| Position-Taking Posts | District Mention Posts | ||
Independent Variables | Expectation | Coef. (s.e.) | Expectation | Coef. (s.e.) |
District Partisan Homogeneity | Positive | 0.013 (0.007)* | Negative | −0.029 (0.008)* |
Minority Party Member | Negative | −0.588 (0.189)* | Positive | 0.397 (0.180)* |
Bills Sponsored (count) | Positive | 0.032 (0.019)t | Null | −0.006 (0.023) |
Member Tenure | Negative | −0.031 (0.017)* | Negative | −0.021 (0.011)* |
Party Leaders | Undefineda | −1.09 (0.568) | Undefined | −1.09 (1.23) |
Tenure x Party Leader | Positive | 0.092 (0.022)* | Null | 0.034 (0.044) |
Chairs/Ranking Members | Undefined | −0.535 (0.414) | Undefined | −0.980 (0.540) |
Tenure × Chairs/Ranking | Positive | 0.034 (0.017)* | Negative | 0.043 (0.025)* |
Ideologue | Positive | 0.618 (0.284)* | Null | −0.376 (0.300) |
Female | Null | 0.201 (0.137)t | Null | 0.09 (0.16) |
Member Age | Null | 0.000 (0.000) | Null | −0.013 (0.007)* |
Medium Dist. Income (10,000’s $) | Positive | 0.008 (0.005)t | Negative | 0.004 (0.008) |
% District College Educated | Positive | −0.000 (0.003) | Negative | −0.008 (0.005)t |
Legislative Recessb | Negative | −0.293 (0.103)* | Positive | 0.817 (0.127)* |
Constant | −2.62 (0.52)* | −2.24 (0.47)* | ||
Wald Chi2 | 237.9* | 167.4* | ||
Pseudo R2 | 0.09 | 0.07 | ||
n-observations | 4159 | 4159 |