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
