The Personal is Political: Reconsidering the Impact of Scandals on Congressional Incumbents

Gulati, Jeff; Brown, Lara M.

doi:10.1080/07343469.2020.1788665

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“…Third, we control for whether the legislator holds a leadership position , as those individuals should be more likely to remain in the chamber (Butcher 2021). 8 Likewise, patterns of ambition are influenced by competition in several ways; thus, we control for both the previous margin of victory as a measure of district‐level competition, and whether the incumbent's party was positively or adversely affected by a wave election (e.g., Gulati and Brown 2021).…”

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Institutional Attachments and Patterns of Ambition in State Legislatures

Bowra

Makse

2022

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Studies of ambition often frame decisions to run for reelection, seek higher office, or retire in terms of the nature of those opportunities and the risks associated with them. However, career decisions can also be framed in terms of the value of one's present position, which depends on what we refer to as institutional attachments. In contrast to institutional positions (leadership, committee chairs), institutional attachments relate to social position in the legislature and how it has changed over time. In this article, we explore how factors related to institutional attachments influence career decisions. Specifically, we ask whether a legislator's cohort, including its size, compatibility, and experience in possessing majority status affect the propensity to exhibit static ambition. Looking at a sample of more than 5500 state legislative open‐seat opportunities in 47 states between 2003 and 2016, we find some but not all these traits are predictive of career decisions.

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confidence: 99%