chris tausanovitch & chris warshaw may 19, 2011 cces conference
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Representation in the U.S. House: The Link Between Constituents and Roll Calls in the 108th-111th Congress’s. Chris Tausanovitch & Chris Warshaw May 19, 2011 CCES Conference. We jointly scale over 300,000 citizens with their legislators in order to assess representation - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Representation in the U.S. House:
The Link Between Constituents and Roll Calls in the 108th-
111th Congress’sChris Tausanovitch & Chris Warshaw
May 19, 2011CCES Conference
Survey Respondents Policy Items
2006 CCES 30,000 18
2008 CCES 32,800 32
2010 CCES (Common Content) 55,000 22
2000 NAES 58,373 25
2004 NAES 81,422 23
2008 NAES 61,704 14
2010 CCES module (1,300) 175
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• We jointly scale over 300,000 citizens with their legislators in order to assess representation
• Our CCES module “bridges” large-N surveys• Project Votesmart “bridges” citizens and
legislators
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Dependent Variable: Legislator Ideology(108th-111th Congress’s)
1. Bridging offers a way to get large samples and a reliable joint scaling of preferences
2. Representation of same-party constituents is a spurious effect
3. Democrats tend to position themselves as a quadratic function of the median
4. Republicans respond less to the median, and more to the proportion of Republicans and extreme voters
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Conclusion
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• David Brady• Jonathan Rodden• Simon Jackman• Jeff Lewis• UCLA Social Sciences Computing• Project VoteSmart for sharing NPAT
data• CCES and NAES for sharing survey data• Staff at YouGov/Polimetrix
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Acknowledgements
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