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A model of measuring partisan seat safety for the discussion of legislative dominance under divided government

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The study of divided government is one of important fields in public choice theory. American voters split their ballots as if intent on preserving divided party control. The U.S. House of Representatives has consistently been Democratic for much of the twentieth century. As indicated by Sprague, it is theoretically true that a number of significant consequences for partisan control of a legislature are entailed by the unequal distribution of seat safety under conditions of high levels of institutionalization. The problem is how to measure the institutionalization of partisan seat safety in a time-series. The model proposed by Sprague is somewhat awkward and complicated in measuring it. This paper provides a more plausible model and tests empirical data.

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  • Youngjae Jin, 1998. "A model of measuring partisan seat safety for the discussion of legislative dominance under divided government," Global Economic Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(2), pages 77-94.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:glecrv:v:27:y:1998:i:2:p:77-94
    DOI: 10.1080/12265089808449733
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