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Accountability in state legislatures / Steven Rogers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rogers, Steven (Political scientist), author.
- Series:
- Chicago studies in American politics.
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Chicago studies in American politics
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Government accountability--United States.
- Government accountability.
- State governments--United States.
- State governments.
- Legislators--United States.
- Legislators.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- State legislatures hold tremendous authority over key facets of our lives, ranging from healthcare to marriage to immigration policy. In theory, elections create incentives for state legislators to produce good policies. But do they? Drawing on wide-ranging quantitative and qualitative evidence, Steven Rogers offers the most comprehensive assessment of this question to date, testing different potential mechanisms of accountability. His findings are sobering: almost 90% of American voters do not know who their state legislator is; over one-third of incumbent legislators run unchallenged in both primary and general elections; and election outcomes have little relationship with legislators' own behaviour.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Legislators Not Seeking Reelection: You Can't Fire Me If I Quit
- Challengers in State Legislative Elections: A Lack of Choice
- Who Represents You in the Legislature?
- What Do Voters Think About in State Legislative Elections?
- Accountability for Representation: "Out of Step" but Mostly Still In Office
- The Electoral Impact of Party Performance: All Politics Are Not Local
- "Accountability" in Primary Elections
- The Cracking Foundation of Statehouse Democracy.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Rogers, Steven Accountability in State Legislatures
- ISBN:
- 0-226-82723-2
- OCLC:
- 1382692964
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