Referenda as Report Cards on Legislative Representation

• In Event: Elections and Accountability

Brief Overview

Legislators’ views of district opinion have a conservative bias (Broockman and Skovron 2019). Using veto referenda election returns as measures of district opinion, we investigate if such bias also appears in their roll call votes.

Authors

• Dan Butler, Washington University in St Louis

• Zoe M Nemerever, Texas Tech University

• Steven Rogers, Saint Louis University