Party switching and the procedural party agenda in the US house of representatives

Abstract

I would like to thank Mike Crespin, Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Chuck Finocchiaro, Craig Goodman, Keith Poole, Lucio Renno, and the Research Group on Legislative Party Switching for helpful comments and suggestions. I would also like to acknowledge Keith Poole and David Rohde for providing data utilized in this chapter. Special thanks to Keith Poole for his generous help in calculating the DW-NOMINATE scores utilized in this analysis. I also want to recognize Carol Mershon and William Heller for their work in creating the Research Group on Legislative Party Switching and spurring me to think hard about placing party switching in the United States within a larger comparative framework.