Issue politics in Congress /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sulkin, Tracy
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Temas:
United States. > Congress > Elections.
États-Unis. > Congress > Élections.
United States. > Congress.
USA > Congress
Political planning > United States.
Representative government and representation > United States.
Legislators > United States > Attitudes.
Public opinion > United States.
Political leadership > United States.
Political campaigns > United States.
Politique publique > États-Unis.
Gouvernement représentatif > États-Unis.
Parlementaires > États-Unis > Attitudes.
Opinion publique > États-Unis.
Leadership politique > États-Unis.
Campagnes électorales > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Elections.
Legislators > Attitudes.
Political campaigns.
Political leadership.
Political planning.
Public opinion.
Representative government and representation.
Politik
Wahlkampf
Öffentliche Meinung
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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