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- Title
Two Plus Two Plus Two Equals Six: Tenure in Office of Senators And Representatives, 1953-1983.
- Authors
Glazer, Amihai; Grofman, Bernard
- Abstract
We consider the relationship between reelection rates and the expected tenure in office of members in the U.S. House and Senate. For senators and representatives to have the same mean years of service, we show that the mean reelection probability of representatives would need to be equal to three times the reelection probability of senators minus two. We also provide a simple approximation formula to estimate the mean individual reelection probability of legislators from data on the mean term of service in the legislature, and vice versa, taking into account the proportion of members of each chamber who run for reelection.
- Subjects
UNITED States; TERM of office of United States legislators; UNITED States legislators; LEGISLATIVE bodies; ELECTIONS; LEGISLATIVE voting; LEGISLATION; UNITED States politics &; government, 1981-1989
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1987, Vol 12, Issue 4, p555
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/439748