Midterm congressional elections: ET papers

The American Political Science Review (APSR), for its centennial, went through the citation counts for the thousands of articles it published in the last hundred years. For the 20 most-cited articles, the authors (or their surrogates) were asked to write an account of their citation classic.

Here then is my nostalgic account of another career and of “Determinants of the Outcomes of Midterm Congressional Elections,” APSR, 69 (September 1975), 812-826. After that, the original article is reproduced, then followed by another APSR paper of mine, which I think is a stronger paper, although it ranked only in the all-time top 60 cited papers: “The Relationship Between Seats and Votes in Two-Party Systems,” APSR, 67 (June 1973), 540-554.

Determinants of the Outcomes of Midterm Congressional Elections, APSR, 69 (September 1975), 812-826.

The Relationship Between Seats and Votes in Two-Party Systems, APSR, 67 (June 1973), 540-554.

Other ET citation-classic accounts are:

Political Control of the Economy


The Visual Display of Quantitative Information