The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns.

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sulkin, Tracy
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Subjects:	Legislators > Professional relationships > United States. Political campaigns > United States. Political planning > United States. Representative government and representation > United States. Political campaigns Political planning Representative government and representation United States
Online Access:	Click for online access

Table of Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 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 Policy Making; 9 Representation, Responsiveness, and the Electoral Connection; References; Index.

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