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MAGA Trumps the Incumbency Advantage in a Dueling Incumbent Primary

American Politics Research
Redistricting is the causal agent responsible for two incumbents facing off in U.S. House elections and hence, despite the rarity of these matchups, they occur periodically due to district boundary changes. In this article, we examine who wins a recent and highly competitive incumbent duel: the 2024 GOP primary in Alabama’s congressional district (CD ...
M. V. Hood, David Hughes, Seth C. McKee
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The Advantage of Incumbency in Congressional Elections

Polity, 1971
The purpose of this study is to measure the effect of incumbency on the vote division in elections for the United States House of Representatives. It is commonly assumed that being an incumbent offers a considerable advantage to the congressional candidate.
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Challenger Quality and the Incumbency Advantage

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2016
Most estimates of the incumbency advantage and the electoral benefits of previous officeholding experience do not account for strategic entry by high‐quality challengers. We address this issue by using term limits as an instrument for challenger quality.
Pamela Ban, Elena Llaudet, James M. Snyder   +2 more
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Mergers in Auctions with an Incumbent Advantage

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
When the winner of one auction gains a cost advantage in the next, bids reflect not only the value of winning the auction, but also the value of gaining an incumbent advantage in future auctions. If a larger firm's advantage derives from a cost or product advantage, it has a greater chance of holding onto incumbency status which, in turn, increases the
Luke M. Froeb, Mikhael Shor, Steven T. Tschantz   +2 more
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Electoral Competition and Incumbency Advantages

2004
Imagine at least two candidates either of whom might win a majority of the votes cast by actively involved citizens—a competitive election. In reality, candidates for state legislatures often run unopposed in primary elections that attract less than 20 percent of the voters.
Marjorie Sarbaugh-Thompson, Lyke Thompson, Charles D. Elder, John Strate, Richard C. Elling   +4 more
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Municipal control as incumbency advantage

2018
Earlier literature showed that under some conditions, intergovernmental fiscal ties between local and national governments benefit the incumbent party by helping it to build an effective political machine or by establishing the party as the only credible alternative.
Kemahlıoğlu, Özge, Özdemir, Elif
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The Advantage of Incumbency in House Elections

American Politics Quarterly, 1980
This article offers another perspective on the electoral advantage of incumbents in House elections. The explanation (or theory) builds on the contributions of Richard Fenno, Morris Fiorina, David Mayhew, and Anthony Downs. The basic premise is that the electoral advantage enjoyed by House incumbents is a function of their ability to focus constituent ...
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No Sorting, No Advantage: Regression Discontinuity Estimates of Incumbency Advantage in Japan

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2015
While the existing literature has identified a sizable incumbency advantage in single-member district (SMD) races in developed democracies, we argue that some political and institutional contexts of Japan’s Lower House elections would undermine the incumbency advantage.
Kenichi Ariga, Yusaku Horiuchi, Roland Mansilla, Michio Umeda   +3 more
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Incumbency Advantage and the Persistence of Legislative Majorities

Legislative Studies Quarterly, 1997
Between 1955 and 1995, although the GOP occasionally controlled the Senate and won landslide presidential election victories, the Democratic party controlled the majority of seats in the U.S. House. This paper argues that Republican, indeed, any minority party's problems stem from the interaction between career decisions and electoral prospects.
Stephen Ansolabehere, Alan Gerber
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Corporate taxation, incumbency advantage and entry

European Economic Review, 1996
Abstract It is the purpose of this paper to show that corporation tax may affect industrial structure. Analyzing the effects of corporation tax, we demonstrate that it tends to favour incumbents over entrants. We further show that the effect of this advantage on an incumbent's output depends on his profit or loss history.
Elie Appelbaum, Eliakim Katz
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