Using supercomputers, the authors have analysed 16 million individual roll call votes since the two Houses of Congress began recording votes in 1789. By tracing the voting patterns of Congress throughout the country's history, Poole and Rosenthal find that, despite a wide array of issues facing legislators, over 80 per cent of a legislator's voting decisions can be attributed to a consistent ideological position ranging from ultraconservatixm to ultraliberalism.
- ISBN10 0195055772
- ISBN13 9780195055771
- Publish Date 30 January 1997 (first published 1 January 1997)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 27 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 310
- Language English