The Candidate Emergence StudyWelcome to the homepage for the
Candidate Emergence Study. The Candidate
Emergence Study is a multi-year project seeking to understand how
potential
candidates for the United States House of Representatives decide whether
or
not to seek a seat in Congress. The goals of the study include increasing
our understanding of the electoral process and exploring some of the
reasons why so few congressional elections are competitively contested.
Our methodology involves two extensive surveys. The first was sent to a
variety of politically informed citizens in a randomly selected sample of
congressional districts. The second was to a group of individuals
identified as potential candidates for Congress either by the respondents
to the first survey or because of elected positions they hold within the
sample of congressional districts. Our research has been funded by the
National Science Foundation and the University of Colorado and Colby
College; none of the funding organizations bears any responsibility for
the
analysis or interpretations we present. Below you will find information
about the principal investigators for this project and electronic copies
of
papers that represent some of our preliminary findings.
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