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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>
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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>Constituents&#8217; Responses to Congressional Roll-Call Voting</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<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>Candidate Positioning and Voter Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Issue-based voting seems simple enough on its face: Support the candidate who will produce the policies you want. Simple as it sounds, though, there are three competing theories as to how voters actually make this decision. The lengthy previous literature on candidate positioning has failed to distinguish empirically between these three theories&#8211;something that Tomz and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Citizen Initiative Weaken Party Government in the U.S. States?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Progressive reformers first championed adoption of the citizen initiative and other direct democracy institutions, a major reason was to limit the ability of political parties to pursue extreme policies. In the absence of direct democracy, political parties might not have much reason to promote moderate policies. Republican legislators would generally prefer policies to the [...]]]></description>
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