A House Divided––But Along Which Dimensions? District-Level Drivers of Legislator Behavior and Institutional Structure in the U.S. House of Representatives

• In Event: Partisan Heterogeneity in a Polarized Congress

Brief Overview

I focus on the dynamic relationship between district-level socioeconomic factors and the partisanship of a House district's representative from 1972-2014. I link these relationships with changes in legislative institutions during this period.

Author

• Austin Bussing, Trinity University