TY  - JOUR
TT  - Uncovering the Party Effect in the US Congress
AU  - Bulut, Alper Tolga
PY  - 2018
DA  - June
DO  - 10.19060/gav.437821
JF  - Gazi Akademik Bakış
PB  - Hale Fatma ŞIVGIN
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1307-9778
SP  - 291
EP  - 304
VL  - 11
IS  - 22
LA  - en
KW  - congress
KW  - party effect
KW  - us
N2  - Although there has been a voluminous literature on American foreign policy and its effect on severalregions, research on American domestic politics has been relatively scarce. Due to its significant impacton foreign policy formation, the Presidency received a lot of scholarly attention. This paper, on the otherhand, focuses on another important actor in American foreign and domestic policy: The United StatesCongress. In this respect, we specifically aim to contribute to the literature on American Congress whichaims to uncover the party effect on legislative behavior. Current studies on the topic usually rely on rollcallvotes. Although this method has been quite popular, recent studies indicate problems in terms ofmeasuring the true effect of the party. Hence, this study proposes an alternative method which has beenwidely used in the European Politics literature. The proposed methods involves using expert surveys todetermine the level of party effect.
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.19060/gav.437821
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/495872
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