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Reassessing the Incumbency Effect

Reassessing the Incumbency Effect

Paperback

General Political ScienceUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0521733227
ISBN13: 9780521733229
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Sep 22 2008
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Incumbents in the U.S. House of Representatives have presumably increased their vote percentages in recent decades, raising questions about the efficacy of elections in making members responsive. The evidence, however, indicates there has been no improvement in the electoral fortunes of incumbents in the last 50 years. Only Republicans have improved their electoral fortunes as a result of realignment. This valuable book provides a very different interpretation of how incumbents have fared in recent decades, and the interpretation is supported by non-technical data analysis and presentation.

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