POWER OF THE PEOPLE: Congressional Competition, Public Attention, and Voter Retribution

by SEAN THERIAULT

The Ohio State University Press, 2005

Cloth: 978-0-8142-0992-9 | Paper: 978-0-8142-5140-9 | eISBN: 978-0-8142-7293-0 (institutional)

Library of Congress Classification JK1021.T54 2005

Dewey Decimal Classification 328.730775

Contents
List of Illustrations
Chapter 1 The Two Faces of Democratic Accountability	
Chapter 2 The Politics of Public Pressure: Competition, Attention, and Retribution	
Chapter 3 Patronage, Political Parties, the Public, and the Pendleton Act of 1883	
Chapter 4 Congressional Pay Raises and Public Scrutiny
Chapter 5 The Modern History of Campaign Finance Reform	
Chapter 6 The Unfulfilled Reform: Congressional Term Limits 	
Chapter 7 The Power of the People
Notes	
Bibliography
Index

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