We examine the influence of the incumbency advantage on two features of the electoral system in the U.S. House elections: electoral responsiveness and partisan bias. Using a district-level seats-votes model of House elections, we are able to distinguish systematic changes from unique, election-specific variations.
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"Systemic Consequences of Incumbency Advantage in. Congressional Elections." American Journal of Political Science. Kostroski, Warren. 1973. ...
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SYSTEMIC CONSEQUENCES OF INCUMBENCY ADVANTAGE 121. Uncontested Seats. Models of congressional elections usually treat uncontested district elec- ...
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As Figure 4 shows, this pattern has generally held in Congressional elections since the 1960s, when, as all scholars agree, incumbency advantage became substantial. We would like to interpret di erence between the two slopes in (3) not as an e ect of incumbency but as a consequence of variation in its e ects.
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King, Gary and Andrew Gelman. 1991. Systemic Consequences of Incumbency Advantage in U. S. House Elections. American Journal of Political Science 35(1): 110-38. ... 1991. "Systemic Consequences of Incumbency Advantage in U. S. House Elections." American Journal of Political Science 35(1): 110-38.; Home/Search Document Not...
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The Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Elections: An Analysis of State and Federal O±ces, 1942-20001; Stephen Ansolabehere; Department of Political Science, MIT; James M. Snyder, Jr. Departments of Political Science and Economics;
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In this case the in-cumbency advantage is not due to any direct benefit of incumbency, but is rather a consequence of the different distribution of quality for incumbents. Incumbency may also confer a direct electoral advantage;
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Congressional stagnation in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Congressional stagnation is an American political theory that attempts to explain the high rate of incumbency re-election to the United States House of Representatives. In recent years this rate has ...
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