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Incremental polarization : a unified spatial theory of legislative elections, parties and roll call voting / Justin Buchler. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buchler, Justin, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Congress--Elections.
- United States.
- United States. Congress--Voting.
- Political parties--United States.
- Political parties.
- Polarization (Social sciences)--Political aspects--United States.
- Polarization (Social sciences).
- Spatial analysis (Statistics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This text provides a unified spatial model of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting to address three primary questions: why do legislators adopt extreme positions, how do they win given their extremism, and what role do parties play in promoting polarization? Justin Buchler links spatial models of elections to spatial models of roll call voting in the legislature, and suggests that the key to understanding polarization is to reverse the order of conventional models and place the legislative session before the election because legislators adopt positions in the policy space, extreme or otherwise, through the incremental process of casting roll call votes.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 19, 2018).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-087284-5
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