Competence, Integrity, and the Electoral Success of Congressional Incumbents
- 1 November 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The Journal of Politics
- Vol. 57 (4) , 1043-1069
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2960401
Abstract
All voters may share a common interest in maximizing the quality of representatives in the U.S. House. If voters act on this interest when evaluating congressional candidates, then the electoral sy...This publication has 13 references indexed in Scilit:
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