One-Party Dominance in Legislatures Export

@article{citeulike:5707202, abstract = {Democratic party domination of the U.S. House of Representatives coupled with competitive presidential elections is mildly paradoxical. The same voters participate in elections in both constituencies, yet the partisan distribution of voters across constituencies is such that the U.S. House was consistently Democratic in the modern era. The consequences of the particular distribution of votes which exists in a given epoch are explored with an elementary dynamic mathematical model. It is shown that a number of significant consequences for partisan control of a legislature are logically entailed by the inevitably unequal distribution of safe seats between two parties especially under conditions of high levels of institutionalization.}, author = {Sprague, John}, citeulike-article-id = {5707202}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/439649}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/439649}, doi = {10.2307/439649}, issn = {03629805}, journal = {Legislative Studies Quarterly}, keywords = {time\_series}, number = {2}, pages = {259--285}, posted-at = {2009-09-02 16:49:51}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Comparative Legislative Research Center}, title = {One-Party Dominance in Legislatures}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/439649}, volume = {6}, year = {1981} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5707202 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5707202 N2 - Democratic party domination of the U.S. House of Representatives coupled with competitive presidential elections is mildly paradoxical. The same voters participate in elections in both constituencies, yet the partisan distribution of voters across constituencies is such that the U.S. House was consistently Democratic in the modern era. The consequences of the particular distribution of votes which exists in a given epoch are explored with an elementary dynamic mathematical model. It is shown that a number of significant consequences for partisan control of a legislature are logically entailed by the inevitably unequal distribution of safe seats between two parties especially under conditions of high levels of institutionalization. IS - 2 JF - Legislative Studies Quarterly SN - 03629805 EP - 285 TI - One-Party Dominance in Legislatures PB - Comparative Legislative Research Center VL - 6 SP - 259 KW - time_series AU - Sprague, John PY - 1981/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/439649 ER -