Measuring Representation: Estimating Common Space Measures of Constituency, Voter and Legislator Ideology for Congress and State Legislative Districts

• In Event: Analyzing Legislative Representation: Why Measurement Matters

Brief Overview

This paper develops a new method to estimate the ideology of legislators, their constituencies, and their general election voters for the US Congress and all state legislative districts on a common-space scale.

Author

• Lynda Powell, University of Rochester