03459nam a22004335i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050001600153072001700169072002300186072001600209100008100225245016000306250001800466264007900484300006700563336002600630337002600656338003600682347002400718505045100742520145401193650001702647650003802664650003102702650002602733650002302759650002902782710003402811773002602845776003602871776003602907776003602943856004602979978-3-031-74929-2DE-He21320251030114633.0cr nn 008mamaa241222s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830317492927 a10.1007/978-3-031-74929-22doi 4aJF375.2-619 7aLNDP2bicssc 7aPOL0280002bisacsh 7aLNDP2thema1 aJohnston, Travis M.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut14aThe Nationalization of Congressional Politicsh[electronic resource] :bReshaping What Voters Expect and Get from Representatives /cby Travis M. Johnston.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,c2024.  aXVIII, 192 p. 34 illus., 31 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda0 aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: All Politics is National.-Chapter 3: What Voters Expect and Want from Representatives -- Chapter 4: Policy without Compromise -- Chapter 5: Nationalized Strategies for Local Campaigns .-Chapter 6: Crime in Our Streets: How Candidates Identify Problems and Define Issues.-Chapter 7: Repealing “Obama Core”: How Bipartisan Solutions are Undone by Activist Revolts -- Chapter 8: Uncompromising Expectations.  aThis book examines the consequences of nationalization for members of Congress and the voters they represent. Constituents have come to evaluate their elected representatives on the basis of their national policy records. Although the public expects the government to tackle important problems, many of the most engaged voters are also the most uncompromising—a fact that carries important legislative implications. During campaigns, candidates reflect these expectations back to voters by emphasizing broad policy issues that are largely divorced from local conditions. Meanwhile, officeholders carefully navigate the legislative process to avoid provoking national policy activists in and outside the district. Taken together, the book's study of mass opinion and elite behavior shows how the nationalization of U.S. politics creates a legislative conundrum for Congress. The impulse to focus on national policy and a refusal to compromise one's "values" are often incompatible goals, resulting in legislative gridlock with little hope for relief. Travis M. Johnston is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He served as committee staff for the Senate's Heath, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. His work appears in PS: Politics and Political Science, Studies in American Political Development, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Punishment and Society, Review of Higher Education, among others. 0aLegislation. 0aAmericaxPolitics and government. 0aCommunication in politics.14aLegislative Politics.24aAmerican Politics.24aPolitical Communication.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303174928508iPrinted edition:z978303174930808iPrinted edition:z978303174931540uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-74929-2