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The Politics of Congressional Elections (Longman Classics Series), 6/E
Gary C. Jacobson, University of California, San Diego

ISBN-10: 0321100409
ISBN-13: 9780321100405

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 296 pp
Published: 12/22/2003

Suggested retail price: $53.00
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Among the new class of inductees into the “Longman Classics in Political Science” series, this completely revised and updated edition continues to offer readers an authoritative and engaging account of what goes on in congressional elections.

Bringing everything up-to-date, this Sixth Edition of Gary Jacobson's classic work analyzes recent electoral trends in Congress and demonstrates how electoral politics reflect and shape other basic components of our political system.

  • Considers normative issues about representation and responsibility, helping readers to see the profound consequences that proceed from congressional election politics and encouraging them to think about and question our current system.

  • Integrates the latest National Election Study (NES), FEC, and final official vote data throughout the text.
  • Thorough analysis of the 2000 and 2002 elections, including coverage of the Republican's reversal of historical trends by increasing their control of Congress in 2002.
  • Updated and in-depth coverage of changes in campaign finance.
  • Coverage of the Bush administration, its investment of political capital, and its impact on congressional elections.
  • As part of the “Longman Classics in Political Science” series, a new Foreword examines the book's historical and enduring contributions to the discipline.



1. Introduction.


2. The Context.

The Constitutional Framework.

Congressional Districts.

Partisan Gerrymandering.

Racial Gerrymandering.

States as Electoral Units.

Election Laws.

Political Parties.

Social and Political Contexts.



3. Congressional Candidates.

The Incumbency Factor.

Measuring the Value of Incumbency.

The Vanishing Marginals.

Sources of the Incumbency Advantage.

The Institutional Characteristics of Congress.

Changes in Voting Behavior.

Constituency Service.

The Variability of the Incumbency Advantage.

Discouraging the Opposition.

Money in Congressional Elections.

The Connection Between Money and Success.

Why Campaign Money Is More Important to Challengers.

The Career in the District.

Motivating Challengers.



4. Congressional Campaigns.

Campaign Money.

Political Action Committees.

Party Money.

Self-Financing by Candidates.

Fundraising Tactics.

Campaign Organizations.

Campaign Strategies.

Campaign Media.

Personal Campaigning.

Campaign Messages.

Challengers' Campaigns.

Going Negative.

Incumbents' Campaigns.

Candidates for Open Seats.

Senate Campaigns.

“Voter Education” and “Issue Advocacy” Campaigns.

Concluding Observations.



5. Congressional Voters.

Turnout in Congressional Elections.

Partisanship in Congressional Elections.

Alternative Interpretations of Party Identification.

Partisanship and Voting.

Information and Voting.

Recall and Recognition of Candidates.

Contacting Voters.

The Effects of Campaign Spending.

Models of Voting Behavior.

Evaluating Incumbents.

Winning Challengers.

Issues in Congressional Elections.



6. National Politics and Congressional Elections.

Political Interpretations of Congressional Elections.

Models of Aggregate Congressional Election Results.

Presidential Coattails.

National Conditions and Strategic Politics.

Campaign Themes.

House Elections, 1980-1998.

The Clinton Problem.

Nationalizing the Vote.

The Campaigns.

The Scandal and the Campaigns.

House Election Patterns, 1980-1998.

Senate Elections, 1980-1998.



7. Elections and the Politics of Congress.

The Congressional Parties.

The Committee Systems.

Making Policy.

Particularism.

Serving the Organized.

Immobility.

Symbolism.

Doing the Right Thing.

Building Coalitions.

The Budgetary Process.



8. Representation, Responsibility, Impeachment Politics, and the Future of Congressional Elections.

Representation.

Policy Congruence.

Beyond Policy Congruence.

Descriptive Representation.

Responsiveness without Responsibility.

The Revival of Party Cohesion.

Ideological Polarization in Congress and the Electorate.

Party Polarization: The Electoral Connection.

Diverging Electoral Constituencies.

Chicken or Egg?

Party Polarization and the Politics of Impeachment.

Divided Government in the 1990s.

Reforming Congress.

Term Limits.

The Public's Evaluation of Congress.

Toward the Millennium.



Bibliography.


Index.

    Brought completely up-to-date with the latest data from the National Election Study and the Federal Election Commission, and including coverage and analysis of the dramatic 2006 midterm elections, this seminal work continues to offer a systematic account of what goes on in congressional elections and demonstrates how electoral politics reflect and shape other components of the political system, with profound consequences for representative government.

     

    The Seventh Edition of this work — one of the Longman Classics in Political Science — provides completely up-to-date coverage of congressional election politics, broadly understood.  Jacobson analyzes how congressional campaigns and elections reflect deeper structural patterns and currents in American political life and help determine how — and how well — we are governed.  The book traces the connections between electoral politics in Congress and other important political phenomena and makes questions of representation and responsibility its chief normative concern.

     

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