Representation in Congress

A Unified Theory

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Representation in Congress provides a theory of dyadic policy representation intended to account for when belief sharing, delegate, responsible party, trustee, and 'party elite led' models of representational linkage arise on specific policy issues. The book also presents empirical tests of most of the fundamental predictions for when such alternative models appear, and it presents tests of novel implications of the theory about other aspects of legislative behavior. Some of the latter tests resolve contradictory findings in the relevant, existing literature - such as whether and how electoral marginality affects representation, whether roll call vote extremism affects the re-election of incumbents, and what in fact is the representational behavior of switched seat legislators. All of the empirical tests provide evidence for the theory. Indeed, the full set of empirical tests provides evidence for the causal effects anticipated by the theory and much of the causal process behind those effects.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-07-02
Mått:160 x 236 x 21 mm
Vikt:510 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:238
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107107816

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Statsvetenskap och politisk teori inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Kim Hill is the Cullen-McFadden Professor of Political Science and Presidential Professor of Teaching Excellence at Texas A & M University. He is the author, co-author, and editor of several political science textbooks and of the following books of original research: Toward a New Strategy of Development (1979), The Criminal's Image of the City (1979), Democracies in Crisis: Public Policy Responses to the Great Depression (1988) and Democracy in the Fifty States (1994). Professor Hill has also served as editor of the American Journal of Political Science and as the President of the Southern Political Science Association. He has been on the editorial boards of a number of professional journals, and he has served in a variety of leadership roles in national and regional political science professional associations. Soren Jordan is a PhD candidate in the Department of Political Science at Texas A & M University. His research has appeared in the Forum. Patricia Hurley is a Professor of Political Science and the Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at Texas A & M University. Her articles have appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, Legislative Studies Quarterly and American Politics Quarterly, among others. Professor Hurley is a past president of the Southwestern Social Science Association and the Southwestern Political Science Association. She has been a member of the executive councils for the Legislative Studies Section and the Elections, Voting Behavior and Public Opinion Section, both organized sections of the American Political Science Association. She has been a member of the National Science Foundation's Advisory Panel for the Political Science grants program and of the Committee of Visitors for the Political Science program at the National Science Foundation. She also presently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Politics and the American Journal of Political Science, and has been a member of editorial boards for a number of other political science journals.

Recensioner i media

'Representation in Congress pushes our parsimonious understanding of policy representation forward in qualitative and consequential ways. Over the past sixty years, scholars have proposed a diverse and largely disconnected set of models to explain how legislators represent their constituents in roll call voting. These include belief-sharing, delegate, responsible party, trustee, and party elite-led perspectives on representation. Hill, Jordan, and Hurley propose that all such forms of representation occur in Congress, but that they occur in very different contexts.' Lawrence C. Dodd, Manning J. Dauer Eminent Scholar in Political Science, University of Florida

Innehållsförteckning

1. The scientific study of constituency representation; 2. The party polarization and issue complexity theory of dyadic representation; 3. The research design and data for the principal verification tests for the party polarization and issue complexity theory; 4. Verification tests for the original predictions about patterns of representational linkage; 5. Novel implications of the theory about elections and representation; 6. Electoral marginality and constituency representation; 7. Conclusions, implications, and future research.