Congressional roll-call votes are often used to investigate legislative voting behavior. To depict adaptive roll-call behavior in response to demographic changes that occur during redistricting, I use issue specific interest group scores from the ADA, NFU, and COPE. This exploits the bias in the selection of the issues that interest groups utilize to rate U.S. representatives, by using them to reflect changes in response to significant demographic fluctuations in the constituency population. The findings indicate that while party is the most significant factor in whether legislators adapt their voting in favor of certain groups, they do notice group composition changes within district and adapt their voting accordingly. This illustrates the impact of redistricting on policy and legislators' adaptation to changes in district composition.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc3254 |
| Date | 08 1900 |
| Creators | Dunaway, Johanna |
| Contributors | Feigert, Frank, Forde, Steven, Smith, Donald Wiley |
| Publisher | University of North Texas |
| Source Sets | University of North Texas |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | Text |
| Rights | Public, Copyright, Dunaway, Johanna, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. |
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