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- Title
Multidimensional Responsiveness: The Determinants of Legislators' Representational Priorities.
- Authors
Harden, Jeffrey J.
- Abstract
American politics scholars typically conceptualize representation narrowly as mass-elite policy responsiveness, with many studies identifying factors that hinder that relationship. These findings contrast with the high reelection rates in American legislatures. I show that policy is only one of several dimensions through which legislators provide representation. I unify policy, service, allocation, and descriptive representation in a model of legislators' priorities and then test it with survey experiments administered to 1,175 state legislators. I posit that legislators systematically emphasize different dimensions to further the goal of reelection. Results show that legislative institutions, district demand, and individual traits structure legislators' strategic representational priorities.
- Subjects
UNITED States; PRIORITY (Philosophy); UNITED States legislators; POLITICAL elites; UNITED States elections; VOTING research; REPRESENTATIVE government; POLITICAL psychology; PRACTICAL politics; PROFESSIONALISM; ELECTION districts; POLITICAL competition; MANIPULATION checks (Research)
- Publication
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2013, Vol 38, Issue 2, p155
- ISSN
0362-9805
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/lsq.12009