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The Electoral Connection
1974
David Mayhew
How does the reelection goal affect what model of representation a member employs?
Purposive Behavior
"If a group of planners sat down and tried to design a pair of American national assemblies with the goal of serving members' reelection needs year in and year out, they would be hard pressed to improve on what exists."
- David Mayhew
What motivates members ?
Proximate Goal
"proximate, rather than ultimate, goals"
—Reinhold Niebuhr
What are the things that pull members apart from each other?
Can Mayhew Survive in 2021?
Under what mode do you think the modern Congress operates?
How do they keep winning?
Under what conditions are incumbents unsafe?
"The incumbency advantage has diminished in conjunction with an increase in party loyalty, straight-ticket voting, and president-centered electoral nationalization, products of the widening and increasingly coherent partisan divisions in the American electorate"(Erikson 2015, 861).
While the Constitution outlines congressional authorities, it says nothing about institutional organization.
How do congressional procedures aid in the proximate goal?
Expected Incumbent Differential
Members must strategically engage in activities to increase the differential.
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