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100	1		_aWRIGHT, Gerald C _911465
245	1	0	_aThe influence of party : _bevidence from the state legislatures
260			_bAmerican Political Science Association, _c2002
520	3		_aAmerican legislative studies in recent years have been occupied to a large degree with the question of the effects of political parties on the policy behavior of elected legislators, with most of the research focusing on the U.S. Congress. We undertake a comparative analysis of state legislatures for a window into the character and extent of party`s effects. Specifically, we compare the impact of party on the partisan polarization and dimensionality of compaign issue stances and roll call voting in the Kansas Senate and the largely comparable, though nonpartisan, Nebraska Unicameral. This comparison offers us a nice quasi-experiment to assess the impact of party by stablishing a baseline condition in Nebraska for what happens when party is absent. We argue that party lends order to conflict, producing the ideological low-dimensional space that is a trademark of American politics. Where parties are not active in the legislature - Nebraska is our test case - the clear structure found in partisan politics disapperas. This works to server the connection between voters and their elected representatives and, with in, the likelihood of electoral accountability that is essential for the health of liberal democracy
700	1		_aSCHAFFNER, Brian F _920435
773	0	8	_tAmerican Political Science Review _g96, 2, p. 367-379 _dAmerican Political Science Association, 2002 _w
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998			_a20030401 _bKaren _cKaren
998			_a20060404 _b0937^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c11952 _d11952
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