Rebekah L. Herrick

Representation and Institutional Design

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Representation and Institutional Design examines how variation in the structures and processes of state legislatures affect how legislators represent their constituents. It examines whether electoral laws, term limits, professionalism, and district size and magnitude affect legislators' electoral vulnerability, ambition, and role orientations, as well as their actions involving symbolic, service and policy representation. This book reveals that legislative staff increases legislators' closeness to their constituents, legislative resources tend to increase symbolic and service representation but do little to help policy representation, and term limits tend to weaken relationships between legislators and constituents. These issues address what has been an enduring question for most nations: how to best represent their citizens and their needs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780739150672
• ISBN-10: 0739150677
• Artikelnr.: 32857211

Autorenporträt

Rebekah L. Herrick is professor of political science at Oklahoma State University.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Preface 2 Chapter 1: Institutions and Representation 3 Chapter 2:
Institutional Effects on the Incumbency Advantage 4 Chapter 3:
Institutional Design and Ambition 5 Chapter 4: Institutional Design and
Role Orientation 6 Chapter 6: Institutional Designs Effect on Legislators
Information and Perceptual Accuracy 7 Chapter 7: Institutional Design
Substantive Representation 8 Chapter 8: Conclusion 9 Appendix A: State
Legislators and Their Districts 10 Appendix B: Descriptive Statistics of
Variables 11 References