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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Crisp, Brian F
• Escobar-Lemmon, Maria C
• Jones, Bradford S
• Jones, Mark P
• Taylor-Robinson, Michelle M

Titel

Vote-Seeking Incentive and Legislative Representation in Six Presidential Democracies

Ist Teil von

• The Journal of politics, 2004-08, Vol.66 (3), p.823-846

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

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Quelle

EBSCOhost Business Source Ultimate

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Through the use of an original data set of bill initiation activity in six presidential democracies, we advance scholarly understanding of how the institutional incentives faced by legislative candidates influence representation. We extend & adapt theory, derived primarily from the experience of the US Congress, demonstrating its viability, once assumed constants from the US case are explicitly modeled, in quite distinct institutional contexts. In particular, we find the focus of individual legislators on national vs parochial concerns responds to the incentives provided by the candidate selection process, general election rules, legislator career patterns, & interbranch relations. 3 Tables, 1 Figure, 46 References. Adapted from the source document.