Incremental polarization : a unified spatial theory of legislative elections, parties and roll call voting / Justin Buchler.
Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)Content type: text | still image Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780190872847 (ebook) :Subject(s): United States. Congress -- Elections | United States. Congress -- Voting | Political parties -- United States
| Polarization (Social sciences) -- Political aspects -- United States | Spatial analysis (Statistics)Additional Physical Form: Print version : 9780190865580DDC classification: 328.730769 LOC classification: JK1976 | .B83 2018Online resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This text provides a unified spatial model of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting to address three primary questions: why do legislators adopt extreme positions, how do they win given their extremism, and what role do parties play in promoting polarization? Justin Buchler links spatial models of elections to spatial models of roll call voting in the legislature, and suggests that the key to understanding polarization is to reverse the order of conventional models and place the legislative session before the election because legislators adopt positions in the policy space, extreme or otherwise, through the incremental process of casting roll call votes.
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Previously issued in print: 2018.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This text provides a unified spatial model of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting to address three primary questions: why do legislators adopt extreme positions, how do they win given their extremism, and what role do parties play in promoting polarization? Justin Buchler links spatial models of elections to spatial models of roll call voting in the legislature, and suggests that the key to understanding polarization is to reverse the order of conventional models and place the legislative session before the election because legislators adopt positions in the policy space, extreme or otherwise, through the incremental process of casting roll call votes.
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