Variability in the Unidimensionality of Legislative Voting

Anderson, Lee F.

doi:10.2307/2127508

The Journal of Politics

1964

DOI: 10.2307/2127508

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Variability in the Unidimensionality of Legislative Voting

Lee F. Anderson¹

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“…Especially problematic would be issue areas where rapid policy changes are taking place or the pressure of events is such that changes could be expected; in such areas, legislators may not have agreed on the terms of argument and a simple dimensional structure may not exist (see Anderson, 1964;Ulmer, 1974). An example of such an area might be environmental protection.…”

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A New Method for Measuring Legislative Content and Change

Burstein

1978

Sociological Methods & Research

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This article has four purposes: (1) to show that it is important to develop a satisfactory way to conceptualize and measure legislative content and change;(2) to propose criteria for evaluating measurement procedures, show that past approaches are inadequate, and propose an improved approach; (3) to apply the approach to voting by the U.S. Senate on Vietnam-related roll calls, 1964-1973; (4) to assess the validity of the approach. The proposed approach involves defining the relevant universe of content more narrowly than in most previous work and using Smallest Space Analysis to derive dimensions and locate items on them. A substantively interpretable three-dimensional solution is found, and the scores given legislative items behave statistically in ways that would be expected of valid measures. his paper has four purposes: ( 1 ) to show that it is important to develop adequate measures of legislative content and change;(2) to show that present methods are unsatisfactory;(3) to propose a new method and apply it to Senate voting on Vietnam war bills; (4) to test the validity of the new method in some simple ways. MEASURING LEGISLATIVE CHANGEInterest has increased recently in work that attempts to gauge statistically how inputs into the political process-social, at RYERSON UNIV on June 18, 2015 smr.sagepub.com Downloaded from

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A re-evaluation of alternate methodologies in legislative voting analysis

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Majority vs. Opposition in the French National Assembly, 1956–1965: A Guttman Scale Analysis^*

Wood

1968

Am Polit Sci Rev

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A series of significant developments in French politics has recently touched off speculation about the possibility that a major transformation of the structure and behavioral patterns of the system of political parties is taking place. The most salient developments from 1958 until 1967 can be briefly listed: (1) the unprecedented longevity of governmental coalitions throughout the entire span of life of the Fifth Republic (only one Government overthrown in eight years); (2) the near single-party majority attained by the Gaullist UNR in the November, 1962 elections; (3) the ability of five major non-Gaullist parties to coalesce their forces behind only two candidates opposing General de Gaulle in the December, 1965 presidential election, with the resulting necessity for a second ballot; (4) the subsequent merging of forces on the moderate left and the moderate right into combinations bent upon coordinated efforts in the March, 1967 legislative elections; (5) the successful construction of a Gaullist electoral alliance limiting the number of official Gaullist first-ballot candidates in each constituency to one; (6) the electoral agreements between the Communists and the moderate left Fédération permitting only one candidate of the left to remain in the race in any constituency on the second ballot; and (7) the tendency of voters to reward the united fronts of the outgoing Gaullist majority and the consistent leftist opposition and to penalize the relatively small and ambiguous center force, the Centre Démocrate.

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Variability in the Unidimensionality of Legislative Voting

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A New Method for Measuring Legislative Content and Change

A New Method for Measuring Legislative Content and Change

A re-evaluation of alternate methodologies in legislative voting analysis

Majority vs. Opposition in the French National Assembly, 1956–1965: A Guttman Scale Analysis^*

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Variability in the Unidimensionality of Legislative Voting

Cited by 7 publications

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A New Method for Measuring Legislative Content and Change

A New Method for Measuring Legislative Content and Change

A re-evaluation of alternate methodologies in legislative voting analysis

Majority vs. Opposition in the French National Assembly, 1956–1965: A Guttman Scale Analysis*

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Majority vs. Opposition in the French National Assembly, 1956–1965: A Guttman Scale Analysis^*