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200 10$aRepresentation and institutional design /$fRebekah L. Herrick
210   $aLanham, Md. $cLexington Books$dc2011
215   $a1 online resource (187 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311 08$a0-7391-5067-7 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aCONTENTS; List of Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; 1 Institutions and Representation; 2 Institutional Effects on the Incumbency Advantage; 3 Institutional Design and Ambition; 4 Institutional Design and Role Orientation; 5 Institutional Design and Symbolic Representation; 6 Institutional Design, Legislators' Information, and Perceptual Accuracy; 7 Institutional Design and Substantive Representation; 8 Conclusion; Appendix A: State Legislators and Their Districts; Appendix B: Descriptive Statistics of Variables; References; Index
330   $aRepresentation and Institutional Design examines how variation in the structures and processes of state legislatures affect how legislators represent their constituents. It examines whether electoral laws, term limits, professionalism, and district size and magnitude affect legislators' electoral vulnerability, ambition, and role orientations, as well as their actions involving symbolic, service and policy representation. This book reveals that legislative staff increases legislators' closeness to their constituents, legislative resources tend to increase symbolic and service representation bu
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