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We examine the proposition that legislative organization can be explained by the nature of party competition in elections. We argue that legislators in environments where two parties are competitive for majority status should be most likely to have delegated power to their leadership to constrain individualistic behavior within their party, which should in turn increase the spatial predictability of individual voting patterns. Using roll call votes and district-level electoral data from the U.S. state legislatures, we show empirically that increased statewide interparty competition strongly corresponds to much more predictable voting behavior overall, while legislators from competitive districts have the least predictable |
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