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The Effects of Measurement and Methods Decisions on Committee Preference Outlier Results

Mary Sprague

Stanford University, Stanford, California

Studies of outlying committee preferences have been conducted with different preference measures and methodological approaches and have generated conflicting results. To assess the effects of these study design differences, I use multiple methodological approaches to examine committee-floor differences with jurisdiction-specific interest group data during a longer time period than earlier studies. After comparing results across methods, I compare them to past findings using the same method but different preference measures. I find that differences in preference measures largely explain previous contradictory results. Additionally, outlying tendencies exist among all committees expected to be outliers under conditional claims of the distributive theory.

Key Words: congressional committees • preference outliers • distributive theory • informational theory

Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 61, No. 2, 309-318 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/1065912907313205


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