Tracy Sulkin

The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Sulkin shows that legislators' campaigns have a lasting legacy in the content of their behavior in office.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780521514491
• ISBN-10: 0521514495
• Artikelnr.: 32466542

Autorenporträt

Tracy Sulkin is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of Issue Politics in Congress, which won the American Political Science Association's Fenno Prize for the best book in legislative studies. Her work has appeared in leading journals such as the American Political Science Review, the Journal of Politics and Legislative Studies Quarterly.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Promises to keep?
2. Campaigns as signals
3. Campaign appeals and legislative activity
4. Mechanisms underlying promise-keeping
5. Promise-making and promise-keeping on defense and environmental issues
6. The who, when, and where of follow-through
7. The electoral implications of promise-keeping
8. Promises and policymaking
9. Representation, responsiveness, and the electoral connection.