Congressional town halls

IF 1.4 3区社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Legislative Studies Quarterly Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI:10.1111/lsq.12456

Andrew J. Clarke, Daniel Markovits

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Abstract

Members of the US Congress held over 25,000 town hall meetings over the last eight years, and yet we know very little about the role that these events play in American politics. In this article, we present new data on congressional town hall meetings held in the 114th to 117th Congresses (2015–2022) to explore why politicians hold such meetings. In short, we do not find consistent evidence that electoral vulnerability drives legislators to their districts. Nor do we find support for claims of a zero-sum tradeoff between lawmaking and district representation. However, members of the president's opposition party clearly and consistently host more town hall meetings, suggesting that party messaging may be at the heart of this often-overlooked congressional behavior.

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国会全体会议

在过去八年中，美国国会议员举行了超过 25000 次市政厅会议，但我们对这些活动在美国政治中扮演的角色知之甚少。在本文中，我们提供了第 114 届至第 117 届国会（2015-2022 年）期间举行的国会市政厅会议的新数据，以探讨政治家举行此类会议的原因。简而言之，我们没有发现一致的证据表明，选举的脆弱性促使议员们前往自己的选区。我们也没有发现支持立法和选区代表之间零和权衡的说法。然而，总统的反对党成员显然会持续举办更多的市政厅会议，这表明政党信息传递可能是这种经常被忽视的国会行为的核心。

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Legislative Studies Quarterly POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

2.60

自引率

13.30%

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期刊介绍： The Legislative Studies Quarterly is an international journal devoted to the publication of research on representative assemblies. Its purpose is to disseminate scholarly work on parliaments and legislatures, their relations to other political institutions, their functions in the political system, and the activities of their members both within the institution and outside. Contributions are invited from scholars in all countries. The pages of the Quarterly are open to all research approaches consistent with the normal canons of scholarship, and to work on representative assemblies in all settings and all time periods. The aim of the journal is to contribute to the formulation and verification of general theories about legislative systems, processes, and behavior.