Kim Quaile Hill

Representation in Congress (eBook, ePUB)

A Unified Theory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Representation in Congress provides a theory of dyadic policy representation intended to account for when belief sharing, delegate, responsible party, trustee, and 'party elite led' models of representational linkage arise on specific policy issues. The book also presents empirical tests of most of the fundamental predictions for when such alternative models appear, and it presents tests of novel implications of the theory about other aspects of legislative behavior. Some of the latter tests resolve contradictory findings in the relevant, existing literature - such as whether and how electoral marginality affects representation, whether roll call vote extremism affects the re-election of incumbents, and what in fact is the representational behavior of switched seat legislators. All of the empirical tests provide evidence for the theory. Indeed, the full set of empirical tests provides evidence for the causal effects anticipated by the theory and much of the causal process behind those effects.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316290422
• Artikelnr.: 53012189

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.