Title Representation in congress : a unified theory / Kim Quaile Hill, Soren Jordan, Patricia Hurley

Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents 1. The scientific study of constituency representation -- 2. The party polarization and issue complexity theory of dyadic representation -- 3. The research design and data for the principal verification tests for the party polarization and issue complexity theory -- 4. Verification tests for the original predictions about patterns of representational linkage -- 5. Novel implications of the theory about elections and representation -- 6. Electoral marginality and constituency representation -- 7. Conclusions, implications, and future research Summary "Representation in Congress provides a theory of dyadic policy representation intended to account for when belief sharing, delegate, responsible party, trustee, and "party elite led" models of representational linkage arise on specific policy issues. The book also presents empirical tests of most of the fundamental predictions for when such alternative models appear, and it presents tests of novel implications of the theory about other aspects of legislative behavior. Some of the latter tests resolve contradictory findings in the relevant, existing literature - such as whether and how electoral marginality affects representation, whether roll call vote extremism affects the re-election of incumbents, and what in fact is the representational behavior of switched seat legislators. All of the empirical tests provide evidence for the theory. Indeed, the full set of empirical tests provides evidence for the causal effects anticipated by the theory and much of the causal process behind those effects"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject United States. Congress SUBJECT United States. Congress fast USA Congress gnd National Radical Party Serbien gnd Subject Representative government and representation -- United States Elections -- United States. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Legislative Branch. Elections Representative government and representation Repräsentation United States Form Electronic book Author Jordan, Soren, author Hurley, Patricia, author ISBN 9781316321065 1316321061 9781316256626 1316256626 9781107516069 1107516064

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