The senate and justice thomas: A note on ideology, race, and constituent pressures

L. Marvin Overby

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The senate and justice thomas: A note on ideology, race, and constituent pressures

L. Marvin Overby

Penn State Harrisburg

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Several recent studies concluded that constituent preferences have a significant impact on senators' roll call behavior on Supreme Court confirmation votes, but the exact nature of this influence is unclear. In this paper, I analyze the Senate vote on Justice Clarence Thomas using ideological, demographic, and electoral measures of constituent pressures. The fact that both the interactive racial/reelection and the ideology variables remain significant in a combined model confirms the importance of this matter for further research.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	131-136
Number of pages	6
Journal	Congress and the Presidency
Volume	21
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/07343469409507883
State	Published - 1994

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Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations

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