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Interpreting the Coefficient of Party Influence: Comment on Krehbiel

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 January 2017

Tim Groseclose  and
James M. Snyder Jr.
Tim Groseclose
Affiliation:
Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 14305. e-mail: [email protected]
James M. Snyder Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science and Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307. e-mail: [email protected]
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Keith Krehbiel (2003) provides a thoughtful note that explains why the estimation strategy we proposed in Snyder and Groseclose (2000) cannot distinguish between majority-party influence and minority-party influence theories. We agree with Krehbiel's major points. In this note, we explain our disagreement with some of his minor points, and we suggest an additional assumption under which our method can distinguish between majority-party influence and minority-party influence.

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Replications and Extensions
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Political Analysis , Volume 11 , Issue 1 , Winter 2003 , pp. 104 - 107
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Copyright © Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association 2003 

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