Issue politics in Congress / Tracy Sulkin.

By:

Sulkin, Tracy

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 207 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

0511140010
9780511140013
9780511140785
0511140789
9780511616013
0511616015

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Issue politics in Congress.DDC classification:

328.73 22

LOC classification:

JK468.P64 S85 2005eb

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Contents:

Electoral challenges and legislative responsiveness -- A theory of issue uptake -- The nature of campaign and legislative agendas -- Assessing uptake -- Who responds?: explaining individual variation in uptake -- Patterns of responsiveness in Congress -- The electoral impacts of uptake -- Uptake and public policy -- Elections, governance, and representation.

Summary: This book explores how legislators respond to their electoral challengers' critiques. The conventional wisdom is that winners ignore their challengers, but Sulkin shows that their campaigns have a lasting legacy in the content of legislators' behavior in office.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-201) and index.

This book explores how legislators respond to their electoral challengers' critiques. The conventional wisdom is that winners ignore their challengers, but Sulkin shows that their campaigns have a lasting legacy in the content of legislators' behavior in office.

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