Cooptation in Congress: The Effect of 2016 Third-Party Voting on Legislative Behavior

• In Event: Minor Parties and Ideological Factions

Brief Overview

We investigate whether members of Congress in districts with larger shares of third-party voters during the 2016 election were more active on third-party issues in the four years after the election compared to the four years prior.

Authors

• Nicole Asmussen Mathew, Oakland University

• Nash Salami, Oakland University