Trustee Role
–→ Access to information –→ Expertise –→ Divided constituency –→ Uninformed constituency –→ Salience of issue (extent to which the issue is relevant to you) –→ Difficulty determining what voters want |
Delegate Model
Politico Model
Partisan Model (Party Line)
• If a member votes according to how his/her political party wants him/her to vote
–o Said to act as a partisan and engage in partisan voting –o Best predictor of congressional voting –o Strong influence on economic and social welfare issues –o Less influence on foreign policy and civil liberties issues • Vote as a partisan because of: –→ Pressure party leaders put on members to vote according to party views –→ Use of reciprocity among members (exchange of favors) |