Beyond bias: A rejoinder to Ellis and King

Studies in American Political Development

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 46-49

  Wirls, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 0033431994     PISSN: 0898588X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x99001959     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. Ronald F. King and Susan Ellis, "Partisan Advantage and Constitutional Change: The Case of the Seventeenth Amendment," Studies in American Political Development 10 (1996): 92.
2. Later in the 62nd Congress the admission of Arizona and New Mexico brings the total Senate seats to 96, with a 52-44 Republican majority.
3. Charles Stewart III and Barry R. Weingast, "Stacking the Senate, Changing the Nation: Republican Rotten Boroughs, Statehood Politics, and American Political Development," Studies in American Political Development 6 (1992): 223-71.
4. If the average Senate was 53 percent Republican (and 47 percent Democrat) and the average House 50 percent Republican (and 50 percent Democrat), the bias is 3 percent rather than 6 percent, because both parties cannot simultaneously enjoy a 53 percent majority in the same chamber. The House is the baseline against which bias is being measured.
5. Ellis and King use both modifiers: Again, "The Senate, we believe, was freed from state legislative control primarily to enhance the Democratic party's ability to place its agents in office" (King and Ellis, "Partisan Advantage," 92) and "Our research has explored the impact of one causal variable, necessary but not sufficient" (ibid.).
6. Ellis and King use both modifiers: Again, "The Senate, we believe, was freed from state legislative control primarily to enhance the Democratic party's ability to place its agents in office" (King and Ellis, "Partisan Advantage," 92) and "Our research has explored the impact of one causal variable, necessary but not sufficient" (ibid.).