Steven Rogers

TL;DR: Theories of electoral accountability predict that legislators will receive fewer votes if they fail to represent their districts as discussed by the authors, and the extent to which voters sanction legislators who cast unpopular roll-call votes or provide poor ideological representation.

TL;DR: This article found that the openness of a primary election has little, if any, effect on the extremity of the politicians it produces, and that the number of moderate elected officials has little effect on polarization.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluate the extent to which political accountability theories apply to state legislatures by addressing the question: do elections hold state legislators accountable for their own performance? In analyses of state legislative challenger decision-making, party performance, and representatives' roll call activity, they find little evidence of electoral accountability in state legislatures.

TL;DR: This article found that voters respond less to candidate ideology and policy positions than suggested by Fowler's original analyses, and that older and younger voters exhibit more intoxicated voting behavior than older voters prior to the civil rights movement, consistent with explanations of voting behavior rooted in social groups.