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American democracy
American politics
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Average Vote Percentage
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Congress
congressional election paradigm shift
Congressional Elections
Constituency Pressure
District Composition
District Partisanship
Elections
electoral realignment
empirical political science
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House Election Results
House Elections
House Results
Incumbency
Incumbency Advantage
Incumbency Effect
Incumbent Percentages
Incumbents
Initial Percentage
Kuhn's Argument
Kuhn’s Argument
legislative behavior analysis
Normal Science
Normal Vote
Open Seat Contests
Partisan Outcomes
Partisan Vote
Party Identification
party system change
Percentage Points
political methodology
Political parties
Presidential Results
Presidential Vote
Republican Incumbent
Swing Ratio
Thomas Kuhn
Vanishing Marginals
Vote Percentages
voting patterns research
Product details
- ISBN 9781138479876
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jun 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The increase in the "incumbency effect" has long dominated as a research focus and as a framework for interpreting congressional elections. This important new book challenges the empirical claim that incumbents are doing better and the research paradigm that accompanied the claim. It also offers an alternative interpretation of House elections since the 1960s. In a style that is provocative yet fair, learned, and transparent, Jeffrey Stonecash makes a two-pronged argument: frameworks and methodologies suffer when they stop being critically considered, and patterns of House elections over the long term actually reflect party change and realignment. A must-read for scholars and students of congressional elections.
Jeffrey M. Stonecash is Emeritus Maxwell Professor of Political Science at Syracuse University. He is the author or editor of over twenty books on American political parties, polling, and elections.
