What Roll Calls Should We Exclude from Conservative Coalition Calculations

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ID6300588
AuthorsThomas H Hammond (0000-0002-4151-7845), Jane M Fraser, Jane Fraser (0000-0002-5751-2686)
Year1982
Volume7
Issue3
Pages423
Publication date1982-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLegislative Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0362-9805 • E-ISSN: 1939-9162
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.2307/439367
OpenAlexW2328625790
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited9

Legislative roll-call analysts often exclude from consideration roll calls which show only minimal amounts of conflict. There is no agreement on what this minimal amount should be: some analysts exclude only unanimous roll calls, for example, while others exclude roll calls on which the minority receives as much as 20 percent of the total votes cast. When calculating the frequency with which assorted alliances-such as the in Congress-occur on roll calls, it turns out that the different exclusion rules produce quite different estimates of how often the alliances form. This paper develops a rule for calculating exactly which roll calls to exclude from these coalition-formation analyses. We then test the various rules against our exact rule to estimate the magnitude of errors produced by the flat-rate rules in counting Conservative Coalition occurrences on congressional roll calls from 1921 through 1978

Economics · Law and economics · Political economy · Political science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Political Systems and Governance · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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