Polarization and ideology: Partisan sources of low dimensionality in scaled roll call analyses

Political Analysis

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 435-456

  Aldrich, John H ^a   Montgomery, Jacob M ^b   Sparks, David B ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84929396908     PISSN: 10471987     EISSN: 14764989     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pan/mpt048     Document Type: Article

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