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- Influence
Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting
- K. Poole, H. Rosenthal
- Political Science
- 30 January 1997
In this wide-ranging study, the authors use 200 years of congressional roll call voting as a framework for an interpretation of important episodes in American political and economic history. By… Expand
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches
- N. Mccarty, K. Poole, H. Rosenthal
- Political Science
- 16 June 2006
The idea of America as politically polarized—that there is an unbridgeable divide between right and left, red and blue states—has become a cliche. What commentators miss, however, is that increasing… Expand
A Spatial Model for Legislative Roll Call Analysis
- K. Poole, H. Rosenthal
- Political Science
- 1 May 1985
A general nonlinear logit model is used to analyze political choice data. The model assumes probabilistic voting based on a spatial utility function. The parameters of the utility function and the… Expand
Spatial Models of Parliamentary Voting
- K. Poole
- Political Science
- 2005
1. Introduction 2. The geometry of parliamentary roll call voting 3. The optimal classification method 4. Probabilistic spatial models of parliamentary voting 5. Practical issues in computing spatial… Expand
Poverty, the Coup Trap, and the Seizure of Executive Power
- J. Londregan, K. Poole
- Economics
- 1990
The transfer of power through the use of military force is a commonplace event in world affairs. Although no two coups d'etat are alike, they all have a common denominator: poverty. We analyze… Expand
Why Hasn't Democracy Slowed Rising Inequality?
- Adam Bonica, N. Mccarty, K. Poole, H. Rosenthal
- Economics
- 1 August 2013
During the past two generations, democratic forms have coexisted with massive increases in economic inequality in the United States and many other advanced democracies. Moreover, these new… Expand
Patterns of congressional voting
- K. Poole, H. Rosenthal
- Political Science
- 1 February 1991
Congressional roll call voting has been highly structured for most of U.S. history. The structure is revealed by a dynamic, spatial analysis of the entire roll call voting record from 1789 to 1985.… Expand
RECOVERING A BASIC SPACE FROM A SET OF ISSUE SCALES
- K. Poole
- Economics
- 1 July 1998
This paper develops a scaling procedure for estimating the latent/unobservable dimensions underlying a set of manifest/observable variables. The scaling procedure performs, in effect, a singular… Expand
The Polarization of American Politics
- K. Poole, H. Rosenthal
- Political Science
- The Journal of Politics
- 1 November 1984
Elected officials in the United States appear to represent relatively extreme support coalitions rather than the interests of middle-of-the-road voters. This contention is supported by analysis of… Expand
Measuring Bias and Uncertainty in DW-NOMINATE Ideal Point Estimates via the Parametric Bootstrap
- R. Carroll, J. Lewis, James Lo, K. Poole, H. Rosenthal
- 20 June 2009
DW-NOMINATE scores for the U.S. Congress are widely used measures of legislators' ideological locations over time. These scores have been used in a large number of studies in political science and… Expand