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Causal Linkages Between Constituents' Evaluations of Their Federal Legislators

Vassar College

Some of the literature on Congress has suggested that constituents' evaluations of 1 of their 3 federal legislators should be influenced by their opinions of another, but virtually no systematic research has been directed at this topic. Employing LISREL covariance structure analysis, I demonstrate that a number of these interlegislator relationships do exist in 1988 and 1990. The key factor shaping these linkages seems to be relative legislator salience; that is, linkage between officeholders of disparate saliency takes the form of a positively signed effect flowing from the more visible official, whereas any relationship between legislators of approximately equal saliency is more likely to be of a negative kind.

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