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Chris Tausanovitch & Chris Warshaw May 19, 2011 CCES Conference

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

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Chris Tausanovitch & Chris Warshaw May 19, 2011 CCES Conference

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  1. 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

  2. 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 CCES Conference: May 29, 2011

  3. CCES Conference: May 29, 2011

  4. Dependent Variable: Legislator Ideology • (108th-111th Congress’s)

  5. Conclusion • Bridging offers a way to get large samples and a reliable joint scaling of preferences • Representation of same-party constituents is a spurious effect • Democrats tend to position themselves as a quadratic function of the median • Republicans respond less to the median, and more to the proportion of Republicans and extreme voters CCES Conference: May 29, 2011

  6. Acknowledgements • 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 CCES Conference: May 29, 2011

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