NDLI: The Impact of Legislative Tenure and Seniority on General Election Success: Econometric Evidence from U.S. House Races

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Author	Duquette, Christopher M. Mixon, Franklin G. Cebula, Richard J.
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	The last four election-cycles in the U.S. House of Representatives (2004–2010) witnessed two shifts in political party control of that legislative body—from the Republicans to the Democrats in 2006 and then back to the Republicans in 2010. Nevertheless, U.S. House incumbents of both parties running for re-election tended to enjoy a sizeable advantage over their general-election challengers during the period. The advantage is even greater for incumbents who are members of the leadership, key committees, or have lengthy tenure. Our results show that, ceteris paribus, membership in the House leadership is worth on average 6.8 percentage points towards the incumbent’s expected vote-share, and that membership in either of the two top committees is worth an additional 1.3 such percentage points. A ten-term incumbent can expect another 2.0 percentage points of vote share. Lastly, our results also indicate the existence of a wave effect favoring Democratic incumbents in 2006, and a slightly smaller wave effect favoring Republican incumbents in 2010.
Starting Page	161
Ending Page	172
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01974254
Journal	Atlantic Economic Journal
Volume Number	41
Issue Number	2
e-ISSN	15739678
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2013-02-12
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior Legislative tenure Legislator seniority Incumbency Elections Economics general Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics Microeconomics International Economics Public Finance & Economics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics, Econometrics and Finance

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