Interpreting the Coefficient of Party Influence: Comment on Krehbiel

In: Political analysis: PA ; the official journal of the Society for Political Methodology and the Political Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 104-107

Abstract

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.