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Reassessing the incumbency effect / Jeffrey M. Stonecash.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stonecash, Jeffrey M., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Incumbency (Public officers)--United States.
- Incumbency (Public officers).
- Elections--United States.
- Elections.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 169 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Incumbents in the US House of Representatives have increased their vote percentages in recent decades, raising questions about the efficacy of elections in making members responsive. The evidence, however, indicates there has been no improvement in the electoral fortunes of incumbents in the last 50 years. Only Republicans have improved their electoral fortunes as a result of realignment. This valuable book provides a very different interpretation of how incumbents have fared in recent decades, and the interpretation is supported by non-technical data analysis and presentation.
- Contents:
- An increased incumbency effect and American politics
- The consensus about a greater incumbency effect
- The trend in incumbent vote percentages
- Cumulative career changes
- The retirement slump
- An alternative framework : the role of realignment
- A partisan view of incumbent percentages
- The role of realignment
- Conclusions and implications.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-165) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-19051-7
- 0-511-73722-X
- 0-511-47976-X
- 9786612001420
- 1-282-00142-6
- 0-511-47735-X
- 0-511-48056-3
- 0-511-47591-8
- 0-511-75618-6
- 0-511-47887-9
- OCLC:
- 437089980
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