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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      December 2013
      December 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139207782
      9781107026476
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139207782
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.48kg, 214 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Politics and International Relations, Media, Mass Communication
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    Area Studies, American Studies, American Government, Politics and Policy, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Politics and International Relations, Media, Mass Communication
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    This book demonstrates the consequences of legislators' strategic communication for representation in American politics. Representational Style in Congress shows how legislators present their work to cultivate constituent support. Using a massive new data set of texts from legislators and new statistical techniques to analyze the texts, this book provides comprehensive measures of what legislators say to constituents and explains why legislators adopt these styles. Using the new measures, Justin Grimmer shows how legislators affect how constituents evaluate their representatives and the consequences of strategic statements for political discourse. The introduction of new statistical techniques for political texts allows a more comprehensive and systematic analysis of what legislators say and why it matters than was previously possible. Using these new techniques, the book makes the compelling case that to understand political representation, we must understand what legislators say to constituents.

    Awards

    Winner, 2014 Richard F. Fenno, Jr Prize, Legislative Studies Section, American Political Science Association

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    "Representational Style in Congress targets a question long of interest to scholars of legislative politics: how and why do legislators engage in strategic communication with their constituents about their work on Capitol Hill? Grimmer uses new data and new methods to develop measures of senators’ discourse and then demonstrates convincingly how these presentational styles matter for dyadic and collective representation. This book is a compelling and important contribution to the study of congressional behavior and political communication."
    Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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