Incremental Polarization: A Unified Spatial Theory of Legislative Elections, Parties and Roll Call Voting

by Justin Buchler

As the last decade has shown, ideological polarization in Congress has reached historic levels. Yet, spatial theory has become increasingly important for how scholars understand Congress and legislative elections. In spatial models, candidates select positions along an ideological spectrum, and voters choose candidates based on those locations. However, the central tendency of these models is for the candidates to converge to the location of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190865598
• ISBN13: 9780190865597
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"