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HETEROGENEITY, ELECTORAL COMPETITIVENESS AND CONGRESSIONAL VOTING BEHAVIOR

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1975
Summary:
This represents a study of the relationships between congressional district demographic characteristics, electoral competitiveness and representative voting behavior. Census data is used to compute heterogeneity scores for all congressional districts. Literature dealing with the effect of urbanization on electoral competitiveness and studies on the impact of competitiveness on congressional voting behavior are discussed. A hypothesis on the relationship between heterogeneity and electoral voting behavior is presented. Two hypotheses on the relationships between heterogeneity and congressional voting behavior are presented. Congressional behavior is measured by party unity and conservativeness. Correlational techniques arc used to study all three suggested relationships and some knowledge of such techniques is advised.
Title: HETEROGENEITY, ELECTORAL COMPETITIVENESS AND CONGRESSIONAL VOTING BEHAVIOR.
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Name(s): WIENER, DON EDWARD.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Huckshorn, Robert J., Thesis advisor
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Department of Political Science
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1975
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 67 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: This represents a study of the relationships between congressional district demographic characteristics, electoral competitiveness and representative voting behavior. Census data is used to compute heterogeneity scores for all congressional districts. Literature dealing with the effect of urbanization on electoral competitiveness and studies on the impact of competitiveness on congressional voting behavior are discussed. A hypothesis on the relationship between heterogeneity and electoral voting behavior is presented. Two hypotheses on the relationships between heterogeneity and congressional voting behavior are presented. Congressional behavior is measured by party unity and conservativeness. Correlational techniques arc used to study all three suggested relationships and some knowledge of such techniques is advised.
Identifier: 13744 (digitool), FADT13744 (IID), fau:10576 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1975.
Subject(s): United States--Congress--House--Election districts
Held by: Florida Atlantic University Libraries
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