Congressmen's Voting Decisions

Does democracy “suffer” from diversity? Issue representation and diversity in senate elections

“…Kingdon 1973) and the committee behavior literature (e.g. Hall 1996), that suggest that constituents have a substantive influence on behavior.…”

Legislative Success in a Small World: Social Network Analysis and the Dynamics of Congressional Legislation

“…At the same time, none of this literature has explicitly considered how the variation in the aggregate patterns of social relationships might affect the policies produced by Congress. Although congressional scholars, such as Kingdon (1973), long-ago generated descriptions of how members of Congress relate to one another and how these relationships affect their voting decisions, these theories have scarcely been quantified and tested. 1 We intend to demonstrate that the Congressional social network is an instance of a special class of networks, ''small-world networks.''…”

Legislators’ Need for Civil Society Expertise: Tunisian Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Opportunity

“…This was the result of the responsiveness tool used, the high trust in CSOs by, and the lack of institutional and personal capacities on the part on the part of legislators. Based on the assumption that legislators want to be reelected and advance their political careers (Mayhew 1974;Kingdon 1989), legislators evaluate the best way to respond to constituents and where to invest their energy and time. Legislators who respond to constituents mainly by casework and pork-barrel do so at the expense of participation in policy making or influence over the proposed policies (Abdel-Samad 2009).…”

“…Using the rational choice model, 3 Mayhew (1974) and Kingdon (1989) explained that legislators respond to constituents partly to ensure they are reelected. Eulau and Karps (1977) outlined four categories of legislators' responses to constituents, namely allocation, policy, services, and symbolic responsiveness.…”