Retrospective Voting and Political Representation
@article{Cho2009RetrospectiveVA, title={Retrospective Voting and Political Representation}, author={Seok-ju Cho}, journal={American Journal of Political Science}, year={2009}, volume={53}, pages={276-291} }
This article develops a theoretical model of political representation under the single-member district system. I establish the existence of equilibria in which legislative voting of each legislator depends only on her preference and her electorate's preference and voters sanction badly behaved incumbents and retain well-behaved ones based solely on their own representatives' roll-call records. In equilibrium, voters achieve a partial representation with respect to representatives' behavior in…
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