VOTING IN THE UNITED-STATES HOUSE ON ABORTION FUNDING ISSUES - THE ROLE OF CONSTITUENTS AND LEGISLATORS IDEOLOGY, BEFORE AND AFTER THE WEBSTER DECISION
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Abstract. The Supreme Court's ruling in Webster v. Reproductive Health Services increased the political saliency of the abortion issue. Since prochoice and prolife groups within the constituencies of U.S. legislators paid closer attention to abortionrelated roll call votes after Webster, the legislatorsvoting behavior on such issues might have changed as a result of the decision. Accordingly, voting model estimates for abortion funding issues before and after Webster are used to examine changes in the role of legislators personal policy preferences and the role of policy preferences among their constituency on voting on this issue. The results show that legislators, to some extent, vote according to their personal preferences on abortion funding issues. Moreover, the influence of personal preferences on voting behavior did not change substantially after Webster, despite the change in the outcome of the vote. Copyright 1994, Wiley Blackwell. All rights reserved
