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Interpreting the 1974 Congressional Election

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Eric M. Uslaner ,
M. Margaret Conway ,
Gary C. Jacobson  and
Samuel Kernell
Eric M. Uslaner
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
M. Margaret Conway
Affiliation:
University of Maryland, College Park
Gary C. Jacobson
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
Samuel Kernell
Affiliation:
The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
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Abstract

What factors best account for the 1974 congressional election results? Were the Democratic party gains in House seats due mainly to the behavior of “strategic politicians” who sought or accepted candidacies and raised effective campaign war chests? Or were the Democratic gains due more to the impact of Watergate and the economy on voters' choices? In this Controversy, Gary C. Jacobson and Samuel Kernell defend the “strategic politicians” thesis, while Eric Uslaner and Margaret Conway stand by their more conventional accounting of the 1974 election outcome.

Type
Controversy
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American Political Science Review , Volume 80 , Issue 2 , June 1986 , pp. 591 - 595
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1986

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