The Personal Vote : : Constituency Service and Electoral Independence /

The Personal Vote : : Constituency Service and Electoral Independence / / Bruce Cain, Morris Fiorina, John Ferejohn.

Modern legislators are increasingly motivated to serve their constituents in personal ways. Representatives act like ultimate ombudsmen: they keep in close touch with their constituents and try to cultivate a relationship with them based on service and accessibility. The Personal Vote describes the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
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Cain, Bruce,
Ferejohn, John,
Fiorina, Morris,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2013]
©1987
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Reprint 2014
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (268 p.) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. CONSTITUENCY SERVICE
  • 1. Member Visibility and Member Images
  • 2. The Nature of Constituency Service
  • 3. Incentives for Serving the Constituency
  • 4. Temporal Change in Constituency Service
  • Part II. CONSTITUENT RESPONSE
  • 5. Unraveling a Paradox
  • 6. Member Behavior and Constituent Response
  • 7.1 The Personal Vote
  • Part III. THE LARGER IMPLICATIONS
  • 8. Particular Interests and General Benefits
  • 9. Implications for Political Institutions
  • APPENDIX A. Coding Categories Equated in Comparisons of Open-ended Responses, 1958 and 1978
  • APPENDIX Β. Problems of Comparability in Open-ended Questions about the Congressional Candidates, 1958 and 1978
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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