Cracks in the Cartel: How Variation in Need for the Party Brand Affects Partisan Activity in the U.S. House of Representatives

• In Event: Leadership, Caucus, and Coalition Politics

Brief Overview

This paper theorizes, operationalizes, and measures individual legislators’ need for their party’s brand, and models observable contributions to (or defections from) that brand as a function of this need.

Author

• Austin Bussing, Trinity University