Keena, Alex and Knight-Finley, Misty (2018) Why electing former governors may help ease the partisan gridlock in the US Senate. USApp - American Politics and Policy Blog (25 Jan 2018). Website.
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The US Senate now hosts more than 20 former state governors, a group which played an important role in ending the recent government shutdown. In new research, Alex Keena and Misty Knight-Finley examine the bipartisan role that former governors play in the US' upper house. They find that former governors were 8 percent more likely to vote with the other side, compared to legislators who had not previously been in charge of a state.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog |
| Additional Information: | © 2018 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JK Political institutions (United States) |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jun 2018 13:54 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 13:30 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/88519 |
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