Does Electoral Accountability Make a Difference? Direct Elections, Career Ambition, and Legislative Performance in the Argentine Senate
Does Electoral Accountability Make a Difference? Direct Elections, Career Ambition, and Legislative Performance in the Argentine Senate
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选举问责制有影响吗？
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10.1017/s0022381612000928
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2013
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通讯作者：
Juan Pablo Micozzi
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作者：
Juan Pablo Micozzi
对美国国会的研究表明，在美国宪法第17条修正案以直接选举取代间接任命后，参议员对选民的关注大幅增加。尽管这一发现似乎有助于理论概括，但随着对职业前景的关注不同，期望变得不明确。如果政治家们不指望连任，他们是否应该把注意力转移到选民身上？利用准实验设置，我分析的影响，从间接到直接选举选择阿根廷参议院的成员。我发展的论点，为什么，尽管缺乏系统的追求连任，当选参议员有激励措施，以更面向选民。通过对大约55，000份法案的分析，我评估了参议员在这两种合法性来源下的行为。研究结果支持这样一种观点，即观众成本对行为产生影响，无论短期...
Studies analyzing the American Congress demonstrate that senators’ attention towards voters substantially increased after the 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which replaced their indirect appointment with direct election. Even though this finding seems useful for theoretical generalizations, expectations become unclear as concerns about career perspectives differ. Should politicians with nonstatic ambition shift their attention towards voters if they do not expect reelection? Making use of a quasi-experimental setting, I analyze the impact of the shift from indirect to direct election to select the members of the Argentine Senate. I develop an argument for why, in spite of the lack of systematic pursuit of reelection, elected senators have incentives to be more oriented towards voters. Through the analysis of about 55,000 bills, I evaluate senatorial behavior under both sources of legitimacy. The findings support the idea that audience costs make a difference in behavior, regardless of short-term...