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- Title
Gender Turnover and Roll-Call Voting in the U. S. House of Representatives.
- Authors
Schwindt-Bayer, Leslie A.; CorbelIa, Renato
- Abstract
The article disputes the conclusions of previous research that women members of the U.S. House of Representatives exhibit a more liberal voting record than men. In reassessing roll-call voting behavior of men and women in the 1990s, they use a "turnover model" in which the congressional constituency is the unit of analysis rather than the individual member. The authors test for the effect of gender on voting behavior excluding all other variables where there is turnover within a district between male and female representatives. The authors conclude that gender differences found in previous research resulted from a failure to control for other influences. If women representatives have more liberal voting records than men, that seems to result from women being more likely to win in liberal constituencies.
- Subjects
UNITED States; VOTING; GENDER role; UNITED States. Congress. House; UNITED States. Congress -- Constituent communication; INFLUENCE; UNITED States legislators; LIBERALISM
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3162/036298004X201159