Competing Principals and Representation: Using Redistricting to Assess the Effects of Out-of-District Donors on Position Taking in the U.S. House of Representatives

• In Event: Redistricting and Gerrymandering

Brief Overview

I argue that members’ reelection fortunes are no longer dictated solely by their territorial constituency. Instead, members appeal to a donor constituency composed of out-of-district donors, the main financiers of congressional campaigns.

Author

• Sharif Amlani, University of California-Davis