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Incremental Polarization

A Unified Spatial Theory of Legislative Elections, Parties and Roll Call Voting

By (author) Justin Buchler
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, United States
Published: 14th Jun 2018
Dimensions: w 162mm h 236mm d 17mm
Weight: 442g
ISBN-10: 019086558X
ISBN-13: 9780190865580
Barcode No: 9780190865580
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As the last decade has shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an ideological spectrum, and voters choose candidates based on those locations. However, the central tendency of these models is for the candidates to converge to the location of the median voter, so polarization has become increasingly problematic for spatial theory, even as scholars have come to rely increasingly on these models. In Incremental Polarization, Justin Buchler provides a unified spatial model of legislative elections, parties, and roll call voting to explain the development of polarization in Congress. His model moves beyond elections and factors in legislators' roll call voting, where a different but related spatial process operates. By linking these models, Incremental Polarization fills a critical gap in our understanding of the strategic, electoral, and procedural roots of polarization-and the role that parties play in the process.

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In this book, Buchler is asking all the right questions and providing some good answers to them...the book remains quite an impressive accomplishment. * Sean M. Theriault, University of Texas- Austin, Congress & the Presidency *