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The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns

By: Tracy Sulkin

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The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns

By: Tracy Sulkin

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. 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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1139498320

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Legislative Style

By: William Bernhard,Tracy Sulkin

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Legislative Style

By: William Bernhard,Tracy Sulkin

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.

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University of Chicago Press

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022651031X

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The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns

By: Tracy Sulkin

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Issue Politics in Congress

By: Tracy Sulkin

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Issue Politics in Congress

By: Tracy Sulkin

Do representatives and senators respond to the critiques raised by their challengers? This study, one of the first to explore how legislators' experiences as candidates shape their subsequent behavior as policy makers, demonstrates that they do. Winning legislators regularly take up their challengers' priority issues from the last campaign and act on them in office, a phenomenon called 'issue uptake'. This attentiveness to their challengers' issues reflects a widespread and systematic yet largely unrecognized mode of responsiveness in the US Congress, but it is one with important benefits for the legislators who undertake it and for the health and legitimacy of the representative process. This book provides fresh insight into questions regarding the electoral connection in legislative behavior, the role of campaigns and elections, and the nature and quality of congressional representation.

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1139448617

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Legislative Style

By: William Bernhard,Tracy Sulkin

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By: William Bernhard,Tracy Sulkin

Legislative style and congressional careers -- Measuring legislative style (with Daniel Sewell) -- The styles -- Explaining freshman styles -- Transitions in style -- The electoral consequences of legislative style -- Styles, lawmaking, and legislative success -- Career advancement and legislative styles -- Legislative styles and evaluations of Congress

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022651028X

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How Women Represent Women

Political Parties, Gender, and Representation in the State Legislatures

By: Tracy L. Osborn

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How Women Represent Women

Political Parties, Gender, and Representation in the State Legislatures

By: Tracy L. Osborn

How Women Represent Women argues that political parties fundamentally structure the ways in which women legislators represent women's interests. Using original election, sponsorship and roll call data across the U.S. state chambers from 1999-2000, Osborn shows how parties shape the policy alternatives women offer.

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Oxford University Press

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0199845352

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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

By: Tracy DiSabato-Aust

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The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

The Essential Guide to Planting and Pruning Techniques, Third Edition

By: Tracy DiSabato-Aust

“This practical guide is lush with clear, step-by-step advice.” —Real Simple Since its original publication twenty years ago, The Well-Tended Perennial Garden has helped home gardeners successfully plan, plant, and tend their gardens. Now Tracy Di-Sabato-Aust’s trusty advice and reassuring tone are back and better than ever in this completely revised new edition. Novice and experienced gardeners alike will benefit from Tracy’s thorough details on the essential practices of perennial care—included deadheading, pinching, and thinning—along with growing information for new species and cultivars, on-trend garden design advice, a monthly planting and maintenance schedule, and details on native plants and gardening for wildlife. The Well-Tended Perennial Garden is a must-have ally in the quest for a beautiful, well-maintained garden.

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Timber Press

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1604697075

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Issue Politics in Congress

By: Tracy Sulkin

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The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns

The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns

Legislative Style

Legislative Style

The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns

The Legislative Legacy of Congressional Campaigns

Issue Politics in Congress

Issue Politics in Congress

Legislative Style

Legislative Style

How Women Represent Women

How Women Represent Women

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

The Well-Tended Perennial Garden

Issue Politics in Congress

Issue Politics in Congress

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