We use responses to a large-scale national survey designed to oversample political activists
to investigate the extent to which participant publics are representative of the public as a …

This paper formulates and estimates a rigorously-justified linear probability model of binary
choices over alternatives characterized by unobserved attributes. The model is applied to …

A new solution to the ecological inference problem is used to examine split-ticket voting
patterns across states and congressional districts in the 1988 elections. Earlier studies of …

1While Chappell's ordinary least squares (OLS) estimates of the contribution coefficients are
significant with one exception, the estimates are biased upwards. His simultaneous equation …

This paper shows that interest group ratings based on roll-call voting records tend to
exaggerate the degree of extremism and bipolarity in Congress. That is, the scores assigned …

In Why Americans Split Their Tickets, Barry C. Burden and David C. Kimball argue that
divided government is produced unintentionally. Using a new quantitative method to …

A longitudinal analysis of a 30-year period shows that the more heterogeneous a state's
population, the more likely it is to have simultaneously a Democratic and a Republican …

Conflicting findings in the congressional roll-call voting literature have been attributed, in
part, to scholars' failure to identify appropriately the subconstituencies to whom legislators …

The essays in this collection show how electoral geography has shifted from empiricist
activity towards a closer involvement with the wider issues addressed by social scientists …

This paper attempts to explain better the linkages between constituency opinion and the
voting records of senators. A hybrid explanation—the modified two-constituency thesis—is …