Are legislators ideologues or the agents of constituents?

European Economic Review

Volumn 40, Issue 3-5, 1996, Pages 707-717

  Poole, Keith T ^a   Rosenthal, Howard ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent of constituent; Ideologue; Legislatures; NOMINATE procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0006776084     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0014-2921(95)00080-1     Document Type: Article

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