Legislative Style

William Bernhard, Tracy Sulkin (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2018
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-51028-6 (ISBN)

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Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one's district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage with the media to cultivate a national reputation? William Bernhard and Tracy Sulkin argue that these decisions and others define a "legislative style" that aligns with a legislator's ambitions, experiences, and personal inclinations, as well as any significant electoral and institutional constraints. Bernhard and Sulkin have developed a systematic approach for looking at legislative style through a variety of criteria, including the number of the bills passed, number of speeches given, amount of money raised, and the percentage of time a legislator voted in line with his or her party. Applying this to ten congresses, representing twenty years of congressional data, from 1989 to 2009, they reveal that legislators' activity falls within five predictable styles.
These styles remain relatively consistent throughout legislators' time in office, though a legislator's style can change as career goals evolve, as well as with changes to individual or larger political interests, as in redistricting or a majority shift. Offering insight into a number of enduring questions in legislative politics, Legislative Style is a rich and nuanced account of legislators' activity on Capitol Hill.

William Bernhard is professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the coauthor of Pricing Politics. Tracy Sulkin is professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author, most recently, of The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Reihe/Serie	Chicago Studies in American Politics
Sprache	englisch
Maße	15 x 23 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
ISBN-10	0-226-51028-X / 022651028X
ISBN-13	978-0-226-51028-6 / 9780226510286
Zustand	Neuware