| Issue Politics in Congress Contributor(s): Sulkin, Tracy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521671329 ISBN-13: 9780521671323 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $29.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2005 Annotation: This book explores how legislators respond to their electoral challengers' critiques. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Conservatism & Liberalism - Political Science | American Government - Legislative Branch |
| Dewey: 328.73 |
| LCCN: 2005008116 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" (0.70 lbs) 222 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Do representatives and senators respond to the critiques raised by their challengers? This study, exploring how legislators' experiences as candidates shape their subsequent behavior as policymakers, demonstrates that winning legislators regularly take up their challengers' priority issues from the last campaign and act on them. This attentiveness to their challengers' issues reflects a widespread and systematic yet largely unrecognized mode of responsiveness in the U.S. Congress. Tracy Sulkin reveals the important benefits for these legislators as well as the health and legitimacy of the representative process. |
Contributor Bio(s): Sulkin, Tracy: - 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. |
