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Electoral Incentives in Congress (Hardcover)
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Electoral Incentives in Congress (Hardcover)
Series: Legislative Politics and Policy Making
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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.
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