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Senatorial decision making: I. The determination of structure
Author(s) -
Wainer Howard,
Gruvaeus Gunnar,
Zill Nicholas
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
behavioral science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.371
H-Index - 45
eISSN - 1099-1743
pISSN - 0005-7940
DOI - 10.1002/bs.3830180103
Subject(s) - popularity , voting , roll call , ideology , mode (computer interface) , point (geometry) , set (abstract data type) , political science , public administration , operations research , politics , law , computer science , mathematics , geometry , programming language , operating system
A three‐mode factor analysis of the U. S. Senate roll call voting was performed. The modes were: issues, time and Senator seats. The entries into the data matrix were the point biserial correlations of a Senator's votes on a particular issue in a particular time period with the popularity of the roll calls in that set. Five Senator factors were found, indicating the various voting coalitions. There were indications of the ideological, geographic and partisan structure within the Senate. There was also the formulation of the factors of time change which indicate how coalitions vary across time.