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A Man for All Seasons: Partisan Constraints on U.S. Senate Majority Leaders

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In this article, I examine the roll-call voting behaviour of U.S. Senate Majority Leaders, finding that Leaders generally locate around the ideological mean and median of their party at selection and at the beginning of their tenure but move toward the partisan extreme as their leadership progresses. Statistical analysis links this movement to size of majority; that is, as their partisan majority increases, their roll-call voting becomes more extreme. These findings, then, contribute a new interpretation of the existing literature’s ‘middleman’ theory of congressional party leadership.

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Party Politics

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: sage publisher., 2010

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English

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13540688

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Vol. 16 no. 3, May 2010, pp. 323-346

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Leadership
Ideology
Voting Behaviour
U.S. Senate
Majority

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