Explaining Differences in Voting Patterns Across Voting Domains Using Hierarchical Bayesian Models

• In Event: Advances in Measurement of Ideology and Party Loyalty

Brief Overview

We use a Bayesian hierarchical model to identify explanatory variables related to disparate voting behavior for procedural versus final passage votes in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Authors

• Erin Rose Lipman, University of Washington

• Scott Moser, University of Nottingham

• Abel Rodriguez, University of Washington