Index: Analyzing Congress Chapter 1 Figures

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Overheads 10 September 2002
Overheads 12 September 2002
Overheads 17 and 19 September 2002
Summary: Changes in Congress 1947 - 2002
Figures From Poole and Rosenthal, Chapter 2
The 107^th Congress and the Iraq War Resolution
The Ideological Structure of Congressional Voting
The Polarization of the Congressional Parties
The Roman Senate and Strategic Voting

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Figure 1.1: Competition for Customers Between Two Shop Owners
Figure 1.2: Competition for Two Candidates for Votes
Figure 1.3: Voting in a Committee over Two Minimum Wage Proposals, X and Y
Figure 1.4: Symmetrical Utility Curve
Figure 1.5: Asymmetrical Utility Curve
Figure 1.6: Two Non-Single-Peaked Curves
Figure 1.7: Median Voter Result Example
Figure 1.8: Illustration of Median Voter Proof
Figure 1.9: Ideal Points in Two Dimensions
Figure 1.10: Member C's Utility Curve
Two Dimensional Utility Function (Ordeshook)
Indifference Curves Over Two Issue Dimensions
Bivariate Normal Utility Function
Indifference Curves Over Two Issue Dimensions (Correlated Dimensions)
Bivariate Normal Utility Function (Correlated Dimensions)
Figure 1.11: Examples of Indifference Curves
Figure 1.12: Finding the Win Set
Figure 1.13: Win Set Against B's Ideal Curve
Figure 1.14: Win Set Against x
Figure 1.15: Far-Ranging Agenda from...
Figure 1.16: Highly Symmetric Configurations of Ideal Points Create an Equilibrium of Tastes
Figure 1.17: The Powell Amendment in One and Two Dimensions
Figure 1.18: Different Salience Weights Along Two Spending Dimensions
Figure 1.19: How Elliptical Indifference Curves Can Encourage "Too Much" Spending
Figure 1.20: Voting Tree for Powell Amendment
Figure 1.21: Full Voting Tree
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