Representation and Institutional Design

Informationen zum Autor By Rebekah L. Herrick Klappentext Representation and Institutional Design examines how variation in the structures and processes of state legislatures affect how legislators represent their constituents. It examines whether electoral laws, term limits, professionalism, and district size and magnitude affect legislators' electoral vulnerability, ambition, and role orientations, as well as their actions involving symbolic, service and policy representation. This book reveals that legislative staff increases legislators' closeness to their constituents, legislative resources tend to increase symbolic and service representation but do little to help policy representation, and term limits tend to weaken relationships between legislators and constituents. These issues address what has been an enduring question for most nations: how to best represent their citizens and their needs. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1 Preface 2 Chapter 1: Institutions and Representation 3 Chapter 2: Institutional Effects on the Incumbency Advantage 4 Chapter 3: Institutional Design and Ambition 5 Chapter 4: Institutional Design and Role Orientation 6 Chapter 6: Institutional Designs Effect on Legislators Information and Perceptual Accuracy 7 Chapter 7: Institutional Design Substantive Representation 8 Chapter 8: Conclusion 9 Appendix A: State Legislators and Their Districts 10 Appendix B: Descriptive Statistics of Variables 11 References

Product details

• Authors: Rebekah Herrick, Rebekah L. Herrick
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2011
• EAN: 9780739150672
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-5067-2
• No. of pages: 160
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 16 mm
• Series: Print on Demand
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government, Central government