Minority status, ideology, or opportunity: Explaining the greater retirement of house republicans

Legislative Studies Quarterly

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 219-244

  Murakami, Michael H ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 67650311320     PISSN: 03629805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3162/036298009788314291     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Abramson, Paul, John Aldrich, and David Rohde. 1987. "Progressive Ambition among United States Senators, 1972-1988." Journal of Politics 49: 3-35.
2. Ansolabehere, Stephen, and Alan Gerber. 1997. "Incumbency Advantage and the Persistence of Legislative Majorities." Legislative Studies Quarterly 22: 161 - 78.
3. Baker, Ross K. 2001. House and Senate. New York: W.W. Norton.
4. Bishin, Benjamin G. 2003. "Independently Validating Ideology Measures." American Politics Research 31: 404-25.
5. Box-Steffensmeier, Janet M., and Bradford S. Jones. 1997. "Time Is of the Essence: Event History Models in Political Science." American Journal of Political Science 41: 1414-61.
6. Brace, Paul. 1984. "Progressive Ambition in the House." Journal of Politics 46: 556-71.
7. Bullock, Charles S. 1972. "House Careerists: Changing Pattern of Longevity and Attrition." American Political Science Review 66: 1295-1300.
8. Cooper, Joseph, and William West. 1981. "Voluntary Retirement, Incumbency, and the Modern House." Political Science Quarterly 96: 279-300.
9. Copeland, Gary W 1989. "Choosing to Run: Why House Members Seek Election to the Senate." Legislative Studies Quarterly 14: 549-66.
10. Ehrenhalt, Alan. 1992. The United States of Ambition. New York: Times Books.
11. Fenno, Richard F. 1973. Congressmen in Committees. Boston: Little, Brown.
12. Fenno, Richard F. 1989. The Making of a Senator: Dan Quayle. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
13. Fiorina, Morris P. 1996. Divided Government. 2d ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
14. Fleisher, Richard, and Jon R. Bond. 2000. "Polarized Politics: Does It Matter?" In Polarized Politics: Congress and the President in a Partisan Era, ed. Jon R. Bond and Richard Fleisher. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
15. Frantzich, Stephen E. 1978. "De-Recruitment: The Other Side of the Congressional Equation." Western Political Quarterly 31: 105-26.
16. Gilmour, John B., and Paul Rothstein. 1993. "Early Republican Retirement: A Cause of Democratic Dominance in the House of Representatives. " Legislative Studies Quarterly 18: 346-66.
17. Hall, Richard L., and Robert Van Houweling. 1995. "Avarice and Ambition in Congress: Representatives' Decisions to Run or Retire from the U.S. House." American Political Science Review 89: 121-36.
18. Herrnson, Paul S. 2000. Congressional Elections: Campaigning at Home and in Washington. 3d ed. Washington, DC: CQ Press.
19. Hibbing, John R. 1982. "Voluntary Retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives: Who Quits?" American Journal of Political Science 26: 651-65.
20. Hibbing, John R. 1991. Congressional Careers: Contours of Life in the U.S. House of Representatives. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.
21. Hibbing, John R., and John R. Alford. 1990. "Constituency Population and Representativeness in the United States Senate." Legislative Studies Quarterly 15: 581-98.
22. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research and Carroll McKibbin. ROSTER OF UNITED STATES CONGRESSIONAL OFFICEHOLDERS AND BIOGRAPHICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CONGRESS, 1789-1996: MERGED DATA [Computer file]. 10th ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1997. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07803.
23. Jacobson, Gary C. 1990. The Electoral Origins of Divided Government: Competition in U.S. House Elections, 1946-1988. Boulder, CO: Westview.
24. Jacobson, Gary C. 2009. The Politics of Congressional Elections. 7th ed. New York: Pearson Education.
25. Jacobson, Gary C, and Samuel Kernell. 1983. Strategy and Choice in Congressional Elections. 2d ed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
26. Lee, Francis E., and Bruce I. Oppenheimer. 1999. Sizing Up the Senate: The Unequal Consequences of Equal Representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
27. Livingston, Steven G, and Sally Friedman. 1993. "Reexamining Theories of Congressional Retirement: Evidence from the 1980s." Legislative Studies Quarterly 18: 231-53.
28. Lowi, Theodore J. 1985. The Personal President: Power Invested, Promise Unfulfilled. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
29. Moore, Michael K., and John R. Hibbing. 1992. "Is Serving in Congress Fun Again? Voluntary Retirements from the House since the 1970s." American Journal of Political Science 36: 824-28.
30. Moore, Michael K., and John R. Hibbing. 1998. "Situational Disutility in Congress: Explaining Voluntary Departures." Journal of Politics 60: 1088-1107.
31. Polsby, Nelson W. 1993. "Some Arguments against Congressional Term Limitations." Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 16: 101-18.
32. Poole, Keith T., and Howard Rosenthal. 1997. Congress: A Political-Economic History of Roll Call Voting. New York: Oxford University Press.
33. Rohde, David W. 1979. "Risk-bearing and Progressive Ambition: The Case of Members of the United States House of Representatives." American Journal of Political Science 23: 1-26.
34. Schlesinger, Joseph A. 1966. Ambition and Politics: Political Careers in the United States. Chicago: Rand McNally.
35. Theriault, Sean M. 1998. "Moving Up or Moving Out: Career Ceilings and Congressional Retirement." Legislative Studies Quarterly 23: 419-33.