Where You Sit Is Where You Stand: The Impact of Seating Proximity on Legislative Cue-Taking
In: Quarterly journal of political science, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 301-311
Abstract
This article builds on Matthews and Stimsons (1975) study of legislative cue taking, analyzing the extent to which legislators sitting next to each other influence each others voting behavior. Data come from three decades of roll call votes in the California Assembly, a chamber in which each member is paired with a deskmate. By comparing deskmate pairs with nondeskmate pairs, I find that legislators vote identically to their deskmates on a sizeable subset of roll calls. This deskmate effect appears to remain strong even as a rival influence, legislative partisanship, increases in strength. Adapted from the source document.
Themen
Roll Call, California, Voting Behavior, Legislators, Legislative Bodies, Cooperation
Sprachen
Englisch
Verlag
now Publishers Inc., Hanover, MA 02339
ISSN: 1554-0626
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