[BOOK][B] Analyzing spatial models of choice and judgment

DA Armstrong, R Bakker, R Carroll, C Hare, KT Poole… - 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
With recent advances in computing power and the widespread availability of preference,
perception and choice data, such as public opinion surveys and legislative voting, the …

The Case of the Dishonest Scrivener: Gouverneur Morris and the Creation of the Federalist Constitution

WM Treanor - Mich. L. Rev., 2021 - HeinOnline
At the end of the Constitutional Convention, the delegates appointed the Com-mittee of Style
and Arrangement to bring together the textual provisions that the Convention had previously …

Political action and party formation in the United States Constitutional Convention

A Slez, JL Martin - American Sociological Review, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
Using data on state voting patterns, we examine the positions taken by state delegations on
questions that arose over the course of the United States Constitutional Convention of 1787 …

[BOOK][B] The calculus of consent and constitutional design

KL Dougherty, J Edward - 2011 - Springer
Buchanan and Tullock's seminal work, The Calculus of Consent, linked economic
methodology to substantive questions in political science. Among the major contributions of …

Reconsidering the Great Compromise at the Federal Convention of 1787: Deliberation and agenda effects on the Senate and slavery

JC Pope, S Treier - American Journal of Political Science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional accounts of the Federal Convention of 1787 point to the many different
compromises made at the convention, specifically the Great Compromise on representation …

A spatial analysis of delegate voting at the Constitutional Convention

JC Heckelman, KL Dougherty - The Journal of Economic History, 2013 - cambridge.org
Previous studies of the US Constitutional Convention have relied on votes recorded for the
state blocs or a relatively small number of delegate votes. We construct a new data set …

[BOOK][B] Schools for Statesmen: The Divergent Educations of the Constitution's Framers

AH Browning - 2022 - books.google.com
“Whatever Principles are imbibed at College will run thro'a Man's whole future Conduct.”—
William Livingston, signer of the Constitution Schools for Statesmen explores the fifty-five …

Coalitional Instability and the Three‐Fifths Compromise

G Ballingrud, KL Dougherty - American Journal of Political …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Were the initial apportionments of the US House of Representatives and the US Senate
inevitable? This article determines the coalitional stability of apportionment rules considered …

Map** dimensions of conflict at the Federal Convention of 1787

JC Pope, S Treier - Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Previous work on the Federal Convention of 1787 hypothesized multiple dimensions of
conflict. We evaluate the dimensionality of conflict using a new method for estimating state …

The basic space of a revolutionary parliament: Scaling the Frankfurt Assembly of 1848/49

M Herrmann, U Sieberer - Party Politics, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
We examine whether there is a basic space in a parliament which grew out of a revolution
and had no prior history of parliamentarism: the Frankfurt Assembly of 1848/49. We scale all …