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		<title>Formal and Perceived Leadership Power in U.S. State Legislatures</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2011/07/formal-and-perceived-leadership-power-in-u-s-state-legislatures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:29:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who study Congress have engaged in long arguments about the importance (or lack thereof) of Congressional leaders in influencing outcomes. Among others, see Cox and McCubbins 1993 and 2005, Krehbiel 1993 and 1998, Binder 1996, and so on. But in a recent article published in SPPQ, Battista asks an important prior question: Do we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party Power or Preferences? Quasi-Experimental Evidence from American State Legislatures</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Sep 2010 16:27:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider why some bills can get through a legislature but others can&#8217;t. Perhaps (1) legislator preferences are all that matters; liberal legislators vote for liberal bills and against conservative ones. Perhaps (2) majority party cajoling also matters; if a strong majority leader can persuade his caucus to vote for a bill, it passes. Perhaps (3) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Electoral Costs of Party Loyalty in Congress</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/the-electoral-costs-of-party-loyalty-in-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I wrote about Ansolabehere and Jones&#8217;s article in AJPS showing that voters really do hold members of Congress accountable for their voting record in Congress. On the very next page in AJPS, we find another article on the same theme. But Carson et al. want to change the way we think about this accountability. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constituents&#8217; Responses to Congressional Roll-Call Voting</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/constituents-responses-to-congressional-roll-call-voting/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/08/constituents-responses-to-congressional-roll-call-voting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://abstractpolitics.com/?p=248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Turns out that democracy works, at least when it comes to voters holding members of Congress accountable for their voting record. For accountability to happen, we need to see three things: (1) Voters need to have specific opinions on specific issues before Congress; (2) voters need to know how their member of Congress actually voted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Broad Bills or Particularistic Policy? Historical Patterns in American State Legislatures</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/05/broad-bills-of-particularistic-policy-historical-patterns-in-american-state-legislatures/</link>
		<comments>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/05/broad-bills-of-particularistic-policy-historical-patterns-in-american-state-legislatures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 16:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When will state legislators take on broad revisions to state policy, and when will they focus instead on particularistic bills (that is, bills that benefit only their home district)? Broad bills ensure that general state policies remain current and fair, but legislators might avoid them for two reasons. First, they are technically complicated; if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Middle Ground: How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2010/02/no-middle-ground-how-informal-party-organizations-control-nominations-and-polarize-legislatures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>hjghassell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The debate on the influence of political parties on the political process until recently has been restricted to parties in government.  Scholars have focused their debate primarily on the impact of party on the actions of a legislator in the legislature. Masket takes this a step further, arguing that local informal party organizations control nominations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delegating Direct Democracy: Interparty Legislative Competition and the Adoption of the Initiative in the American States</title>
		<link>http://abstractpolitics.com/2009/02/delegating-direct-democracy-interparty-legislative-competition-and-the-adoption-of-the-initiative-in-the-american-states/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 18:52:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, voters in 24 states can make policy directly through the initiative process. In most of these states, the initiative process was first adopted between 1898 and 1918. Smith and Fridkin seek to explain why only these states, and not others, adopted the initiative. Previous Work Because most of the states that adopted the initiative [...]]]></description>
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