Intraparty Bargaining in the U.S. House

• In Event: Debate, Bargaining, and Partisanship

Brief Overview

We model intraparty factions (or caucuses) and provide evidence that votes in the U.S. House can be better understood as the outcome of a bargaining process rather than as the outcome of a spatial location game.

Authors

• Scott De Marchi, Duke University

• Michael Ensley, Kent State University at Kent