I. Scope of incumbency advantage. ... E. Election of 1994 may seem to have reduced this advantage, but they were more a statement about the Democratic Party than against incumbency per se: not a single incumbent Republican congressman or senator ... III. A special incumbency advantage for House members: gerrymandering.
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In political science incumbency advantage is the relative advantage an incumbent office holder has over his or her challengers in seeking reelection. In the United States, candidate-centered voting ...
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Proves that all previous measures of incumbency advantage in the congressional elections literature were biased or inconsistent, and develops an unbiased estimator based on a simple linear regression model. Gelman, Andrew and Gary King.
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Expressive Politics:; How Congressional Challengers Confront the Incumbency Advantage ... The incumbency advantage has three major components: legislative districts are rarely drawn to facilitate true two-party competition; members of congress have significantly greater resources, both financial and informational,
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The Key (and Tough) Question: Why has the probability of incumbent reelection remained essentially unchanged even though the average share of the vote won ... What is the "incumbency advantage?" Can you think of any ways that you might measure it? Why do incumbents win a higher share of the vote than non-incumbents?
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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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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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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. ... Document Not in Databas ... Context Related Articles ; This paper is cited by the following papers: Bias and Responsiveness in Multiparty and...
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Experimental Studies of Candidate Strategy ... The Ideology of Racism in the Slave Sout ... This project is joint work with Scott de Marchi and Michael Ensley. The research is being conducted using funding from the National Science Foundation (SBR-98-10380).
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