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Meinke, Scott. "Vote Choice and Vote Change in the Antebellum House: Evidence from the Gag Rule, 1836-1845" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 08, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64631_index.html>

Meinke, S. , 2003-08-08 "Vote Choice and Vote Change in the Antebellum House: Evidence from the Gag Rule, 1836-1845" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia Marriott Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p64631_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: From the 24th through the 28th Congresses, the House of Representatives operated under a self-imposed �gag rule� that blocked receipt of petitions for the abolition of slavery or the slave trade. The decade-long series of recurring House votes on the gag rule represent not only a significant and underemphasized part of the antebellum debate over slavery but also an excellent context in which to test a number of propositions about member decision making. In this paper, I analyze members� voting records on the gag rule. I show, first, that partisanship as well as constituency and electoral considerations are related to gag rule voting. I then show that some members reversed their gag rule positions over time, and I use event history analysis to demonstrate that they did so in systematic ways; I also discuss the contributions of these position reversals and member replacement to policy change. These dynamics of gag rule politics, I argue, illustrate important dynamics within the second party system.

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