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Table 3
Labour Rebellions on Three High-Profile Votes
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Model 6 Model 7 Model 8 Model 9 Model 10 Model 11
Dependent
Variable Coefficient SE Coefficient SE Coefficient SE Coefficient SE Coefficient SE Coefficient SE
Office status
Former minister 18.464*** 3.556 19.681*** 6.006 16.702 — 23.284 — 17.580*** 4.919 21.098** 8.607
Not promoted 18.919*** 3.524 21.233*** 3.817 18.285*** 1.242 19.914*** 4.811 17.906*** 4.916 22.894*** 5.839
Policy preferences
Left-right –0.363* 0.190 –0.326 0.448 –0.438* 0.231 –0.315 0.552 –0.521** 0.230 0.550 0.586
self-placement
Distance from 0.136 0.299 0.111 0.317 1.014** 0.397 0.980** 0.430 1.497*** 0.419 1.337** 0.472
party mean
Constituency effects
Majority size –0.919 1.993 –1.991 7.088 4.428 3.848 1.041 9.647 –1.203 2.773 –25.430** 12.319
Constituency –0.547** 0.277 –0.566* 0.294 0.555 0.538 0.535 0.563 –0.015 0.398 –0.247 0.453
median voter
% Muslim 0.034 0.050 0.040 0.051
% poor health 0.021 0.083 0.006 0.085
% students 0.084 0.058 0.090 0.061
Controls
Standing down in 2005 0.390 0.890 0.593 0.902 –1.260 1.429 –1.347 1.472 –0.896 1.384 –0.473 1.406
Years as MP –0.012 0.030 0.109 0.107 0.079** 0.039 0.259 0.292 0.061 0.038 0.460** 0.222
Interactions
Majority Size × 0.201 1.599 0.746 2.146 5.157** 2.615
Right–Left
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