caa a22 4500 386340773 CHVBK 20180307111749.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/1962060 doi S000305540008597X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/1962060 Jacobson Gary C. University of California, San Diego Strategic Politicians and the Dynamics of U.S. House Elections, 1946-86 [Elektronische Daten] [Gary C. Jacobson] Analysis of both district-level and aggregate time-series data from postwar House elections supports the thesis that strategic political elites play a pivotal role in translating national conditions into election results and therefore in holding members of Congress collectively accountable for the government's performance. More high-quality candidates run when prospects appear to favor their party; they also win significantly more votes and victories than other candidates in equivalent circumstances. Thus, strategic career decisions both reflect and enhance national partisan tides. The electoral importance of strategic politicians has grown over time in tandem with the trend toward candidate-centered electoral politics. This has rendered the effects of national forces less automatic, more contingent, thus threatening the capacity of elections to enforce some degree of collective responsibility. Copyright © American Political Science Association 1989 American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/3(1989-09), 773-793 0003-0554 83:3<773 1989 83 PSR https://doi.org/10.2307/1962060 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/1962060 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Jacobson Gary C. University of California, San Diego NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- American Political Science Review Cambridge University Press 83/3(1989-09), 773-793 0003-0554 83:3<773 1989 83 PSR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge