Goal salience and the 2006 race for House Majority Leader

被引：9

作者：

Green, Matthew N. ^{[1
]}

Harris, Douglas B.

机构：

[1] Catholic Univ Amer, Washington, DC 20064 USA

[2] Loyola Coll, Baltimore, MD 21210 USA

来源：

POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY | 2007年 / 60卷 / 04期

关键词：

US Congress; US House of Representatives; congressional leadership; leadership elections; party leadership; Republican Party; leadership PAC;

D O I：

10.1177/1065912907307539

中图分类号：

D0 [政治学、政治理论];

学科分类号：

0302 ; 030201 ;

摘要：

In intraparty congressional leadership races, the characteristics of candidates and the nature of their campaigns increase the salience of particular legislator goals and, in doing so, influence legislators' support of particular leadership candidates. Using multinomial logit regression analysis, the authors test this "goal salience" theory to determine what factors predict individual legislators' commitments to candidates in the 2006 House Republican majority leader's race. Notably, among other factors, the level of campaign donations made to Republican House members had a positive and statistically significant relationship with the choice of specific candidates.

引用

页码：618 / 630

页数：13