Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns

Informationen zum Autor 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 and Legislative Studies Quarterly. Klappentext Sulkin shows that legislators' campaigns have a lasting legacy in the content of their behavior in office. Zusammenfassung This book asks whether winning representatives follow through on the promises they made in their election campaigns. Sulkin shows that these campaigns have a lasting legacy in the content of their behavior in office and have important implications for evaluations of the strength of democratic representation in the United States. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Promises to keep?; 2. Campaigns as signals; 3. Campaign appeals and legislative activity; 4. Mechanisms underlying promise-keeping; 5. Promise-making and promise-keeping on defense and environmental issues; 6. The who, when, and where of follow-through; 7. The electoral implications of promise-keeping; 8. Promises and policymaking; 9. Representation, responsiveness, and the electoral connection.

Product details

• Authors: Tracy Sulkin, Tracy (University of Illinois Sulkin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521514491
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51449-1
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Executive Branch, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, United States of America, USA, Elections & referenda, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Elections and referenda / suffrage