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Author : Vincent Lamont Hutchings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Congressional Representation written by Vincent Lamont Hutchings and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hahrie Han
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Issue Publics and Congressional Representation written by Hahrie Han and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Calvin C. Jillson
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804722933
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Congressional Dynamics written by Calvin C. Jillson and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the origins, evolution, and demise of the Continental Congress, reinterpreting its successes and failures from the perspective of the ?new institutionalism.” In the process, the book lays open a fascinating historical laboratory for exploring contemporary questions about the nature of political institutions, the strategic incentives those institutions present to those involved, and the outcomes that result.
Author : Emily K. Lynch
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Time is on Their Side? written by Emily K. Lynch and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The divisive political climate in Congress in recent decades has been the subject of much scholarship in political science and commentary in the political media. Given the polarized nature of Congress, it is important to advance our understanding of both variation in trends in congressional party voting and constituents' reactions to party voting over the course of a congressional member's (MC's) career. The goal of this dissertation is to explore the dynamic relationship between representatives and their constituents through three investigations of party voting. My specific focus is on temporal dynamics, that is, the role that various conceptualizations of "time" play in shaping congressional party voting and constituents, reactions to loyal party voting. The dissertation consists of three empirical investigations. The first explores the question, "legislators significantly alter their party voting habits throughout their careers" Here, I consider time as the MC's tenure in office, and so I model how party voting changes over the course of legislative careers. A second research question emerges: "How does faithful party voting influence constituent support over the span of a legislator's career?" While the first section of my research analyzes congressional voting behavior, the second part focuses on constituents and how they are influenced by MC's party voting. In order to address the second research question, I consider time in two ways. The first is by exploring the extent to which seniority - whether a MC is newly elected or if he or she has spent several terms in office- has an impact on constituents' reactions to party voting information. The second is by observing the formation of impressions of representatives in real time. The dissertation research methodology consists of a triangulation of experimental, survey, and congressional data analyses. First, congressional party voting data over a period of twenty-eight years are analyzed using fixed-effects regression analyses in Study 1. Second, survey data from the American National Election Studies are merged with congressional data to assess the influence of party voting and congressional seniority on constituents' opinions in Study 2. Finally, impression formation is carefully monitored in two longitudinal experiments in Study 3. I find that seniority influences party voting for all House members, with MCs engaging in more party voting as their tenure in the House lengthens. The results of the impact of congressional party voting on constituent evaluations are mixed. The survey data show that party voting has an overall negative effect on evaluations of MCs, but that effect is stronger for more senior MCs and weaker for junior MCs. However, some of the experimental results indicate that in-partisans react more positively to loyal party voting than moderate party voting. A consistent finding in the dissertation is that out-partisans dislike loyal party voting more than in-partisans favor it. The experimental results yield mixed support for the hypothesis that party voting information will have a greater impact on evaluations when that information is received at the beginning of the impression formation process. The dissertation has implications for our understanding of congressional careers and how constituent impressions of MCs are formed. More broadly, the dissertation enriches our general understanding of representation and the representative-constituent relationship.
Author : Gail Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131548711X
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Conflict Between Bureaucrats and Legislators written by Gail Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1993. Carefully using four case studies, Johnson explores relationships between federal agencies and the legislators most responsible for their oversight. This text adds to our understanding of what are often called subgovernments.
Author : Carlos Andres Algara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781392639054
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Collective Accountability in Congressional Elections Conditions of Accountability & Implications for Legislative Incentives written by Carlos Andres Algara and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the dynamics of congressional representation during the emergence of relatively responsible party government in the United States. Recent developments in elite-level polarization and legislative unity has led scholars to remark that the United States Congress features more responsible and stronger parties. In turn, this clarifies the degree of legislative responsibility surrounding the successful passage of congressional policies and the ideological nature of the congressional party agenda. Building on recent work positing the emergence of a party system closer to the responsible party government}ideal, this dissertation explores the dynamics by which congressional representation in the United States becomes more partisan-centered during this emerging era of responsible party government. The first chapter of the dissertation examines the changing nature of U.S. Senate election outcomes as the congressional parties become more polarized. Using a novel dataset of aggregate Senate elections during the entire direct-election era (1914-2016), I find strong evidence that, during heightened periods of polarization, the salience of partisanship in determining Senate election outcomes increases. The key exception of this illustration are Senators representing politically hostile states (i.e., Democratic Senators representing Republican leaning states), which are capable of adapting their personal brands in light of greater ideological polarization between the parties. In the second chapter, I turn my attention to the question of whether citizens use their ideological preferences and the ideological agendas of both congressional parties to evaluate the collective job performance of the U.S. Congress. Given the rise of more polarized and unified congressional parties, I find evidence for a theory suggesting that evaluations of congressional job performance are a function of both partisan identity and the ideological proximity between citizen preferences and the ideological locations of both congressional parties. Lastly, the third chapter builds on the finding that citizen approval of Congress is premised on the collective ideological representation provided by the majority party by finding support for a theory of collective accountability in congressional elections. This theory of collective accountability argues that citizen assessments of congressional job performance motivates both their propensity to participate in electoral accountability and, ultimately, their district-level electoral choice.
Author : E. Scott Adler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691121598
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (215 download)
Download or read book The Macropolitics of Congress written by E. Scott Adler and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-02-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do public laws, treaties, Senate confirmations, and other legislative achievements help us to gain insight into how our governmental system performs? This well-argued book edited by Scott Adler and John Lapinski is the first to assess our political institutions by looking at what the authors refer to as legislative accomplishment. The book moves beyond current research on Congress that focuses primarily on rules, internal structure, and the microbehavior of individual lawmakers, to look at the mechanisms that govern how policy is enacted and implemented in the United States. It includes essays on topics ranging from those dealing with the microfoundations of congressional output, to large N empirical analyses that assess current theories of lawmaking, to policy-centered case studies. All of the chapters take a Congress-centered perspective on macropolicy while still appreciating the importance of other branches of government in explaining policy accomplishment. The Macropolitics of Congress shines light on promising pathways for the exploration of such key issues as the nature of political representation. It will make a significant contribution to the study of Congress and, more generally, to our understanding of American politics. Contributors include E. Scott Adler, David Brady, Charles M. Cameron, Brandice Canes-Wrone, Robert S. Erikson, Grace R. Freedman, Valerie Heitshusen, John D. Huber, Ira Katznelson, Keith Krehbiel, John S. Lapinski, David Leblang, Michael B. MacKuen, David R. Mayhew, Nolan McCarty, Charles R. Shipan, James A. Stimson, and Garry Young.
Author : Kelly D. Patterson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Contemplating the People's Branch written by Kelly D. Patterson and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A supplemental reader for undergraduate courses on Congress and the Presidency. This very accessible book tackles some of the most difficult issues students face when studying Congress and state legislatures. It examines theoretical arguments on the nature of representation, the election process, and leadership battles, with a sharp focus on state legislative process and a critical examination of the election process. The book presents topics without overwhelming students with high-end statistical analysis. Articles taken from journals, press, and trade books provide access to scholarship and commentary that will allow students to make informed judgements about the performance of the U.S. Congress and the various state legislatures.
Author : Timothy M. LaPira
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022670257X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book Congress Overwhelmed written by Timothy M. LaPira and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress today is falling short. Fewer bills, worse oversight, and more dysfunction. But why? In a new volume of essays, the contributors investigate an underappreciated reason Congress is struggling: it doesn’t have the internal capacity to do what our constitutional system requires of it. Leading scholars chronicle the institutional decline of Congress and the decades-long neglect of its own internal investments in the knowledge and expertise necessary to perform as a first-rate legislature. Today’s legislators and congressional committees have fewer—and less expert and experienced—staff than the executive branch or K Street. This leaves them at the mercy of lobbyists and the administrative bureaucracy. The essays in Congress Overwhelmed assess Congress’s declining capacity and explore ways to upgrade it. Some provide broad historical scope. Others evaluate the current decay and investigate how Congress manages despite the obstacles. Collectively, they undertake the most comprehensive, sophisticated appraisal of congressional capacity to date, and they offer a new analytical frame for thinking about—and improving—our underperforming first branch of government.
Author : Frances E. Lee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022640918X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Insecure Majorities written by Frances E. Lee and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-08-23 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] tour de force. Building upon her argument in Beyond Ideology, she adds an important wrinkle into the current divide between the parties in Congress.” —Perspectives on Politics As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing ideological gulf between the parties, but this explanation misses another fundamental factor influencing the dynamic. In contrast to politics through most of the twentieth century, the contemporary Democratic and Republican parties compete for control of Congress at relative parity, and this has dramatically changed the parties’ incentives and strategies in ways that have driven the contentious partisanship characteristic of contemporary American politics. With Insecure Majorities, Frances E. Lee offers a controversial new perspective on the rise of congressional party conflict, showing how the shift in competitive circumstances has had a profound impact on how Democrats and Republicans interact. Beginning in the 1980s, most elections since have offered the prospect of a change of party control. Lee shows, through an impressive range of interviews and analysis, how competition for control of the government drives members of both parties to participate in actions that promote their own party’s image and undercut that of the opposition, including the perpetual hunt for issues that can score political points by putting the opposing party on the wrong side of public opinion. More often than not, this strategy stands in the way of productive bipartisan cooperation—and it is also unlikely to change as long as control of the government remains within reach for both parties.
Author : Scott R. Meinke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book The Dynamics of Voting in the House of Representatives written by Scott R. Meinke and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the study of congressional decision making, my findings suggest that prior scholarship has overstated the importance of stability in congressional voting. On a much broader level, by challenging the dominant view of position stability and elaborating on the few studies that reveal position change, the research demonstrates that members do not function simply as placeholders for a fixed viewpoint in the House for their entire careers. Congressional voting has a dynamic component, and this fact ultimately implies that the House can move in new policy directions even without mass shifts in composition through electoral mechanisms.
Author : Tracy Sulkin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781139069151
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (691 download)
Download or read book The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns written by Tracy Sulkin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Do members of Congress follow through on the appeals they make in campaigns? The answer to this question lies at the heart of assessments of democratic legitimacy. This study demonstrates that, contrary to the conventional wisdom that candidates appeals are just cheap talk, campaigns actually have a lasting legacy in the content of representatives and senators behavior in office. Legislators face clear incentives to offer sincere claims in their campaigns, so their appeals often serve as good signals about the issues they will pursue in Congress. Levels of promise-keeping vary in a systematic fashion across legislators, across types of activity, across time, and across chamber. Moreover, legislators, responsiveness to their appeals shapes their future electoral fortunes and career choices, and their activity on their campaign themes leaves a tangible trace in public policy outputs. Understanding the dynamics of promise-keeping thus has important implications for our evaluations of the quality of campaigns and the strength of representation in the United States"--
Author : Mark D. Brewer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521882303
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Dynamics of American Political Parties written by Mark D. Brewer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Dynamics of American Political Parties, Mark D. Brewer and Jeffrey M. Stonecash examine the process of gradual change that inexorably shapes and reshapes American politics. Parties and the politicians that comprise them seek control of government in order to implement their visions of proper public policy. To gain control parties need to win elections, and winning elections requires assembling an electoral coalition that is larger than that crafted by the opposition. Parties are always looking for opportunities to build such winning coalitions, and opportunities are always there, but they are rarely, if ever, without risk. Uncertainty rules and intra-party conflict rages as different factions and groups within the parties debate the proper course(s) of action and battle it out for control of the party. Parties can never be sure how their strategic maneuvers will play out, and, even when it appears that a certain strategy has been successful, party leaders are unclear about how long apparent success will last. Change unfolds slowly, in fits and starts.
Author : Catherine N. Wineinger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197556573
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Gendering the GOP written by Catherine N. Wineinger and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gendering the GOP, Catherine N. Wineinger argues that to truly understand the evolution of women's congressional representation, it is necessary to move beyond an analysis of legislative behavior and toward an analysis of intraparty gender dynamics. Unlike previous research on women in Congress, Wineinger focuses exclusively on the experiences of Republican congresswomen to uncover some of the gendered implications of congressional polarization.Developing a novel theory of "partisan-gender identity," defined as a categorical identity that sits at the intersection of one's partisan affiliation and gender identity, Gendering the GOP argues that Republican women in Congress are not merely gender-blind partisans. In fact, polarization and party competition have incentivized Republican women to organize around their partisan-gender identity and distinguish themselves from both Democratic women and Republican men. In so doing, Republican congresswomen have increased their visibility as party messengers, while simultaneously upholding a party culture that limits women's presence and power in the institution. Through extensive interviews with women members of Congress and in-depth analyses of House floor speeches, Wineinger details how women have both navigated and shaped existing gender dynamics within the House GOP conference.
Author : Paul S. Herrnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000438090
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Under the Iron Dome written by Paul S. Herrnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-19 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a glimpse into the professional lives of members of Congress and the staff, political consultants, and others who work beneath the Capitol’s iconic dome. It shows some of the historic challenges, daily trials and tribulations, and public and private triumphs and failures that defi ne working life on the Hill. Original chapters by practitioners who have been there off er a fresh understanding of congressional elections, policy making, and party leadership, as well as landmark institutional developments, such as the growing influence of women and minorities in the legislative process. Each author brings a personal knowledge of Congress, providing unique insight into the opaque world of committee assignments, the hustle and bustle of fl oor activity, the cross- examination of committee testimony, and the beehive of activity in a member’s Washington or district offi ce, or committee’s office. Collectively, they provide keen insights into the institutions, procedures, and politics that shape congressional policy making. Additionally, the historic two impeachments of then- President Donald J. Trump are examined to showcase some of the extraordinary politics taking place on Capitol Hill. Aimed at anyone working in Congress or wanting to infl uence public policy, this book is also an excellent classroom supplement for political science courses at every level and a compelling read for citizens who want to understand how Congress works and why it sometimes does not.
Author : Craig Volden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521761522
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)
Download or read book Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress written by Craig Volden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.
Author : R. Douglas Arnold
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300056594
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (565 download)
Download or read book The Logic of Congressional Action written by R. Douglas Arnold and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress regularly enacts laws that benefit particular groups or localities while imposing costs on everyone else. Sometimes, however, Congress breaks free of such parochial concerns and enacts bills that serve the general public, not just special interest groups. In this important and original book, R. Douglas Arnold offers a theory that explains not only why special interests frequently triumph but also why the general public sometimes wins. By showing how legislative leaders build coalitions for both types of programs, he illuminates recent legislative decisions in such areas as economic, tax, and energy policy. Arnold's theory of policy making rests on a reinterpretation of the relationship between legislators' actions and their constituents' policy preferences. Most scholars explore the impact that citizens' existing policy preferences have on legislators' decisions. They ignore citizens who have no opinions because they assume that uninformed citizens cannot possibly affect legislators' choices. Arnold examines the influence of citizens' potential preferences, however, and argues that legislators also respond to these preferences in order to avoid future electoral problems. He shows how legislators estimate the political consequences of their voting decisions, taking into account both the existing preferences of attentive citizens and the potential preferences of inattentive citizens. He then analyzes how coalition leaders manipulate the legislative situation in order to make it attractive for legislators to support a general interest bill.
