Incremental polarization : a unified spatial theory of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting / Justin Buchler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buchler, Justin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Congress--Elections.

United States.

United States. Congress.

Elections.

United States. Congress--Voting.

Voting.

Political parties--United States.

Political parties.

Polarization (Social sciences).

Polarization (Social sciences)--Political aspects--United States.

Spatial analysis (Statistics).

Physical Description:

v, 195 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]

Summary:

As the Last Decade has Shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an ideological spectrum, and voters choose candidates based on those locations. However, the central tendency of these models is for the candidates to converge to the location of the median voter, so polarization has become increasingly problematic for spatial theory, even as scholars have come to rely increasingly on these models. In Incremental Polarization, Justin Buchler provides a unified spatial model of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting to explain the development of polarization in Congress. His model moves beyond elections and factors in legislators' roll call voting, where a different but related spatial process operates. By linking these models, Incremental Polarization fills a critical gap in our understanding of the strategic, electoral, and procedural roots of polarization-and the role that parties play in the process. Book jacket.

Contents:

Voter preferences over bundles of roll call votes

The costs of incremental positioning

A unified spatial model of Congress

Polarization and solving the collective action problem

The collective action problem in practice

Extreme reversion points and party leadership from 2011 through 2016.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Buchler, Justin. Incremental polarization.

ISBN:

9780190865580

019086558X

9780190865597

0190865598

OCLC:

1015806726