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Constituency Congruency and Candidate Competition in U.S. House Elections

Jamie L. CarsonMichael CrespinCarrie EavesEmily Wanless

出版	SSRN, 2008
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-k3bzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Previous research on candidate competition in congressional elections has focused largely on the question of how much context matters in emergence decisions and election outcomes. If a candidate has previously held elected office, one additional consideration that may factor into entry decisions is the relative degree of overlap between the candidate's current constituency and the "new" set of voters that she is seeking to represent in the new position. Using GIS software, we are able to derive a measure of the challenger's personal vote by focusing on the degree of constituency congruency between state legislative and congressional districts. This new measure enables us to evaluate electioneering independent of name recognition. Our results indicate that state legislators are more likely to run for a seat in the U.S. House if constituency congruency is relatively high. When they start with a strong voter base, they also do better in the election since they do not have to convince an entirely new set of voters to support them.