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Incongruent Voting or Symbolic Representation? Asymmetrical Representation in Congress, 2008–2014

Overview of attention for article published in Perspectives on Politics, December 2020
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • Among the highest-scoring outputs from this source (#44 of 2,179)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (95th percentile)

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news
4 news outlets
blogs
1 blog
policy
1 policy source
twitter
90 X users
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
90 Redditors
bluesky
30 Bluesky users

Readers on

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9 Mendeley
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Article details
Title
Incongruent Voting or Symbolic Representation? Asymmetrical Representation in Congress, 2008–2014
Published in
Perspectives on Politics, December 2020
DOI 10.1017/s1537592720003746
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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Unknown 9 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 22%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 22%
Researcher 1 11%
Student > Master 1 11%
Unknown 3 33%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 6 67%
Unknown 3 33%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 157. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 March 2026.
All research outputs
#331,331
of 34,552,530 outputs
Outputs from Perspectives on Politics
#44
of 2,179 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,421
of 569,751 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Perspectives on Politics
#2
of 44 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,552,530 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 99th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,179 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.4. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 44 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 95% of its contemporaries.