Doctoral Dissertation Research in Political Science: The Impact of Political Party System upon Legislative Roll Call Voting Behavior

政治学博士论文研究：政党制度对立法点名投票行为的影响

• 批准号: 0111986
• 负责人: Christopher Zorn
• 金额: $ 0.78万
• 依托单位: Emory University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-07-15 至 2003-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0111986&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Political; Science

This Doctoral Dissertation Research Support investigation examines the process of representation in American legislatures by focusing on the effect of political party system upon legislator roll call decisions. Poole and Rosenthal (1997) found that most roll call vote can be explained by a simple one or two dimensional model, in which the primary dimension is political ideology. However, recent work suggests that this low-dimensional structure tends to break down when two-party electoral competition declines.This dissertation explores this apparent linkage between party system and the level of structure found in roll call votes by looking at three state legislative chambers. Each chamber is characterized by a different party system. Roll call data collected from these three states permits the evaluation of hypotheses regarding the impact of party electoral competition on the dimensionality of roll call voting and the distribution of member ideal points along those dimensions.

这篇博士论文研究支持调查研究代表在美国立法机构的过程中，专注于政党制度对立法者点名决定的影响。Poole和Rosenthal（1997）发现，大多数唱名投票可以用一个简单的一维或二维模型来解释，其中主要维度是政治意识形态。然而，最近的工作表明，这种低维结构往往打破两党选举竞争decreased.This论文探讨了这种明显的联系，政党制度和结构的水平，发现在唱名表决通过看三个州的立法院。每个议院都有不同的政党制度。从这三个国家收集的点名数据允许评估的假设政党选举竞争的影响的维度上的点名投票和成员的理想点沿这些维度的分布沿着。