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Reassessing the incumbency effect /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reassessing the incumbency effect // Jeffrey M. Stonecash.
Author:	Stonecash, Jeffrey M.,
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 169 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).
Subject:	Incumbency (Public officers) - United States. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511756184
ISBN:	9780511756184 (ebook)

Reassessing the incumbency effect /
Stonecash, Jeffrey M.,

Reassessing the incumbency effect /Jeffrey M. Stonecash. - 1 online resource (xiv, 169 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).

An increased incumbency effect and American politics -- The consensus about a greater incumbency effect -- The trend in incumbent vote percentages -- Cumulative career changes -- The retirement slump -- An alternative framework : the role of realignment -- A partisan view of incumbent percentages -- The role of realignment -- Conclusions and implications.

Incumbents in the US House of Representatives have increased their vote percentages in recent decades, raising questions about the efficacy of elections in making members responsive. The evidence, however, indicates there has been no improvement in the electoral fortunes of incumbents in the last 50 years. Only Republicans have improved their electoral fortunes as a result of realignment. This valuable book provides a very different interpretation of how incumbents have fared in recent decades, and the interpretation is supported by non-technical data analysis and presentation.

ISBN: 9780511756184 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

802301
Incumbency (Public officers)
--United States.

LC Class. No.: JK1965 / .S76 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 324.973

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