Table 3
Assessing Responsiveness:
Regression Analysis of Senators’ Ideologies by First Term in Office
Citizens’
Assessments
(Senate Election Study)
Roll Call Votes
(DW-NOMINATE)
First Term Not First Term
First Term Not First Term
0.308** 0.160 0.249*** 0.204***
Mean State Ideology
(0.155) (0.115) (0.068) (0.061)
0.113 0.248***
-0.002 0.025
Mean Party
Identifiers’ Ideology
(0.133) (0.087)
(0.059) (0.046)
-0.082 -0.236***
-0.067 -0.185***
State Democratic
Partisanship
(0.147)
(0.087)
(0.065)
(0.046)
0.005 0.007***
0.001 0.005***
Vote Share in Most
Recent Election
(0.007)
(0.003)
(0.003)
(0.001)
-1.267 -1.410***
-0.838**
-1.166***
Democrat
(0.794) (0.347) (0.349) (0.185)
3.241*** 3.627*** -0.589** -0.259
Intercept
(0.668) (0.404) (0.296) (0.214)
R
2
.637
.668
.845
.779
N
83
206
84
210
Entries are OLS regression coefficients. Standard errors are in parentheses.
* Significant at .10 (two-tailed). ** Significant at .05 (two-tailed). ***Significant at .01 (two-tailed).
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