The Roles of Party Organizations, Party-Connected Committees, and Party Allies in Elections

Herrnson, Paul S.

doi:10.1017/s0022381609990065

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“…Support from political networks facilitates access to necessary resources to deploy a successful campaign (Masket 2009;Herrnson 2009;Desmarais, La Raja, and Kowal 2015). Relying on this theory, I argue that it has serious implications for Latino representation, at least descriptively, but potentially substantively.…”

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confidence: 97%

The Wielding Influence of Political Networks: Representation in Majority-Latino Districts

Ocampo

2017

Political Research Quarterly

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Latino-majority congressional districts are far more likely to elect Latino representatives to Congress than majority-white districts. However, not all majority-Latino districts do so. This paper addresses this question and it investigates how the level of influence of political parties and interest groups in majority-Latino districts substantially shape Latino representation to the U.S. House of Representatives. I rely on five case studies and a dataset of candidates to open congressional races with a Latino population plurality from 2004-2014. The evidence indicates that groups and political networks are critical for Latino/a candidate recruitment, the organization of resources in a congressional district, the deployment of campaign resources on behalf of certain candidates and the eventual success of Latino candidates. The findings suggest that Latino descriptive and substantive representation are shaped by the wielding influence of political parties and interest groups.

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The Wielding Influence of Political Networks: Representation in Majority-Latino Districts

Ocampo

2017

Political Research Quarterly

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“…Unlike congressional elections from the 1950s to the 1980s, which are often described as "candidate-" or "personality-centered" contests, 61 modern campaigns are national or "party-centered" contents. 62 We know, for example, that there has been a sharp decline in ticket splitting in presidential and congressional races over the past 30 years. 63 Recent work has even shown that special elections-which occur off cycle and are thought to be highly candidate-centered contests-have developed into national contents since the 1990s.…”

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The Geographies of Economic Voting in Presidential and Congressional Elections

Ragusa¹

2016

Political Science Quarterly

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We investigate this question by examining how changing economic conditions shape voting behavior at various geographic levels. Recent research has trended in the opposite direction: exploring nuanced questions with increasingly sophisticated methodologies. In contrast, we explore a basic-but nonetheless critical-issue in the economic voting literature. While researchers have studied the effect of national conditions JORDAN M.

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“…Mapping the tight electoral links among groups has encouraged scholars to rethink who belongs to the party and how it is shaped (Herrnson 2009). For a long while, the party was conceived as an entity shaped by officeholders who used it to pursue individual aims related to their elections, careers and policy goals (Aldrich 1995).…”

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Richer Parties, Better Politics? Party-Centered Campaign Finance Laws and American Democracy

Raja

2013

The Forum

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Would "party-centered" campaign finance laws that channel money primarily through party organizations improve American politics? Scholars have long argued that political parties are essential mediating institutions in a democracy. Yet in comparison to other democracies, American campaign finance laws have been designed to be "candidate-centered." Constraints on political parties have also created opportunities for interest groups to engage directly in campaigns in support of favored candidates and policies. The growing presence in elections of interest groups at the expense of formal party organizations thus has potential negative implications for the functioning of democracy. This paper explains what we know about the relationship between money, campaign finance laws, and political parties, with the goal of exploring whether party-centered campaign finance laws might improve elections, representation, and governing. Importantly, it emphasizes the need for new knowledge that may help in designing new campaign finance laws.

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The Roles of Party Organizations, Party-Connected Committees, and Party Allies in Elections

Cited by 72 publications

References 21 publications

The Wielding Influence of Political Networks: Representation in Majority-Latino Districts

The Wielding Influence of Political Networks: Representation in Majority-Latino Districts

The Geographies of Economic Voting in Presidential and Congressional Elections

Richer Parties, Better Politics? Party-Centered Campaign Finance Laws and American Democracy

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