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Tables of Contents for Congress
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: The Liberal/Conservative Structure
3
11
The Spatial Model and Congressional Voting
11
16
The Spatial Model: Accuracy and Dimensionality
27
31
The Spatial Model: Stability, Replacement, and Polarization
58
28
Party Realignment in Congress
86
29
Issues, Constituency Interests, and the Basic Space
115
31
Sophisticated Voting and Agenda Manipulation
146
19
Roll Call Voting and Interest-Group Ratings
165
19
Committees and Roll Calls
184
26
Abstention from Roll Call Voting
210
17
The Unidimensional Congress
227
6
Appendix A: The NOMINATE Method of Estimating Spatial Models of Voting
233
19
Appendix B: The Dimensionality of Spatial Voting
252
7
Appendix C: Roll Call Coding Categories
259
4
Notes
263
18
References
281
10
Index
291