Ansolabehere, Stephen; Hirano, Shigeo; Snyder, James M.; … - In: Quarterly Journal of Political Science 1 (2006) 2, pp. 119-137
A possible explanation for the rise of the incumbency advantage in U.S. elections asserts that party and incumbency are close informational substitutes. A common claim in the literature is that, as the salience of partisan cues decreased, voters attached themselves to the next available piece of...