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  • 3 - Member Reputation

  • Katrina F. McNally, Eckerd College, Florida
  • Book:
    Representing the Disadvantaged
    Published online:
    18 November 2021
    Print publication:
    25 November 2021, pp 36-74
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    Chapter 3 examines the critical role that legislative reputations play in the ways that groups are represented in Congress. It makes a case for legislative reputation as one of the primary conduits of representation, and offers a clear definition and operationalization for what legislative reputations are, as well as what they are not. It presents a novel measurement for legislative reputation by utilizing the member profiles found in the well-regarded Politics in America collection and explores the frequency with which members choose to develop reputations as disadvantaged-group advocates. This showcases the variation in the primacy of each disadvantaged group to a member’s reputation, as well as the partisan and institutional differences in the types of reputations members form.