Structural determinants of party voting in the United States Congress : 1877-1990 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Kerr, John Brinckerhoff
Other Authors:	Anderson, James E. (degree committee member.), DiQuattro, Arthur W. (degree committee member.), Mladenka, Kenneth R. (degree committee member.), Sell, Jane A. (degree committee member.), Wood, B. Dan (degree committee member.)
Format:	Thesis Book
Language:	English
Published:	1993.
Subjects:	Major political science. Academic theses
Online Access:	ProQuest, Abstract Link to OAKTrust copy

Description
Abstract:	The nature and extent of structural impacts on party voting in the United States Congress receives limited and incoherent theoretical attention in previous research. Using concepts borrowed from organization theory, such as centralization and formalism, my dissertation addresses this shortcoming in the extant literature. The empirical results indicate that external structural and non-structural factors are much more important than internal factors for determining changes in levels of party voting in the Congress, both in the short-term and over the long-term.
Item Description:	Vita. "Major subject: Political Science."
Physical Description:	x, 202 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references.