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		<title>The Electoral Costs of Party Loyalty in Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 16:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
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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>
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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>Impartial Judges? Race, Institutional Context, and U.S. State Supreme Courts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We like to think that in our form of government, political officials represent the citizens at large. Trouble is, it&#8217;s hard to know what &#8220;represent&#8221; means. Often, we talk about representation through two major lenses. &#8220;Descriptive&#8221; representation refers to whether people in government look like Americans generally (in terms of race, gender, maybe even age, [...]]]></description>
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