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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Impact of Competition on Congressional Behavior
Abstract
dc:descriptionOne of the fundamental problems in a democracy is how to make government officials responsive to the desires of those they represent. To solve this problem representative democracies employ the mechanism of periodic free elections. Yet for contemporary democratic theorists such as Seymour Martin Lipset, Robert Dahl, and V. O. Key, periodic free elections are not by themselves enough to ensure the responsiveness of public officials. One crucial condition must also be present--competition. Competition is assumed to make political leaders responsive to the desires of the mass public because they wish to avoid the sanction of electoral defeat.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Political Science
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- White, Marshall Harold
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8114499
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/66688