Issue Politics in Congress

Informationen zum Autor Tracy Sulkin is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She received her PhD from the University of Washington in 2002. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, Political Analysis, American Politics Research, and Political Psychology. This book is based on her dissertation, which won APSA's Schattschneider Award in 2003. Klappentext 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. In an effort to shore up their weaknesses before the next election! winning legislators take up the issues prioritized by these challengers in their campaigns and incorporate them into their agendas! introducing! cosponsoring! and speaking on the floor about legislation dealing with these themes. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Electoral challenges and legislative responsiveness; 2. A theory of issue uptake; 3. The nature of campaign and legislative agendas; 4. Assessing uptake; 5. Who responds?: explaining individual variation in uptake; 6. Patterns of responsiveness in congress; 7. The electoral impacts of uptake; 8. Uptake and public policy; 9. Elections, governance, and representation.

Product details

• Authors: Tracy Sulkin, Tracy (University of Illinois Sulkin, Sulkin Tracy
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.10.2005
• EAN: 9780521855211
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85521-1
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Affairs & Administration, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, The Americas, Central / national / federal government, Central government