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• Author/Creator:Carson, Jamie L.
  
• Title:Electoral Incentives in Congress [electronic resource] / Jamie L. Carson and Joel Sievert.
  
• ISBN:0472123750
  9780472123759
  047213079X
  9780472130795
  
• Published/Created:Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
  
• Physical Description:1 online resource.
  
• Links:Online book
  

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• Summary:"David Mayhew's (1974) thesis regarding the "electoral connection" and its impact on legislative behavior has become the theoretical foundation for much of the existing research on the modern U.S. Congress. In its most basic form, Mayhew's theory contends that once in office, legislators pursue whatever actions put them in the best position to achieve reelection. The electoral connection has traditionally been considered a phenomenon of the post-World War II environment, but legislative scholars have begun to suggest that Mayhew's argument applies to politics in earlier congressional eras as well. To assess these disparate claims more systematically, Carson and Sievert investigate whether legislators in earlier historical eras were motivated by many of the same factors that influence their behavior today, especially with regard to the pursuit of reelection. In this respect, they examine the role of electoral incentives in shaping legislative behavior across a wide swath of the nineteenth century. This entails looking at patterns of turnover in Congress across this period, the politics underlying renomination of candidates, the changing role of parties in recruiting candidates to run and its broader effect on candidate competition, as well as electoral accountability across a variety of dimensions. The results have wide-ranging implications for the evolution of Congress and the development of various legislative institutions over time"--
  
• Variant and related titles:Project MUSE - 2018 Complete.
  Project MUSE - 2018 History.
  
• Other formats:Print version: Carson, Jamie L., author. Electoral incentives in Congress Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018
  
• Format:Book
• Series:Legislative politics and policy making
  UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
  
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Contemporary and historical evidence for an electoral connection -- Unpacking the electoral connection -- Candidates and competition in US House races, 1820-88 -- Nomination and turnover patterns in the US House -- Ballots, election timing, and the personal vote -- Electoral accountability in US House elections -- Reevaluating electoral incentives in Congress.
  
• Subjects:United States. Congress--Elections.
  United States. Congress--History--19th century.
  Legislators--United States--History--19th century.
  
• Also listed under:Sievert, Joel.
  Project Muse.