The Dimensionality of Congressional Voting Reconsidered
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 6179357 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Jason M Roberts (0000-0001-8113-1827, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, autor correspondente), Stephanie S Smith (0000-0001-9943-6717, Washington University in St. Louis), Steven S Smith, Stephen R Haptonstahl (National Public Radio) |
| Ano | 2016 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Fascículo | 5 |
| Páginas | 794-815 |
| Data de publicação | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | American Politics Research (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 1532-673X • E-ISSN: 1552-3373 |
| Editora | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532673x15608940 |
| OpenAlex | W2255276142 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 8 |
| Referências citadas | 26 |
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 classification (OC) to votes aggregated to the level of the individual bill and policy area to measure dimensionality. We examine the marginal proportional reduction in error (MPRE) across dimensions. Our results demonstrate that complexity in voting patterns of individual bill episodes is the norm, that aggregating to higher levels reduces the observed dimensionality, and that the liberal–conservative dimension appears more dominant in more highly aggregated analyses. These results call into question many of the conclusions from the theoretical and empirical literature on the U.S. Congress that uses a unidimensional model
Combinatorics · Curse of dimensionality · Dimensionality reduction · Econometrics · Economics · Political science · Politics · Statistics · Voting · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Mathematics · Media Influence and Politics · Artificial Intelligence
Legislation and Perception
Pivots or Partisans? Proposal-Making Strategy and Status Quo Selection in Congress
How to Place Non-Majoritarian Institutions and Political Actors in a Common Policy Space
Rebels in the house
Bill Text and Agenda Control in the US Congress
Gender and Foreign Policy
Nonparametric Ideal-Point Estimation and Inference
Multiple Ideal Points
Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
Veto Bargaining
Party Influence in Congress
Linear Probability Models of the Demand for Attributes with an Empirical Application to Estimating the Preferences of Legislators
Pivotal Politics
Procedural Contexts, Party Strategy, and Conditional Party Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1971–2000
How Preferences Change Institutions
The Congressional Response to a Decade of Change
Examining the Bonding Effects of Party
American Business, Public Policy, Case-Studies, and Political Theory
Baselines for Evaluating Explanations of Coalition Behavior in Congress
Dimensions, Issues, and Bills
Setting the Legislative Agenda
The Dimensional Structure of Policy Outputs
Polarization and Ideology
Nonparametric Unfolding of Binary Choice Data
Measuring Legislative Accomplishment, 1877–1994
Examining the Robustness of Ideological Voting
Evaluating Theories of Congressional Roll-Call Voting
Constituency Influence in Congress
Distributive and Partisan Issues in Agriculture Policy in the 104th House
Dimensions in Congressional Voting
The Influence of Party
| Obras citantes distintas | 8 |
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
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| Velocidade de citação | current |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 8 |