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Are legislators faithful to their constituents?
The correlation between district partisanship and legislator ideology is not perfect, but it is nevertheless strongly positive. This analysis was performed by Robert Richards, a student research fellow at BYU’s Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy, in collaboration … Continue reading
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Tagged ideology, legislature, nominate, representation, republic, roll call votes, single member districts, student research
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Are legislators faithful to their constituents?