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The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns
Tracy Sulkin
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Description for The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns
paperback. Sulkin shows that legislators' campaigns have a lasting legacy in the content of their behavior in office. Num Pages: 232 pages, 19 b/w illus. 19 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPHC; JPHF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 380.
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. 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 ... Read more
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. 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521730488
SKU
V9780521730488
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About Tracy Sulkin
Tracy Sulkin is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Issue Politics in Congress, which won the American Political Science Association's Fenno Prize for the best book in legislative studies. Her work has appeared in leading journals such as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics ... Read more
Reviews for The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns
“In this important new book, Tracy Sulkin asks a relatively simple, yet important question in the context of studies on representation: do members of Congress actually follow through on the appeals they make in campaigns once they are elected? Through a careful analysis of individual campaigns and legislative behavior in both the House and Senate, she concludes that the ... Read more