Download This PaperChanging Minds? Not in Congress
39 Pages Posted: 1 Jul 2008
Date Written: January 13, 2003
Abstract
This paper shows a variety of evidence that members of Congress are ideologically consistent. Based upon the roll call voting record, once elected to Congress, members adopt a consistent ideological position and maintain it over time. There may be changing minds, but they are not in Congress.
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