Electoral incentives in Congress / Jamie L. Carson and Joel Sievert.

"David Mayhew's (1974) thesis regarding the "electoral connection" and its impact on legislative behavior has become the theoretical foundation for much of the existing research on the modern U.S. Congress. In its most basic form, Mayhew's theory contends that once in office, legislators pursue what...

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Uniform Title:Legislative politics & policy making.
Main Authors: Carson, Jamie L. (Author)
Sievert, Joel (Author)
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2018.
Series:Legislative politics & policy making.
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Physical Description:xiii, 199 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book

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