Deference or discipline?: Party defection and Senator behavior on executive nominations

• In Event: Interbranch Relations

Brief Overview

Based on original data on executive branch nominations, we examine senators’ decisions to vote the party line on confirmation votes or defect and vote with the other party, and the factors that drive individual senator’s likelihood of party defection

Authors

• Kris Miler, University of Maryland, College Park

• Ryan Bookstein, University of Maryland