Expressive Politics: Issue Strategies of Congressional ChallengersOhio State University Press, 2004 - 253 strani The advantage incumbent members of Congress hold over their opponents in campaigns for office has steadily grown over the past five decades. While students of congressional politics have analyzed the effect of this advantage on members' behavior in office, little is known of its effect on their opponents. Sitting members of the House frequently face underfinanced and obscure challengers. Conventional theories of electoral competition assume that the only hope those candidates have of even coming close to making such an election competitive is to align their policy positions as closely as possible to those of the median voter. Yet challengers to incumbents often run on quite extreme position platforms. In the majority of these uncompetitive races, Robert G. Boatright explains, a new type of politics is emerging--a politics of expressive campaigning, where challengers seek to use their campaigns as a platform for their own views and as a means of helping their party achieve goals other than winning the election at hand. This research makes two types of contributions to existing political science literature. On a theoretical level, it argues for a reconceptualization of the motives of candidates and parties in rational choice analysis. On a practical level, it seeks to enrich our understanding of the role that challengers play in American elections and of the reason why different types of challengers emerge in different types of elections. Boatright argues that the role of challengers in the American electoral process can be understood only if we broaden our theories about rational candidate behavior. |
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Parallel Histories The Incumbency Advantage and Electoral Competition | 1 |
The Rational Candidate and the Hopeless Cause | 17 |
Incumbents and Challengers Compared | 48 |
Its Not Like Rocket Science How Candidates Understand Public Opinion | 74 |
Like Throwing Golf Balls against the Wall The Candidates Talk About Issues and Ideology | 102 |
You Dont Know Me But Here I Am Candidate Perceptions of Party Strength | 142 |
Expressive Campaigning in 2000 and Beyond | 183 |
Conclusions Expressive Politics and Invisible Politics | 211 |
Notes | 227 |
Interviews | 231 |
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