The Constituency Service Basis of the Personal Vote for U.S. Representative and British Members of Parliament
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Description
During the past decade and especially active research area has developed around the study of the advantages of incumbency in U.S. House elections. Erikson (1972), Tufte (1973), and Mayhew (1974b) first called attention to the temporal increase apparent over the course of the 1960s, and numerous succeeding scholars (Burnham, 1975; Cover, 1977; Ferejohn, 1977b; Fiorina, 1977; Hinckley, 1980a; Parker, 1980a) have theorized about the bases and the consequences of the scholarly effort has produced a reasonable understanding of the multifaceted nature of the incumbency advantage in contemporary elections, although the lack of appropriate longitudinal data hinders efforts to determine precisely what and how much has changed over time (Fiorina, 1981a).
Source Publication
Controversies in Voting Behavior
Source Editors/Authors
Richard G. Niemi, Herbert F. Weisberg
Publication Date
1984
Edition
2
Recommended Citation
Cain, Bruce E.; Ferejohn, John A.; and Fiorina, Morris P., "The Constituency Service Basis of the Personal Vote for U.S. Representative and British Members of Parliament" (1984). Faculty Chapters. 507.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/507
