the U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, resolutions from the Committee on Rules are the primary means through which controversial legislation reaches the House floor. But the Committee on Rules did not play a role in shaping the floor agenda until the 1880s and, despite intense scrutiny of episodes such as the institution of the Reed rules and the revolt against …
Why Not Parties?
The American Congress Reader
The American Congress Reader provides a supplement to the popular and updated American Congress undergraduate textbook. By the same authors who drew upon Capitol Hill experience and nationally recognized scholarship to present a crisp introduction and analysis of Congress's inner mechanics, the Reader compiles the best relevant scholarship on party and committee systems, leadership, voting, and floor activity to broaden and illuminate the key fea…
The Statistical Analysis Of Roll‐Call Data
Roll‐call voting and congressional procedures are two of the most heavily studied aspects of the U.S. Congress. To date, little work has focused on the effect of procedures on the composition of the roll‐call record. This article takes a step in this direction by demonstrating the effect of chamber rules and institutional constraints on House and Senate roll‐call data, as well as on the inferences that scholars have drawn from the roll‐call recor…
Candidate Quality, the Personal Vote, and the Incumbency Advantage in Congress
Most political observers agree that incumbent legislators have a considerable advantage over nonincumbents in modern congressional elections. Yet there is still disagreement over the exact source of this advantage and the explanation for its growth over time. To address this debate we utilize a unique set of historical elections data to test for the presence of an incumbency advantage in late-nineteenth-century House elections (1872-1900). We fin…
Redistricting, Candidate Entry, and the Politics of Nineteenth‐Century U.S. House Elections
The effects of redistricting on candidate entry patterns in contemporary House races has received growing attention in the scholarly literature, yet virtually no consideration has been given to this question in the context of historical elections. This is unfortunate as the wider variation in congressional redistricting during the nineteenth century gives us increased leverage in terms of understanding strategic candidate behavior. Utilizing a ne…
Pivotal Politics, Presidential Capital, and Supreme Court Nominations
We analyze the Supreme Court nomination process in order to provide a general explanation of presidents' propensity to win confirmation battles even in the face of an ideologically hostile Senate. The analysis serves two purposes. First, we argue that employing the conventional measure of the Senate's power to constrain the president's choice of nominees–the median senator–provides an inaccurate picture of this process. In its stead we argue that…
Strategic Politicians and U.S. House Elections, 1874–1914
One of the most fundamental changes in post-World War II congressional elections has been the rise of candidate-centered campaigns. This phenomenon has given rise to considerable theoretical and empirical literature demonstrating the strategic behavior of congressional candidates. Yet very few scholars have assessed the effect or existence of strategic candidate behavior for the pre-World War II era. We seek to fill part of this void by exploring…
Minority Rights and Majority Power
Students of legislative politics have struggled to explain and measure party influence on voting and outcomes in Congress. Proponents of strong party effects point to the numerous procedural advantages enjoyed by the majority party as evidence of party effects, yet recent theoretical work by Krehbiel and Meirowitz (2002) argues that House rules guaranteeing the minority a motion to recommit with instructions effectively balances the procedural ad…
Presidential Capital and the Supreme Court Confirmation Process
The Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process has become one of the most contentious aspects of American politics in recent years, representing a seismic struggle between the president and the U.S. Senate over the ideological makeup of the nation's highest court. Existing research focuses on how the ideological compatibility of the president and the Senate affects the ideology of the president's nominees. However, little work addresses wh…
Candidate Quality, the Personal Vote, and the Incumbency Advantage in Congress
Most political observers agree that incumbent legislators have a considerable advantage over nonincumbents in modern congressional elections. Yet there is still disagreement over the exact source of this advantage and the explanation for its growth over time. To address this debate we utilize a unique set of historical elections data to test for the presence of an incumbency advantage in late-nineteenth-century House elections (1872-1900). We fin…
Presidential Capital and the Supreme Court Confirmation Process
The Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process has become one of the most contentious aspects of American politics in recent years, representing a seismic struggle between the president and the U.S. Senate over the ideological makeup of the nation's highest court. Existing research focuses on how the ideological compatibility of the president and the Senate affects the ideology of the president's nominees. However, little work addresses wh…
The Statistical Analysis Of Roll‐Call Data
Roll‐call voting and congressional procedures are two of the most heavily studied aspects of the U.S. Congress. To date, little work has focused on the effect of procedures on the composition of the roll‐call record. This article takes a step in this direction by demonstrating the effect of chamber rules and institutional constraints on House and Senate roll‐call data, as well as on the inferences that scholars have drawn from the roll‐call recor…
Strategic Politicians and U.S. House Elections, 1874–1914
One of the most fundamental changes in post-World War II congressional elections has been the rise of candidate-centered campaigns. This phenomenon has given rise to considerable theoretical and empirical literature demonstrating the strategic behavior of congressional candidates. Yet very few scholars have assessed the effect or existence of strategic candidate behavior for the pre-World War II era. We seek to fill part of this void by exploring…
Pivotal Politics, Presidential Capital, and Supreme Court Nominations
We analyze the Supreme Court nomination process in order to provide a general explanation of presidents' propensity to win confirmation battles even in the face of an ideologically hostile Senate. The analysis serves two purposes. First, we argue that employing the conventional measure of the Senate's power to constrain the president's choice of nominees–the median senator–provides an inaccurate picture of this process. In its stead we argue that…
Minority Rights and Majority Power
Students of legislative politics have struggled to explain and measure party influence on voting and outcomes in Congress. Proponents of strong party effects point to the numerous procedural advantages enjoyed by the majority party as evidence of party effects, yet recent theoretical work by Krehbiel and Meirowitz (2002) argues that House rules guaranteeing the minority a motion to recommit with instructions effectively balances the procedural ad…
The Politics of Obstruction
A defining feature of the modern US Senate is obstruction. Almost all pieces of legislation considered in the Senate are affected either directly or indirectly by obstruction. Obstruction takes many forms in the modern Senate, but one of the most prevalent, yet least studied, is the hold. Using a newly created dataset on Republican Senate holds, we cast light on this important practice. Our results suggest that a variety of factors including timi…
The Cost of Majority‐Party Bias
All major legislation in the House necessitates a special rule from the Rules Committee before it can be brought to the chamber floor. These rules often strictly limit floor amendments to bills considered by the House. Scholars of political parties have argued that the House majority party can bias policy output away from the floor median through its usage of restrictive rules. In this article, we argue that in order to secure the passage of rest…
The Development of Special Orders and Special Rules in the U.S. House, 1881–1937
The modern Committee on Rules plays a critical role in structuring the agenda of the U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, resolutions from the Committee on Rules are the primary means through which controversial legislation reaches the House floor. But the Committee on Rules did not play a role in shaping the floor agenda until the 1880s and, despite intense scrutiny of episodes such as the institution of the Reed rules and the revolt against …
Are All Amateurs Equal? Candidate Quality in the 1992–1998 House Elections
An analysis of U.S. House elections is undertaken for the years 1992–98. Building upon the work of Canon (1990 and 1993), we look at the performance of amateur candidates who defeat at least one quality candidate in the party primary. We find that these “competitive amateurs,” as we call them, are comparable to quality candidates in terms of strategic behavior, fundraising, competitiveness, and electoral success. These results hold for both incum…
Interpersonal Relationships and Legislative Collaboration in Congress
Do interpersonal relationships among and between representatives and senators affect legislative collaboration in the contemporary Congress? The extant literature on Congress suggests interpersonal dimensions of life on Capitol Hill should play a minimal role in the legislative process. However, research in other fields, including psychology, finds that relationships are crucially important within organizations. In addition, many contemporary acc…
The Electoral Consequences of Roll Call Voting
The Dimensionality of Congressional Voting Reconsidered
This article reports findings for a decomposition of the roll-call voting record of the U.S. Congress to determine the effect of the level of aggregation on the observed dimensionality of the policy space. In doing so, we identify some but certainly not all of the ways in which the aggregation of the voting record affects the observed dimensionality of the policy space. For the 1955 to 2008 period (84th-110th Congresses), we apply optimal classif…
Obstruction and the Politics of Civilian Nominations
Conflict over presidential nominations has grown more acrimonious in recent decades. Senators have increasingly exploited their procedural prerogatives to block or delay nominations that they oppose. In this article, we utilize a newly collected dataset on holds placed by Republican senators to explore the usage and effect of obstructive tactics on nominations in the 100th to 104th Congresses (1987-1996). We find that nominees subject to a hold s…
The De-Institutionalization of Congress
THE FRAMERS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION designed the Congress as the most powerful branch of the new government. The institution was granted wide authority over crucial governmental functions such as taxing, spending, and war making. The Framers did not design the institution to be efficient, however. The two chambers were given differing electoral rules, and they diverge starkly in how seats are allocated to the several states.1 To make use of its …
Interpersonal Relationships, Bipartisanship, and January 6th
For a member of Congress to be a successful lawmaker, they must work collaboratively with their colleagues. Previous work has found that interpersonal relationships among lawmakers are a key predictor of legislative collaboration-particularly among members from opposing parties. In the wake of the events of January 6, 2021, many Democratic lawmakers claimed that their relationships with some of their Republican colleagues were irretrievably broke…
Short-Term Goals and Long-Term Effects
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Are All Amateurs Equal? Candidate Quality in the 1992–1998 House Elections
An analysis of U.S. House elections is undertaken for the years 1992–98. Building upon the work of Canon (1990 and 1993), we look at the performance of amateur candidates who defeat at least one quality candidate in the party primary. We find that these “competitive amateurs,” as we call them, are comparable to quality candidates in terms of strategic behavior, fundraising, competitiveness, and electoral success. These results hold for both incum…
Procedural Contexts, Party Strategy, and Conditional Party Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1971–2000
In this article, we provide a critical review of the evidence and arguments about party polarization in the House of Representatives during the late 20th century. We show that inferences about party polarization are significantly affected by voting reform in the early 1970s. We observe that a decomposed roll‐call record alters our view of the timing of changes in party polarization and therefore requires that we reconsider explanations of the tre…
Procedural Contexts, Party Strategy, and Conditional Party Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1971-2000
Presidential Capital and the Supreme Court Confirmation Process
The Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process has become one of the most contentious aspects of American politics in recent years, representing a seismic struggle between the president and the U.S. Senate over the ideological makeup of the nation's highest court. Existing research focuses on how the ideological compatibility of the president and the Senate affects the ideology of the president's nominees. However, little work addresses wh…
Pivotal Politics, Presidential Capital, and Supreme Court Nominations
We analyze the Supreme Court nomination process in order to provide a general explanation of presidents' propensity to win confirmation battles even in the face of an ideologically hostile Senate. The analysis serves two purposes. First, we argue that employing the conventional measure of the Senate's power to constrain the president's choice of nominees–the median senator–provides an inaccurate picture of this process. In its stead we argue that…
Strategic Politicians and U.S. House Elections, 1874–1914
One of the most fundamental changes in post-World War II congressional elections has been the rise of candidate-centered campaigns. This phenomenon has given rise to considerable theoretical and empirical literature demonstrating the strategic behavior of congressional candidates. Yet very few scholars have assessed the effect or existence of strategic candidate behavior for the pre-World War II era. We seek to fill part of this void by exploring…
Minority Rights and Majority Power
Students of legislative politics have struggled to explain and measure party influence on voting and outcomes in Congress. Proponents of strong party effects point to the numerous procedural advantages enjoyed by the majority party as evidence of party effects, yet recent theoretical work by Krehbiel and Meirowitz (2002) argues that House rules guaranteeing the minority a motion to recommit with instructions effectively balances the procedural ad…
Redistricting, Candidate Entry, and the Politics of Nineteenth‐Century U.S. House Elections
The effects of redistricting on candidate entry patterns in contemporary House races has received growing attention in the scholarly literature, yet virtually no consideration has been given to this question in the context of historical elections. This is unfortunate as the wider variation in congressional redistricting during the nineteenth century gives us increased leverage in terms of understanding strategic candidate behavior. Utilizing a ne…
The Statistical Analysis Of Roll‐Call Data
Roll‐call voting and congressional procedures are two of the most heavily studied aspects of the U.S. Congress. To date, little work has focused on the effect of procedures on the composition of the roll‐call record. This article takes a step in this direction by demonstrating the effect of chamber rules and institutional constraints on House and Senate roll‐call data, as well as on the inferences that scholars have drawn from the roll‐call recor…
Candidate Quality, the Personal Vote, and the Incumbency Advantage in Congress
Most political observers agree that incumbent legislators have a considerable advantage over nonincumbents in modern congressional elections. Yet there is still disagreement over the exact source of this advantage and the explanation for its growth over time. To address this debate we utilize a unique set of historical elections data to test for the presence of an incumbency advantage in late-nineteenth-century House elections (1872-1900). We fin…
The American Congress Reader
The American Congress Reader provides a supplement to the popular and updated American Congress undergraduate textbook. By the same authors who drew upon Capitol Hill experience and nationally recognized scholarship to present a crisp introduction and analysis of Congress's inner mechanics, the Reader compiles the best relevant scholarship on party and committee systems, leadership, voting, and floor activity to broaden and illuminate the key fea…
Why Not Parties?
The Development of Special Orders and Special Rules in the U.S. House, 1881–1937
The modern Committee on Rules plays a critical role in structuring the agenda of the U.S. House of Representatives. In fact, resolutions from the Committee on Rules are the primary means through which controversial legislation reaches the House floor. But the Committee on Rules did not play a role in shaping the floor agenda until the 1880s and, despite intense scrutiny of episodes such as the institution of the Reed rules and the revolt against …
The American Congress
The American Congress provides the most current treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and scholarship, this book presents a crisp introduction to major features of Congress: parties and committee systems, leadership, voting and floor activity. This text contains discussions of the importance of presidents, courts and interest groups in congressional policy making. …
Beyond Ideology
American Congress
American Congress Reader
The Politics of Obstruction
A defining feature of the modern US Senate is obstruction. Almost all pieces of legislation considered in the Senate are affected either directly or indirectly by obstruction. Obstruction takes many forms in the modern Senate, but one of the most prevalent, yet least studied, is the hold. Using a newly created dataset on Republican Senate holds, we cast light on this important practice. Our results suggest that a variety of factors including timi…
Short-Term Goals and Long-Term Effects
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
America at the Ballot Box
As a political scientist who studies historical elections, I enthusiastically cheer the return of historians to political history, as demonstrated in these two volumes. Gareth Davies and Julian E. Zelizer's America at the Ballot Box is an impressive collection of essays that take readers into the issues, ideas, and personalities that shaped presidential election campaigns over the history of the Republic. In doing so the editors hope to refocus s…
The Cost of Majority‐Party Bias
All major legislation in the House necessitates a special rule from the Rules Committee before it can be brought to the chamber floor. These rules often strictly limit floor amendments to bills considered by the House. Scholars of political parties have argued that the House majority party can bias policy output away from the floor median through its usage of restrictive rules. In this article, we argue that in order to secure the passage of rest…
The Dimensionality of Congressional Voting Reconsidered
This article reports findings for a decomposition of the roll-call voting record of the U.S. Congress to determine the effect of the level of aggregation on the observed dimensionality of the policy space. In doing so, we identify some but certainly not all of the ways in which the aggregation of the voting record affects the observed dimensionality of the policy space. For the 1955 to 2008 period (84th-110th Congresses), we apply optimal classif…
The De-Institutionalization of Congress
THE FRAMERS OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION designed the Congress as the most powerful branch of the new government. The institution was granted wide authority over crucial governmental functions such as taxing, spending, and war making. The Framers did not design the institution to be efficient, however. The two chambers were given differing electoral rules, and they diverge starkly in how seats are allocated to the several states.1 To make use of its …
The Whips
Obstruction and the Politics of Civilian Nominations
Conflict over presidential nominations has grown more acrimonious in recent decades. Senators have increasingly exploited their procedural prerogatives to block or delay nominations that they oppose. In this article, we utilize a newly collected dataset on holds placed by Republican senators to explore the usage and effect of obstructive tactics on nominations in the 100th to 104th Congresses (1987-1996). We find that nominees subject to a hold s…
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