Author Meets Critics: Accountability in State Legislatures

Session Submission Type: Roundtable

Brief Overview

A critical discussion “Accountability in State Legislatures” by Steven Rogers, which makes the claim that elections do little to hold state legislators accountable and are dominated by national politics, posing problems for democratic accountability.

Section

• 20. State & Intergovernmental Politics

Cosponsor

• 01. Program Chairs

Chair

• Shannon Jenkins, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Participants

• Steven Rogers, Saint Louis University

• Danielle Thomsen, University of California-Irvine

• Adam Michael Dynes, Brigham Young University-Provo

• Cassidy S Reller, University of Florida