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The Role of Donald Trump in the 2022 Republican Congressional Primaries
This chapter considers how Donald Trump influenced the 2022 Republican primaries. It describes how Republican Party primaries have evolved in recent...
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Experience Narratives and Populist Rhetoric in U.S. House Primaries
Given the openness of U.S. nominations, it may be easier for outsiders with no prior experience to use populist rhetoric to become a major party...
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Virginia’s Second Congressional District: New Redistricting in the Old Dominion
Congressional redistricting follows each decennial Census, often with partisan influence. Redistricting in the Commonwealth of Virginia has rested...
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Do Primaries Improve Evaluations of Public Officials? Experimental Evidence from Mexico
Do nomination rules shape how voters evaluate their representatives? Some scholars argue that, in places where trust in political parties is low,...
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Partisanship in Congressional Travels abroad
Members of Congress frequently cite official travels abroad as one of the best opportunities to develop friendships across the aisle. Yet since 1977,...
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CueAnon: What QAnon Signals About Congressional Candidates and What it Costs Them
Most research investigates why the public embraces conspiracy theories, but few studies empirically examine how Americans evaluate the politicians...
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Virginia’s 7th Congressional District: Birth of a Bellwether
Virginia’s 7th Congressional District is the type of district that determines House majorities. In 2018 Democratic challenger Abigail Spanberger...
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Social Fabric Decay: The Case of Congressional Travels Abroad
Members of Congress frequently tout their official travels abroad as one of the best opportunities to develop friendships across the aisle. Yet since...
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Talking Trump: An Assessment of Trumpian Rhetorical Cues Among Trump Endorsees in the 2022 Congressional Elections
Political scientists Calfano and Djupe’s work focuses on the concept of “God Talk.” This term is defined as “the religious communication of political...
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Southern California’s Flipped Congressional Districts: Bumpy Roads to Reelection and Defeat
Five Southern California congressional districts flipped from Republicans to Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections, apparently a tip** point in...
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Oklahoma’s District 5th Congressional Race: Deep Red Mobilization Defeats the Blue Wave Incumbent
Oklahoma congressional elections rarely garner national attention. The 2020 Oklahoma 5th District race was different. Following Representative Kendra...
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The Transformation of the Congressional Primary
In the past decade, ideological division has become the dominant discourse of internal party conflict, transforming the nature of congressional...
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The case for the five in final five voting
My central concern is not, which electoral system would elect the best winner, but rather: which electoral system would be most likely to elect a...
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In Party We Trust? Voter Support for Party-Backed Candidates in Primary Elections
When parties decide, do voters listen? We argue that the answer depends on voters’ trust in the institutions of American politics. Using both a...
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The 2022 Midterm Elections: A Murky Clear View of Congress’ Future
This chapter provides an overview of the dynamics that impacted the outcomes of the 2022 midterm congressional elections including the role of...
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Resisting the Wave: Examining Co-Partisan Coattail Effects Between the Senate and House 1958–2022
Congressional elections scholarship has paid considerable attention to the relationship between presidential politics and midterm outcomes; what is...
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Florida’s 26th and 27th Congressional Districts: Two Cuban American Strongholds Support Non-Cuban Democrats for Congress
If Democrats were to capture control of the House of Representatives in 2018, they needed to turn Florida’s Congressional Districts 26 and 27 from...
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Women, Novices, and Veterans: Diversity in the 2018 Democratic House Primaries
A high number of novice candidates received the Democratic nomination for the US House in 2018. However, a deeper look reveals even more novice...
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Joe Biden’s Road to the Nomination
At the beginning of a turbulent election year in the USA, it was initially difficult to anticipate who would challenge Donald Trump in the...
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Female Officeholders and Women’s Political Engagement: The Role of Parties
The ability of women in office to inspire other women to enter politics can be an important process in undoing longstanding gender gaps in political...
