@article{134,
  keywords = {article, Partisanship, Political parties, Voting Behavior, Legislators, Legislative Bodies, 9089: government/political systems; legislatures},
  author = {Nolan McCarty and Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal},
  title = {The Hunt for Party Discipline in Congress},
  abstract = {We analyze party discipline in the House of Representatives between 1947 \& 1998. The effects of party pressures can be represented in a spatial model by allowing each party to have its own cutting line on roll call votes. Adding a second cutting line makes, at best, a marginal improvement over the standard single-line model. Analysis of legislators who switch parties shows, however, that party discipline is manifest in the location of the legislator{\textquoteright}s ideal point. In contrast to our approach, we find that the Snyder-Groseclose method of estimating the influence of party discipline is biased toward exaggerating party effects. 4 Tables, 9 Figures, 2 Appendixes, 23 References. Adapted from the source document.},
  year = {2001},
  journal = {American Political Science Review},
  volume = {95},
  pages = { - 687},
  month = {September 2001},
  isbn = {0003-0554, 0003-0554},
  url = {https://search.proquest.com/docview/60569203?accountid=13314},
  note = {plain_text},
  language = {eng},
}