Redistricting and the Office Holder Effect: Individual-Level Evidence on the Magnitude and Nature of the Personal Vote
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This paper provides estimates of the incumbency advantage arising from the personal vote by exploiting the redistricting of 2010 to 2012 and a unique large-sample panel study conducted as part of the Cooperative Congressional Election Study. Ansolabehere, Snyder, and Stewart (2000), among others, use redistricting to measure the electoral advantage of individual office holders by comparing the vote share received by incumbents in portions of their districts that they represented prior to redistricting with the vote share received in portions of their districts that they did
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