Party loyalty and legislative success are loyal majority party members more successful in the U.S. House of Representatives?

Political Research Quarterly

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 607-617

  Hasecke, Edward B ^a   Mycoff, Jason D ^b  

^a WITTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Legislative success; Party government; Party loyalty

Indexed keywords

EID: 36649038333     PISSN: 10659129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1065912907305754     Document Type: Article

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