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Does Winning Matter In Congress Connecting Roll Call Success And Electoral Performance In The Us House Of Representatives
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Book Synopsis Does Winning Matter in Congress? Connecting Roll Call Success and Electoral Performance in the U.S. House of Representatives by : Gregory Robinson
Download or read book Does Winning Matter in Congress? Connecting Roll Call Success and Electoral Performance in the U.S. House of Representatives written by Gregory Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper offers a clarification of positive theories of roll call voting in the form of a Mayhewian apologia, drawing on Mayhew's classic formulation of the electoral connection with a particular focus on its significance for our understanding of position taking, generally, and roll call voting in particular. The contention is that, as a subfield, the way we have tended to think about roll call voting is largely inconsistent with Mayhew's conception of position taking. At the same time, the paper identifies a largely ignored empirical regularity -- that, all else equal, winning more often on roll calls makes incumbents less likely to win reelection.
Book Synopsis Success in Congress by : Robert Eugene Oshel
Download or read book Success in Congress written by Robert Eugene Oshel and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ideology and Congress by : Howard Rosenthal
Download or read book Ideology and Congress written by Howard Rosenthal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ideology and Congress, authors Poole and Rosenthal have analyzed over 13 million individual roll call votes spanning the two centuries since Congress began recording votes in 1789. By tracing the voting patterns of Congress throughout the country's history, the authors find that, despite a wide array of issues facing legislators, over 81 percent of their voting decisions can be attributed to a consistent ideological position ranging from ultraconservatism to ultraliberalism. In their classic 1997 volume, Congress: A Political Economic History of Roll Call Voting, roll call voting became the framework for a novel interpretation of important episodes in American political and economic history. Congress demonstrated that roll call voting has a very simple structure and that, for most of American history, roll call voting patterns have maintained a core stability based on two great issues: the extent of government regulation of, and intervention in, the economy; and race. In this new, paperback volume, the authors include nineteen years of additional data, bringing in the period from 1986 through 2004.
Book Synopsis Fighting for the Speakership by : Jeffery A. Jenkins
Download or read book Fighting for the Speakership written by Jeffery A. Jenkins and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Speaker of the House of Representatives is the most powerful partisan figure in the contemporary U.S. Congress. How this came to be, and how the majority party in the House has made control of the speakership a routine matter, is far from straightforward. Fighting for the Speakership provides a comprehensive history of how Speakers have been elected in the U.S. House since 1789, arguing that the organizational politics of these elections were critical to the construction of mass political parties in America and laid the groundwork for the role they play in setting the agenda of Congress today. Jeffery Jenkins and Charles Stewart show how the speakership began as a relatively weak office, and how votes for Speaker prior to the Civil War often favored regional interests over party loyalty. While struggle, contention, and deadlock over House organization were common in the antebellum era, such instability vanished with the outbreak of war, as the majority party became an "organizational cartel" capable of controlling with certainty the selection of the Speaker and other key House officers. This organizational cartel has survived Gilded Age partisan strife, Progressive Era challenge, and conservative coalition politics to guide speakership elections through the present day. Fighting for the Speakership reveals how struggles over House organization prior to the Civil War were among the most consequential turning points in American political history.
Download or read book Congress written by Keith T. Poole and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using supercomputers, the authors have analyzed 16 million individual roll call votes since the two Houses of Congress began recording votes in 1789. By tracing the voting patterns of Congress throughout the country's history, Poole and Rosenthal find that, despite a wide array of issues facing legislators, over 80% of a legislator's voting decisions can be attributed to a consistent ideological position ranging from ultraconservatism to ultraliberalism.
Book Synopsis Congressman, Constituents, and Contributors by : James B. Kau
Download or read book Congressman, Constituents, and Contributors written by James B. Kau and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1982 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a sense, this book might seem like a strange undertaking for two economists. The material seems to be much closer to political science than to economics; our topic is the determinants of congressional voting. Legislatures and roll call voting are traditionally in the domain of political science. This introduction is intended to explain why we have found this book worth writing. Today the economy functions in a regulated framework. Whether or not there ever was a "golden age" of laissez faire capitalism is an issue for historians; such an age does not now exist. One implication of the high degree of politicization of the modern economy is that one cannot any longer study economics divorced from politics. The rise to prominence of the field of public choice is one strong piece of evidence about what many economists see as the significant influence of the political sector over what would seem to be purely economic variables. A more homey example may also be used to il lustrate the phenomenon of increased politicization of the economy. All economists have had the experience of lecturing on the unemployment creating effects of a minimum wage or on the shortage-creating implications of price controls, only to have a student ask: "But if that is so, why do we have those laws?" One way of viewing this book is as an attempt to answer that question.
Book Synopsis The Power of the People by : Sean M. Theriault
Download or read book The Power of the People written by Sean M. Theriault and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Electoral Consequences of Position Taking in Congress by : Jamie L. Carson
Download or read book The Electoral Consequences of Position Taking in Congress written by Jamie L. Carson and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Congress written by David R. Mayhew and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-10 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Any short list of major analyses of Congress must of necessity include David Mayhew’s Congress: The Electoral Connection." —Fred Greenstein In this second edition to a book that has achieved canonical status, David R. Mayhew argues that the principal motivation of legislators is reelection and that the pursuit of this goal affects the way they behave and the way that they make public policy. In a new foreword for this edition, R. Douglas Arnold discusses why the book revolutionized the study of Congress and how it has stood the test of time.
Book Synopsis Choosing the Leader by : Matthew N. Green
Download or read book Choosing the Leader written by Matthew N. Green and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive study in more than forty years to explain congressional leadership selectionHow are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first major study since Robert Peabody’s classic Leadership in Congress, political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have sought leadership positions from the 1960s to the present—including whip tallies, public and private vote commitments, interviews, and media accounts—to provide new insights into how the selection process truly works.Elections for congressional party leaders are conventionally seen as a function of either legislators’ ideological preferences or factors too idiosyncratic to permit systematic analysis. Analyzing six decades’ worth of information, Harris and Green find evidence for a new comprehensive model of vote choice in House leadership elections that incorporates both legislators’ goals and their connections with leadership candidates. This study will stand for years to come as the definitive treatment of a crucial aspect of American politics.
Book Synopsis Pressures, Priorities, and Legislative Behavior by : Suzanne M. Gold
Download or read book Pressures, Priorities, and Legislative Behavior written by Suzanne M. Gold and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Constituencies and Roll Call Voting by : Jack R. Van Der Slik
Download or read book Constituencies and Roll Call Voting written by Jack R. Van Der Slik and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Representatives and Roll Calls by : Cleo H. Cherryholmes
Download or read book Representatives and Roll Calls written by Cleo H. Cherryholmes and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Impact of Membership Change on Roll Call Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives by : Morse Frederick Kalt
Download or read book The Impact of Membership Change on Roll Call Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives written by Morse Frederick Kalt and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Elections to Open Seats in the U.S. House by : Ronald Keith Gaddie
Download or read book Elections to Open Seats in the U.S. House written by Ronald Keith Gaddie and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Americans, Congress, and Democratic Responsiveness by : David R Jones
Download or read book Americans, Congress, and Democratic Responsiveness written by David R Jones and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jones and McDermott restore meaning to democratic responsibility by finding that public evaluations affect Congress. In contrast to the popular depiction of the representatives controlling the represented rampant in the political science literature, Jones and McDermott show that the people are in control, determining not only the direction of policy in Congress, but also who stays, who retires, and who faces difficult reelection efforts. This book makes an important correction to our understanding of how Congress operates." ---Sean M. Theriault, University of Texas at Austin Voters may not know the details of specific policies, but they have a general sense of how well Congress serves their own interests; and astute politicians pay attention to public approval ratings. When the majority party is unpopular, as during the 2008 election, both voters and politicians take a hand in reconfiguring the House and the Senate. Voters throw hard-line party members out of office while candidates who continue to run under the party banner distance themselves from party ideology. In this way, public approval directly affects policy shifts as well as turnovers at election time. Contrary to the common view of Congress as an insulated institution, Jones and McDermott argue that Congress is indeed responsive to the people of the United States. David R. Jones is Professor of Political Science at Baruch College, City University of New York. Monika L. McDermott is Associate Professor of Political Science at Fordham University.
Book Synopsis Campaign Mode by : Michael John Burton
Download or read book Campaign Mode written by Michael John Burton and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2002-09-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pressures of contemporary electioneering force political professionals into 'campaign mode'—a state of mind that merges a visceral drive to win elections with a deep-seated habit of strategic thinking. Wise political professionals know the basic rules of electoral strategy and how to read the political terrain. Campaign Mode examines the strategic histories of five successful congressional candidates—Ohio's Ted Strickland, Georgia's Bob Barr, California's Loretta Sanchez, Tennessee's Harold Ford, Jr., and Pennsylvania's Rick Santorum. The authors—both of whom have advised major political figures—combine original interviews, survey data, historical investigation, and first-hand observation of the candidates to reveal the inner workings of electoral politics. They demonstrate that campaigns do matter and show readers how to think like political professionals.
