Incumbent

majority of congressmen are incumbents, the person already holding office. Incumbency helps politicians stay in office once they are elected. Within the House of Representatives, the percentage of incumbents winning re-elections has been over eighty for the past fifty years. A race without an incumbent is a rarity and often referred to as an open seat election because of the lack of the incumbency advantage. The lack of opposition provides less incentive for incumbents to conform to the ideology…

Loyalty in Congress”, the authors Carson, Koger, Lebo, and Young, attempt to understand if partisan loyalty has a more significant adversely affect than ideological extremity on the electoral outcomes of incumbents. Therefore, the authors set up an experiment to determine whether voters punish incumbents more severely for voting lockstep partisanship than for ideological extremism. By understating the article’s results, political scientists are able to analyze if partisanship voting motivates…

causing an overstatement in the actual bias that incumbents enjoy. Strategic retirement and incumbent quality, these critics say, account for most, if not all, of the high reelection rates seen in recent years (Stone 187). Strategic retirement, or the practice of incumbents retiring instead of facing an unfavorable election cycle, is an accepted and measurable phenomenon. There is widespread disagreement on how this effect exaggerates the incumbent advantage, however. The theory that drives this…

If there are five or less keys labeled as false, then incumbent party wins. As these keys can have differing outcomes through differing opinions, it will be interesting to see if mine and my classmates’ predictions correlate with the author’s. The first four keys are politically based and measure the strength and unity of the incumbent party. The first key is factual based and reflects on whether after the midterm elections, the incumbent party holds more seats in the U.S. House of…

primary purpose of this position is to serve as the second-line supervisor and Lead Business Operator (Authority). The incumbent is responsible for managing and directing the air, maritime, land and information sharing…

Voter Behavior in American Presidential Elections Did you vote in the last presidential election? If so, who did you vote for and why? There are many factors that influence voters in presidential elections. Before we get into the different kinds of factors, let's observe what voting behavior is. The study of voter behavior is the examination of why people voted the way they did. A lot of Americans are reported to following news about national politics "very closely", but many voters…

this case study and suggest how you may make changes to improve the survey. A marketing research firm has been commissioned to conduct a survey on the likeability of a potential new candidate in riding A against an incumbent whose political party is not doing very well. However, the incumbent is liked by his constituents and they have a favourable view of this politician. The new candidate for the opposition party is well known in the community and his organization sponsors several community…

limit the number of terms a politician can serve. Although opponents say term limits lessen the number of incumbents in congress, actually it limits the effectiveness of interest groups, lessens partisan politics, and checks consolidation of power. Interest Groups will be less effective on politicians under term limits. With…

but the official name for this bill is called the Stop Act. Congressmen Jolly said “the “Stop Act” is needed because too many in Congress spend more time raising money than doing the job they were elected to do (Jolly 1).” The Stop Act will ban incumbents from directly receiving money from donators. The Stop Act has been adopted in 30 different states (Jolly 4). By establishing the Stop Act as a law all of the states must follow this law. As a result, the Stop Act will solve all three major…

“encourages the manipulation of our elections by allowing incumbent politicians to help partisan allies, hurt political enemies", and flips democracy on its head by allowing these politicians to choose their voters before the voters choose them. The article and the video adhere to the idea that redistricting allows for one political party to maintain political dominance and further political goals by drawing boundaries that protect incumbents and avoid demographic realities, rather than ensuring…