How Strong Should Our Party Be? Party Member Preferences Over Party Cohesion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6301036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Craig Volden (0000-0003-0046-4510, The Ohio State University), Elizabeth Bergman (0000-0003-1469-0973, California State Polytechnic University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 71-104 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Legislative Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-9805 • E-ISSN: 1939-9162 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3162/036298006x201733 |
| OpenAlex | W1970650152 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
| References cited | 45 |
In this article, we seek to explain when and why political parties pressure their members to vote with the party. We model party cohesion as an endogenous choice of preference alignment by party members. Couched in Krehbiel's (1996, 1998) pivotal politics model, the formal theory advanced here shows party cohesion to be related to the initial preference alignment of party members, the divergence in preferences between parties, the cohesion of the opposing party, the party's size, and the party's majority or minority status. We solved the model analytically for generalized‐partial equilibrium results and further analyzed it through computer simulations. We tested the model's predictions in the U.S. Senate using Rice party cohesion scores from the 46th through 104th Congresses. The data analyses show strong support for this theory of endogenous choice of party pressure
Cohesion (chemistry · Economics · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Party platform · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Preference · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Citation velocity | recent |
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