Elections to Open Seats in the U.S. House

Shifting the focal point from incumbency to open seat competition in the U.S. House of Representatives is the task this book embraces. In the process, the authors demonstrate the importance of candidates and competition, and the role of money, gender, and special elections in determining how open seats get filled and when partisan changes occur.

Ronald Keith Gaddie is associate professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma Charles S. Bullock, III, is Richard B. Russell Professor of Political Science at the University of Georgia

List of Illustrations

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Acknowledgments

xi

Where the Action Is: Why Open Seats Jump-Start Congressional Careers

1

(12)

Open Seat Congressional Elections: Are These Influenced by the Same Factors as Incumbent Elections?

13

(40)

Candidates and Competition: Who Are They? Where Do They Come From?

53

(32)

Investing in the Future

85

(44)

Women and Open Seat Congressional Elections

129

(18)

Special Elections: The Other Open Seats

147

(22)

Understanding the Past, Predicting the Future

169

(26)

Appendix: Forecasting the Open Seat Vote

195

(22)

Methodological Sources

217

(2)

References

219

(10)

Index

229

(10)

About the Authors

239

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Elections to Open Seats in the U.S. House Where the Action Is

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