Constituencies and Leaders in Congress

Their Effects on Senate Voting Behavior

John Jackson

    1. Legislative Behavior and the Determinants of Public Policy

    2. A Model of Legislative Voting Behavior

    3. Measuring Senate Voting Behavior

    4. Voting Behavior of Individual Senators

    5. Estimates of 1963 Voting Behavior: A Test of the Models

    6. Voting Behavior on Specific Legislation

    7. Constituencies, Leaders, and Public Policy

    Appendixes

    A: The Development of the Constituency Variables

    B: Problems of Guttman Scaling, Functional Form, and Coefficient Estimation

    Notes

    Index

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John E. Jackson teaches government at Harvard University