Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting

作者：Keith T. Poole, Howard L. Rosenthal · 发表于：Medical Entomology and Zoology · 年份：2000 · 被引用次数：2904 · 研究领域：Electoral Systems and Political Participation、American Constitutional Law and Politics

In this wide-ranging study, the authors use 200 years of congressional roll call voting as a framework for an interpretation of important episodes in American political and economic history. By tracing the voting patterns of Congress throughout the country's history, Poole and Rosenthal find that, despite a wide array of issues facing legislators, over 80 percent of a legislator's voting decisions can be attributed to a consistent ideological position ranging from ultraconservatism to ultraliberalism.