Candidates, Campaigns, or Partisan Conditions? Reevaluating Strategic‐Politicians Theory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6300542 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott J Basinger, Scott Basinger (Stony Brook University), Michael J Ensley (0000-0001-6977-1960, Indiana University) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 361-394 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Legislative Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-9805 • E-ISSN: 1939-9162 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3162/036298007781699654 |
| OpenAlex | W2130875942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 68 |
According to strategic‐politicians theory, political elites help ensure electoral responsiveness even when the mass public is deficient. Testing this theory requires measuring the effects of candidate experience and campaign spending, but one must confront endogeneity problems, because the theory requires potential candidates and campaign contributors to be responsive to district partisan conditions and national partisan tides. By applying an instrumental‐variable method to control for selection bias, we found that challenger experience only matters indirectly, through its effect on campaign expenditures, but partisan context matters both directly and indirectly. We theorize that challenger experience is best understood as an informational shortcut: it signals incumbent vulnerability to potential campaign contributors
Context (archaeology · Control (management · Econometrics · Economics · Endogeneity · Instrumental variable · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Selection (genetic algorithm · Variable (mathematics · Vulnerability (computing · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies
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Individual campaign contributions and candidate ideology
Voter response to congressional campaigns
Earmarks and Elections to the U.S. House of Representatives
The Redistricting Cycle, Partisan Tides, and Party Strategy in State Legislative Elections
Scandals and Congressional Elections in the Post-Watergate Era
Strategic Behavior in State Multimember Districts
The Impact of District Magnitude on Campaign Fundraising
Issue Accountability and the Mass Public
The Use of Party Brand Labels in Congressional Election Campaigns
District Complexity as an Advantage in Congressional Elections
Money and State Legislative Elections
The glitterati government? Amateur celebrity candidates in American elections, 1928-2018
Elections and the political order
International encyclopedia of the social sciences.
The Responsible Electorate
The Statistical Analysis of Quasi-Experiments
Linear Probability, Logit, and Probit Models
Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation When the Correlation Between the Instruments and the Endogeneous Explanatory Variable is Weak
Instrumental Variables and GMM
Problems with Instrumental Variables Estimation when the Correlation between the Instruments and the Endogenous Explanatory Variable is Weak
Primary Election Systems and Representation
Instrumental Variables Regression with Weak Instruments
The Changing American Voter
Incumbency, Campaign Spending, and the Decline of Competition in U.S. House Elections
Incumbency, Redistricting, and the Decline of Competition in U.S. House Elections
Strategy, Selection, and Candidate Competition in U.S. House and Senate Elections
When to Risk It? Institutions, Ambitions, and the Decision to Run for the U.S. House
Political Control of the Economy
Economic Conditions and the Congressional Vote
Determinants of Candidate Emergence in U. S. House Elections
Statistical Concepts and Methods
What do Candidates Maximize (and Why Should Anyone Care)
Gender Bias and Selection Bias in House Elections
Instrumental and "Quasi-Instrumental" Variables
Estimating the Effect of Campaign Spending on Senate Election Outcomes Using Instrumental Variables
Job Market Signaling
The Not-So-Simple Calculus of Winning
Strategic Decisions on Candidacy in U. S. Congressional Districts
Strategic Politicians and the Dynamics of U.S. House Elections, 1946–86
Short-Term Fluctuations in U.S. Voting Behavior, 1896–1964
Economic Conditions, Presidential Popularity, and Voting Behavior in Midterm Congressional Elections
Explaining Challenger Quality in Congressional Elections
The Effect of the AFL-CIO's "Voter Education" Campaigns on the 1996 House Elections
Campaign Spending and Incumbency
Preempting Quality Challengers in House Elections
Party Government and the Saliency of Congress
Surge and Decline
Candidates, Money, and Voters-Assessing the State of Congressional Elections Research
Incumbent Vulnerability and Challenger Emergence in Senate Elections
Checking Out
Salvation for the Spendthrift Incumbent
An Expected Party Vote
Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996
Does the Economy Matter in Midterm Elections
"Rebuttal to Jacobson's "New Evidence for Old Arguments
A Dynamic Analysis of The Role of War Chests in Campaign Strategy
Quality Counts
The Responsible Party Government Model in House and Senate Elections
The Effects of Campaign Spending in House Elections
Do Public Evaluations Of Congress Matter
Strategy and Choice in the 1982 Congressional Elections
Impeachment Politics in the 1998 Congressional Elections
The 1994 House Elections in Perspective
Equilibria in Campaign Spending Games
Candidates and Parties in Congressional Elections
The Responsible Congressional Electorate
The Effects of Campaign Spending in Congressional Elections
Determinants of the Outcomes of Midterm Congressional Elections
Institutional Arrangements and the Creation of Social Capital
Presidential Popularity and Negative Voting
Interpreting the 1974 Congressional Election
Out of Step, Out of Office
Assessing the Partisan Effects of Redistricting
Strategic Politicians and Unresponsive Voters
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,82 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |