TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sulkin,Tracy
ED  - ProQuest (Firm)
TI  - The legislative legacy of congressional campaigns
AV  - JK1118 .S85 2011
U1  - 328.73 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Legislators
KW  - Professional relationships
KW  - United States
KW  - Political campaigns
KW  - Political planning
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries
N2  - "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"--
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