Kim Quaile Hill, Soren Jordan, Patricia A. Hurley

Representation in Congress

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Representation in Congress presents a theory of representation in the US Congress that is also applicable to many other legislatures.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 545g
• ISBN-13: 9781107107816
• ISBN-10: 1107107814
• Artikelnr.: 42140340

Autorenporträt

Kim Hill is the Cullen-McFadden Professor of Political Science and Presidential Professor of Teaching Excellence at Texas A & M University. He is the author, co-author, and editor of several political science textbooks and of the following books of original research: Toward a New Strategy of Development (1979), The Criminal's Image of the City (1979), Democracies in Crisis: Public Policy Responses to the Great Depression (1988) and Democracy in the Fifty States (1994). Professor Hill has also served as editor of the American Journal of Political Science and as the President of the Southern Political Science Association. He has been on the editorial boards of a number of professional journals, and he has served in a variety of leadership roles in national and regional political science professional associations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The scientific study of constituency representation; 2. The party
polarization and issue complexity theory of dyadic representation; 3. The
research design and data for the principal verification tests for the party
polarization and issue complexity theory; 4. Verification tests for the
original predictions about patterns of representational linkage; 5. Novel
implications of the theory about elections and representation; 6. Electoral
marginality and constituency representation; 7. Conclusions, implications,
and future research.