Legislator-Constituency Relations and the Representative Process

Jewell, Malcolm E.

doi:10.2307/439589

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“…Candidates develop sources of support well beyond the borders of the geographic constituency they hope to serve. As legislators, they perceive their constituency as "broader than the geographic boundary of their district" (Jewell 1983, James G. Gimpel is professor of political science, University of Maryland, 3140 Tydings Hall, College Park, MD 20742 (JGimpel@ gvpt.umd.edu). Frances E. Lee is associate professor of political science, University of Maryland, 3140 Tydings Hall, College Park, MD 20742 (FLee@gvpt.umd.edu).…”

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The Check Is in the Mail: Interdistrict Funding Flows in Congressional Elections

Gimpel

Lee

Pearson‐Merkowitz

2008

American J Political Sci

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This article analyzes the financial ties between congressional candidates and individual donors residing outside those candidates' districts. Congressional campaigns today rely more heavily on nonresidents than in the past, with contests in the typical district drawing more than two-thirds of individual donations from nonresidents. Empirical results reveal that nonresident contributions are primarily partisan and strategic in nature, rather than access-oriented or expressive/identity-based. Funds are efficiently redistributed from a small number of highly educated, wealthy congressional districts to competitive districts anywhere in the country. Big donors direct funds where they can make a difference for party control of seats, even if those investments are hundreds, or even thousands, of miles away.

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The Check Is in the Mail: Interdistrict Funding Flows in Congressional Elections

Gimpel

Lee

Pearson‐Merkowitz

2008

American J Political Sci

134

117

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“…This is an even more attractive perspective if we take into account both citizens' growing sophistication and manifest dissatisfaction with politics in modern democracies. Although the model should not be understood as the only legitimate vision of democratic representation (Eulau & Karps 1977;Jewell 1983;Thomassen 1994, p. 238, pp. 257-258), it does seem to offer a viable and relevant framework for studying the topic.…”

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Party Political Representation in Portugal

Belchior¹

2008

South European Society and Politics

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“…In a review article, Jewell (1983) isolated four components of representation as defined by Eulau and Karps (1977): symbolic responsiveness, policy responsiveness, service responsiveness and allocation responsiveness. On the one hand, our results have shown that if the notion of symbolic representation (that is, a relationship 'built on trust and confidence' 18 ) remains significant for citizens towards their own MP, policy responsiveness (that is, the interaction of 'the representative and the represented .…”

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From Theory to Practice: Citizens’ Attitudes about Representation in France

Brouard¹,

Kerrouche

Deiss-Helbig

et al. 2013

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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French institutions, political culture and history have favoured a very abstract conception of representation: MPs are expected to embody collectively the French Nation, but little is known about citizens' concrete views on representation. In this paper, data gathered through a citizen mass survey are used. To overcome the usual abstract considerations on representation, respondents were asked their opinion on an MP who would endorse amendments proposed by an interest group. In the questionnaire, two features were changed randomly: the MP's political leaning and the type of interest group. It is shown by means of an original experiment that the 'general' conception representation has disappeared from citizens' attitudes: despite the enduring legitimacy of the general will approach in the public sphere, French citizens appear to promote a conception of representation close to the Madisonian views on pluralism involving a strong attachment to the logic of territorial electoral linkage.

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Legislator-Constituency Relations and the Representative Process

Cited by 61 publications

References 62 publications

The Check Is in the Mail: Interdistrict Funding Flows in Congressional Elections

The Check Is in the Mail: Interdistrict Funding Flows in Congressional Elections

Party Political Representation in Portugal

From Theory to Practice: Citizens’ Attitudes about Representation in France

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