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- Title
DIMENSIONS OF VOTING BEHAVIOR IN A ONE-PARTY STATE LEGISLATURE.
- Authors
Patterson, Samuel C.
- Abstract
The article reports that two party competitive politics may be a desirable idea toward which to strive, but it is clearly not a pervasive phenomenon in the U.S. Republican dominance in some states of the upper Northeast and Middle West and Democratic dominance in the states of the South make uni-partisanship characteristic of politics, particularly at the level of state offices, in much of this country. Yet, understandably, much of explanation of the political behavior of elected representatives is supported by data in political systems or subsystems where part is a relevant variable. Where two parties are highly competitive in the legislature, and on issues where conflicting positions are held by legislators, parties has much to do with the conflicts which occur. State legislatures in which there is no real part competition may be classified as either nonpartisan by design, as in Minnesota and Nebraska, or nonpartisan by virtue of the overwhelming dominance of one party.
- Subjects
UNITED States; POLITICAL parties; POLITICAL science; LEGISLATIVE bodies; NONPARTISAN elections; SOCIAL sciences
- Publication
Public Opinion Quarterly, 1962, Vol 26, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
0033-362X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/267088