03201nam a2200445 a 4500 EBC691830 MiAaPQ 20250821113726.0 m o d | cr cn||||||||| 100918s2011 enka sb 001 0 eng d 2010040153 9780521514491 (hardback) 9780521730488 (paperback) 9781139079457 (electronic bk.) (MiAaPQ)EBC691830 (Au-PeEL)EBL691830 (CaPaEBR)ebr10470696 (CaONFJC)MIL311080 (OCoLC)726734743 MiAaPQ MiAaPQ MiAaPQ n-us--- JK1118 .S85 2011 328.73 22 Sulkin, Tracy. 331727 The legislative legacy of congressional campaigns [electronic resource] / Tracy Sulkin. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. x, 221 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. "Do members of Congress follow through on the appeals they make in campaigns? The answer to this question lies at the heart of assessments of democratic legitimacy. This study demonstrates that, contrary to the conventional wisdom that candidates appeals are just cheap talk, campaigns actually have a lasting legacy in the content of representatives and senators behavior in office. Legislators face clear incentives to offer sincere claims in their campaigns, so their appeals often serve as good signals about the issues they will pursue in Congress. Levels of promise-keeping vary in a systematic fashion across legislators, across types of activity, across time, and across chamber. Moreover, legislators, responsiveness to their appeals shapes their future electoral fortunes and career choices, and their activity on their campaign themes leaves a tangible trace in public policy outputs. Understanding the dynamics of promise-keeping thus has important implications for our evaluations of the quality of campaigns and the strength of representation in the United States"-- Provided by publisher. Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. Legislators Professional relationships United States. 331728 Political campaigns United States. 331729 Political planning United States. 331730 Representative government and representation United States. 331731 Electronic books. 35142 ProQuest (Firm) 331732 https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=691830 Click to View 271266 271266