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- Title
Consistency Between Committee And Floor Voting In U.S. State Legislatures.
- Authors
Hamm, Keith E.
- Abstract
In this study the degree of consistency in legislator voting between the committee and the floor in seven legislative chambers is examined. Consistency is hypothesized to be a function of the combined effects of consensus/conflict in the committee decision, floor opposition, and alteration of the content of the bill. The findings indicate that once "consent" bills are excluded from analysis one in six to one in ten legislators switch their vote between the committee and the floor. The switching occurs across a wide range of bills and cannot be explained from the addition of floor amendments. Further analysis indicates that the major variable is the party affiliation of the individual. Minority party members are more likely to engage in inconsistent voting patterns and tend to exhibit different types of inconsistencies than do members of the majority party.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LEGISLATIVE bodies; UNITED States politics &; government; PRACTICAL politics; LEGISLATIVE bills; UNITED States legislators; VOTING; POLITICAL participation; POLITICAL affiliation
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1982, Vol 7, Issue 4, p473
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/439351