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What are advantages of incumbency?
Some of the advantages an incumbent may have are franking privilege, staffers, patronage, name recognition, casework, and money (especially from PAC's)
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What are factors that contribute to the incumbency advantage?
Incumbency has better financed campaigns, for starters. But also, people feel like they are in good hands when they vote for an incumbency b/c that person has already dint this before so they have...
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How does incumbency advantage add up?
Incumbency has advantage in that the government in power has the resource of the state or nation in his custody and can use to maximum is in Constant touch with the people and will use that to win...
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Where is there a large incumbency advantage for congressman?
In every district. Incumbents, which are defined as any politician currently holding the office they are seeking re-election in, historically and statistically always hold an advantage over a...
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What is one consquence of incumbency advantage for US political process?
One consequence of the incumbency advantage is the fact that it reduces majoritarian democracy. Because there is a 90 percent or greater chance of incumbent re-election in congress, politicians that...