Incumbency Advantage and Tenure Length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1989-2009

This article explores incumbency advantage and tenure length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies between 1989 and 2009. After describing how the electoral system frames electoral competition, we present descriptive data of incumbency advantage and tenure length. There is remarkable stability in both...

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Autores principales: BUNKER,KENNETH, NAVIA,PATRICIO
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Publicado: Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política 2015
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spelling oai:scielo:S0718-090X20150002000012016-01-21Incumbency Advantage and Tenure Length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1989-2009BUNKER,KENNETHNAVIA,PATRICIO Incumbency advantage tenure length legislative elections chilean Congress This article explores incumbency advantage and tenure length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies between 1989 and 2009. After describing how the electoral system frames electoral competition, we present descriptive data of incumbency advantage and tenure length. There is remarkable stability in both indicators. Three out of four incumbents seek re-election, 82.3% get re-elected. Still, every four years, first-termers comprise 38.5% of the 120-member Chamber. The average tenure length is 2.4 terms. We find a neutral effect of past electoral performance and number of terms in office on the decision to seek re-election and be reelected. However, the results become significant when we control for the incumbent legislators coalition.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia PolíticaRevista de ciencia política (Santiago) v.35 n.2 20152015-09-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-090X2015000200001en10.4067/S0718-090X2015000200001
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topic Incumbency advantage
tenure length
legislative elections
chilean Congress
spellingShingle Incumbency advantage
tenure length
legislative elections
chilean Congress
BUNKER,KENNETH
NAVIA,PATRICIO
Incumbency Advantage and Tenure Length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1989-2009
description This article explores incumbency advantage and tenure length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies between 1989 and 2009. After describing how the electoral system frames electoral competition, we present descriptive data of incumbency advantage and tenure length. There is remarkable stability in both indicators. Three out of four incumbents seek re-election, 82.3% get re-elected. Still, every four years, first-termers comprise 38.5% of the 120-member Chamber. The average tenure length is 2.4 terms. We find a neutral effect of past electoral performance and number of terms in office on the decision to seek re-election and be reelected. However, the results become significant when we control for the incumbent legislators coalition.
author BUNKER,KENNETH
NAVIA,PATRICIO
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NAVIA,PATRICIO
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title Incumbency Advantage and Tenure Length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1989-2009
title_short Incumbency Advantage and Tenure Length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1989-2009
title_full Incumbency Advantage and Tenure Length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1989-2009
title_fullStr Incumbency Advantage and Tenure Length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1989-2009
title_full_unstemmed Incumbency Advantage and Tenure Length in the Chilean Chamber of Deputies, 1989-2009
title_sort incumbency advantage and tenure length in the chilean chamber of deputies, 1989-2009
publisher Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Instituto de Ciencia Política
publishDate 2015
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