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In the last generation, congressional moderates have become ideologically more extreme over the course of their careers. We explain this "ideological migration" of moderates as a side effect of close partisan competition for control of the US House since 1994. Competition for the House caused...
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This study extends the political science and political psychology literature on the political ideology of lawmakers by … addressing the following question: How stable is a legislator's political ideology over time? In doing so, we employ Nokken …-Poole scores of legislators' political ideology for members of the United States (U.S.) House of Representatives and the U …
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Models of electoral competition in which candidates can change position at no cost predict the convergence of platforms in a two-candidate election. Such convergence is at odds with empirical observation. In this paper, I undertake a study of candidate positioning in the United States Senate and...
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