Abstract
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 | |
| State | Published - 1994 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Sociology and Political Science
- Political Science and International Relations
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