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Shirking in the Contemporary Congress: A Reappraisal

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Jamie L. Carson ,
Michael H. Crespin ,
Jeffery A. Jenkins  and
Ryan J. Vander Wielen
Jamie L. Carson
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Florida International University, DM480, Miami, FL 33199. e-mail: jamie.carson@fiu.edu
Michael H. Crespin
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Michigan State University, 303 S. Kedzie Hall, East Lansing, MI 48824. e-mail: crespinm@msu.edu
Jeffery A. Jenkins
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 601 University Place, Evanston, IL 60208. e-mail: j-jenkins3@northwestern.edu
Ryan J. Vander Wielen
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, Campus Box 1027, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130. e-mail: rjvander@artsci.wustl.edu
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Abstract

This paper replicates the findings that appeared in the article “Severing the Electoral Connection: Shirking in the Contemporary Congress,” published in the American Journal of Political Science (44:316–325), in which Lawrence Rothenberg and Mitchell Sanders incorporated a new research design and, contrary to all previous studies, found evidence of ideological shirking in the U.S. House of Representatives. We investigate the robustness of their results by reestimating their model with Congress-specific fixed effects and find that their results no longer hold.

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Replications and Extensions
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Political Analysis , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , Spring 2004 , pp. 176 - 179
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Copyright © Society for Political Methodology 2004 

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