Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage
| Title: | Constituency Service and Incumbency Advantage |
| Author: | King, Gary |
| Citation: | King, Gary. 1991. Constituency service and incumbency advantage. British Journal of Political Science 21(1): 119-128. |
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| Abstract: | Numerous scholars have documented a dramatic increase in incumbency advantage in US congressional elections and also state legislative elections over the past four decades. For example, Gelman and King show that incumbents in the House of Representatives now receive about twelve extra percentage points solely as a result of holding congressional office during the campaign; the comparable figure for most of the first half of this century was only 2 per cent. This advantage of incumbency has made members of the US House and many state legislators nearly invulnerable to electoral defeat. |
| Published Version: | doi:10.1017/S0007123400006062 |
| Other Sources: | http://gking.harvard.edu/files/abs/constit-abs.shtml |
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