The Effect of Incumbency on State Legislative Elections

Jewell, Malcolm E.; Breaux, David A.

doi:10.2307/439781

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“…Indeed, if high levels of electoral safety led to institutionalization we would expect that all state legislatures are institutionalizing because state legislators are as safe as V.S. House members (Jewell and Breaux 1988). This runs counter to Chubb's (1988, 143) assertion that, "Legislatures do not become thoroughly institutionalized ... when legislators decide they want to keep their positions but when they demonstrate that they can."…”

Section: The Assembly and Institutionalizationcontrasting

confidence: 47%

The Theory of Legislative Institutionalization and the California Assembly

Squire¹

1992

The Journal of Politics

102

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Section: The Assembly and Institutionalizationcontrasting

confidence: 47%

The Theory of Legislative Institutionalization and the California Assembly

Squire¹

1992

The Journal of Politics

102

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“…But this does not mean that members are disliked. Almost all state legislators are reelected, and by large margins (Jewell and Breaux 1988). Thus, for more professionalized legislatures there is the same paradox as at the congressional level (Parker and Davidson 1979;Patterson and Caldeira 1990): people like their representatives but not the institutions in which they serve.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 92%

Professionalization and Public Opinion of State Legislatures

Squire¹

1993

The Journal of Politics

129

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University ofIowaUsing a seven-state survey I examine how closely people follow the activities of the state legislature, how much contact they have with its members, and how they evaluate its perfonnance. In particular, I investigate whether legislative professionalization level or district size influences how people see their legislature. Professionalization has a positive relationship with contact but has a negative relationship with attention level and perfonnance rating. Constituency size exhibits little influence except on contacts.

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“…Incumbents tend to be favored in elections at all levels of office (e.g., Ansolabehere & Snyder, 2002;Cover, 1977;Erikson, 1971;Jewell & Breaux, 1988;Weisberg, 2002). Typical explanations for why candidates already in office get more votes are institutional: incumbents have access to more resources (Abramowitz, 1991) and can provide goods and services to constituents in exchange for support (Cain, Ferejohn, & Fiorina, 1987;Romero, 2006).…”

Section: Incumbency Effectsmentioning

confidence: 99%