An earlier version of this article was presented at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Toronto; the 2010 Research Design for Causal Inference Workshop, Northwestern University Law School; and in American Politics workshops at the University of Colorado, the University of Kansas, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of North Carolina, and Yale University. We thank Gary Jacobson and Keith Poole for providing data, and Scott Adler, Chris Berry, Jamie Carson, Gary Cox, Mike Crespin, Nick Eubank, Larry Evans, Ben Farrer, Jean-François Godbout, Keith Krehbiel, John Lapinski, Mathew McCubbins, Marc Meredith, William Minozzi, Jason Roberts, Jessica Trounstine, Nick Weller, and other workshop participants for their many thoughtful suggestions. Jenkins thanks the Bankard Fund for Political Economy at the University of Virginia for a grant in support of this project. We also thank Ben Goodhue, Randall Collett, and Kyle Terry for excellent research assistance. Data and replication files can be found at http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/nmonroe2/index/Research.html.
Buying Negative Agenda Control in the U.S. House
Article first published online: 3 MAY 2012
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2012.00593.x
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Jenkins, J. A. and Monroe, N. W. (2012), Buying Negative Agenda Control in the U.S. House. American Journal of Political Science, 56: 897–912. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-5907.2012.00593.x
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Appendix 1: Tobit (rather than OLS)
Table A1: Tobit Results (rather than OLS)
Appendix 2: OLS, clustering by member
Table A2: OLS Results with Clustering by Member
Appendix 3: OLS, using Margin60 and continuous electoral margin instead of Margin55
Table A3: OLS, using Margin60 instead of Margin55
Table A4: OLS using Electoral Margin instead of Margin55
Appendix 4: OLS, splitting NOMINATE by non-procedural votes and procedural votes
Table A5: OLS Results: Contributions from the Majority-Party Leadership (NOMINATE constructed with Non-Procedural Votes Only)
Table A6: OLS Results: Contributions from the Majority-Party Leadership (NOMINATE constructed with Procedural Votes Only)
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