Constituency Preferences
California Ballot Propositions, 1974-90
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6301422 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jane Mcintosh Snyder (0000-0002-1386-2844, corresponding author), James M Snyder |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 463 |
| Publication date | 1996-11-01 |
| 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 | 10.2307/440457 |
| OpenAlex | W2017669085 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 22 |
What effect do their constituencies'voting preferences have on legislators' roll-call voting patterns? Through a study of citizens' votes on statewide ballot propositions and legislators' votes on roll calls in California, I find that when aggregated into legislative districts, the revealed preferences of California voters can be described by a spatial model with just three dimensions; that the constituency preference dimensions defined by this spatial model do an excellent job of predicting the overall roll-call voting patterns in the California legislature; and that there is evidence of a strong dimension-by-dimension correspondence between constituency preferences and legislative roll-call patterns. These findings suggest that the high degree of constraint found in roll-call voting in many U.S. legislatures may be due to legislatorconstituency linkages
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2021 (21) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |