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100	1		_aFLEISHER, Richard; BOND, John R _921950
245	1	0	_aThe Shrinking Middle in the US Congress
260			_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _cJuly 2004
520	3		_aThe virtual disappearance of moderate and cross-pressured members from the US Congress is analyses in this article. There were substantial numbers of these partisan non-conformists in both parties and both chambers until the early 1980s when the middle began to shrink. This trend continued and accelerated in the 1990s. Partisan non-conformists disappeared through replacement and conversion. When moderate and cross-pressured members left Congress, their replacements were much more likely to be partisans in the 1980s and 1990s than they had been in earlier decades. The occurrence of some type of conversion (a shift towards the party's ideological mainstream or a party switch) is also much more common in recent decades. We present evidence that the shrinking in Congress resulted from electoral changes
773	0	8	_tBritish Journal of Political Science _g34, 4, p. 429-451 _dCambridge : Cambridge University Press, July 2004 _xISSN 0007-1234 _w
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998			_a20050930 _b1722^b _cAnaluiza
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c13716 _d13716
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