POLI 100B CONGRESS
Congressional Elections: Voters, Candidates, and Issues



  1. Partisanship and Seat Shares

    Partisanship and House Seat Shares, 1946-2002 (Erikson & Wright, Jacobson Ch. 5 & 6)
    Party-Line Voters in House Elections
    Party-Line Voters in Senate Elections
    House Party Defections
    Senate Party Defections
    Name Recall of House Candidates
    Voter Evaluation of House Candidates

  2. Issues and Ideology

    Spending Preferences by Political Party from NPAT Surveys (Erikson & Wright)
    Issue Differences by Political Party from NPAT Surveys (Erikson & Wright)
    Recall Constraint: Issues are Bundled Together
    Recall The Voting Model
    Distribution of Candidate Ideology by Party (Erikson & Wright)
    Ideology, Party, and Incumbency (Erikson & Wright)
    Ideology and the Presidential Vote (Erikson & Wright)
    Ideology and the House Vote (Erikson & Wright)
    Voters' Perceptions of the Ideology of Representatives (Erikson & Wright)

  3. Challenger Quality

    Incumbents Facing Quality Challengers (Erikson & Wright)
    Quality of Challengers and Party Fortunes in House Elections (Jacobson, Ch. 6)

  4. Voter Choices (Stewart, Chapter 5)

    Probability of Voting as a Function of Evaluations
    Party and Ideological Distance as Factors in Voting
    Interest in Politics, Ideological Extremity, and Voting
    Richard Fenno's Concept of Nested Constituencies