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    The Role of Party: The Legislative Consequences of Partisan Electoral Competition

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    Carroll, Royce; Eichorst, Jason
    Date
    2013
    Abstract
    We examine the proposition that incentives for legislative organization can be explained by the nature of electoral competition. We argue that legislators in environments where parties are competitive for majority status are most likely to have delegated power to their leadership to constrain individualistic behavior within their party, which will in turn increase the spatial predictability of individual voting patterns. Using roll call votes and district-level electoral data from the U.S. state legislatures, we show empirically that increased statewide interparty competition corresponds to much more predictable voting behavior overall, while legislators from competitive districts have less predictable behavior.
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    Carroll, Royce and Eichorst, Jason. "The Role of Party: The Legislative Consequences of Partisan Electoral Competition." Legislative Studies Quarterly, 38, no. 1 (2013) John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: 83-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12004.
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    http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12004
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    Journal article
    Publisher
    John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1911/75545
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    This is an author's peer-reviewed final manuscript, as accepted by the publisher. The published article is copyrighted by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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