Polarization of congressional parties emerges as the ideological distribution of congressional seats changes.
The disappearance of these members brings party and constituency preferences into better alignment, thus allowing for the repolarization of congressional parties.
Thus, the re-polarization of congressional elections lagged behind the polarization of national presidential politics.
The average (199,685) is derived from total numbers of votes cast in the 1996 congressional election (86,863,000) divided by the number of seats elected (435).
For both issues, the divergence between presidential and congressional elections becomes apparent from around 1964.
Again, the interest group coefficient is diminished from 3.801 to 2.723 under higher levels of congressional observation.
Those agencies whose outputs are close to the ideal of the congressional median should be more durable than other agencies.
Congressional committees responsible for appropriations to fund preservation activities in federal libraries recognized the importance of eliminating the use of acid paper for government publications.
