Electoral Incentives in Congress

AvJamie L. Carson,Joel Sievert

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Legislative Politics and Policy Making

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David Mayhew’s 1974 thesis on the “electoral connection” and its impact on legislative behavior is the theoretical foundation for research on the modern U.S. Congress. Mayhew contends that once in office, legislators pursue the actions that put them in the best position for reelection. Carson and Sievert examine how electoral incentives shaped legislative behavior throughout the nineteenth century by looking at patterns of turnover in Congress; the renomination of candidates; the roles of parties in recruiting candidates and their broader effects on candidate competition; and, finally by examining legislators’ accountability. The results have wide-ranging implications for the evolution of Congress and the development of legislative institutions over time.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-05-25
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Legislative Politics and Policy Making
Antal sidor:214
Förlag:The University of Michigan Press
ISBN:9780472130795

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Jamie L. Carson is the UGA Athletic Association Professor of Public and International Affairs II in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia.Joel Sievert is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Texas Tech University.

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"...Carson and Sievert succeed in presenting a new, interesting, and important picture of the politics of congressional elections during the nineteenth century that should (and hopefully will) be of interest to a wide range of scholars of congressional elections, political history, and American political development. The authors offer an alternative picture to the dominant conventional wisdom surrounding electoral politics during this era; and their empirical findings should serve as a foundation that other scholars can build upon in their future theoretical and empirical scholarship on these topics."—Congress & the Presidency