| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Part Part I A Conventional Wisdom and Its Importance -- chapter 1 The Fortunes of Incumbents and Interpreting Political Change -- chapter 2 Vanishing Marginals, a Research Agenda, and Political Responsiveness -- part Part II The Data and Doubts -- chapter 3 The Basics: Percentages, Averages, and Careers -- chapter 4 The Presidential- House Election Connection Issue -- chapter 5 The Gelman- King Estimation (and the Role of Open Seats) -- part Part III The Role and Emergence of a Paradigm -- chapter 6 The Puzzle and an Interpretative Framework: Kuhn -- chapter 7 Embracing One Paradigm and Discarding Another -- chapter 8 A Consensus and Normal Science -- chapter 9 Embracing and Sustaining a Paradigm: Why? -- part Part IV An Alternative -- chapter 10 An Alternative Framework and Analysis -- chapter 11 Paradigms and Understanding American Politics |
| Summary |
"The increase in the "incumbency effect" has long dominated as a research focus and as a framework for interpreting congressional elections. This important new book challenges the empirical claim that incumbents are doing better and the research paradigm that accompanied the claim. It also offers an alternative interpretation of House elections since the 1960s. In a style that is provocative yet fair, learned, and transparent, Jeffrey Stonecash makes a two-pronged argument: frameworks and methodologies suffer when they stop being critically considered, and patterns of House elections over the long term actually reflect party change and realignment. A must-read for scholars and students of congressional elections."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [204]-232) and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Congress. House -- Elections
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Congress. House fast |
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United States. Congress fast |
| Subject |
Incumbency (Public officers) -- United States
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Elections -- United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General.
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Incumbency (Public officers)
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Elections
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Political parties
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Political science -- Research -- Methodology
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Politics and government
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020691376 |
| ISBN |
9781351059220 |
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135105922X |
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9781351059237 |
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1351059238 |
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9781351059206 |
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1351059203 |
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9781351059213 |
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1351059211 |
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