Changing Minds? Not in Congress

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KPKeith T. Poole
Keith T. Poole

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1 January 2003

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Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal

DOI:10.2139/ssrn.1154122

Abstract

This paper shows a variety of evidence that members of Congress are ideologically consistent. Based upon the roll call voting record, once elected to Congress,

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