Seeing Behind the Curtain: A Closer Look at Partisanship in Committees Through Ideal Point Estimation

• In Event: Party, Ideology, and Persuasion

Brief Overview

This study estimates ideal points for legislators and their committee votes on a common space to their floor votes measured through DW-Nominate (Poole and Rosenthal 2005) with the hope of contributing towards our understanding of committee behavior.

Author

• Alexandria Putman, University of Georgia