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Keith T. Poole and Howard Rosenthal


Keith T. Poole
Philip H. Alston, Jr. Distinguished Professor
Professor Emeritus, UCSD
Department of Political Science
The University of Georgia
Baldwin Hall
Athens, GA 30602

Send E-Mail To: Keith T. Poole at ktpoole@uga.edu



Howard Rosenthal
Roger Williams Straus Professor of Social Sciences and Professor of Politics, Emeritus

Table of Contents

            Chapters

 1. Introduction:  The Liberal/Conservative Structure
 2. The Spatial Model and Congressional Voting 
 3. The Spatial Model: Accuracy and Dimensionality
 4. The Spatial Model: Stability, Replacement, and Polarization
 5. Party Realignment in Congress
 6. Issues, Constituency Interests, and the Basic Space
 7. Sophisticated Voting and Agenda Manipulation
 8. Roll Call Voting and Interest-Group Ratings
 9. Committees and Roll Calls
10. Abstention From Roll Call Voting
11. The Unidimensional Congress

            Appendices

A.  The NOMINATE Method of Estimating Spatial Models of Voting
B.  The Dimensionality of Spatial Voting
C.  Roll Call Coding Categories




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