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Because resources for helping non-constituents are limited, an additional component of constituent service becomes directing citizens to their assigned representative in Congress. [ 53 ] An incumbent member of Congress has considerably more clout than most official ombudsmen at the state level, and in other countries, given the appointive and ...
Representatives are held accountable if citizens can judge whether the representative is acting in their best interest and sanction the representative accordingly. [3] The descriptive and symbolic views of political representation describe the ways in which political representatives "stand for" the people they represent. [2]
These members of Congress have little opportunity to shape the legislative process, and therefore rely on alternative mechanisms, such as one-minute speeches to represent their constituents. On February 7, 2018, Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) delivered the then-longest one-minute speech since at least 1909, speaking for eight hours and ...
Accountability is important as an elected official, Noblesville Mayor Chris Jensen writes. He thinks the federal government should heed his advice. Jensen: Being an elected official means being ...
The amendment supersedes Article I, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the Constitution, under which senators were elected by state legislatures. It also alters the procedure for filling vacancies in the Senate, allowing for state legislatures to permit their governors to make temporary appointments until a special election can be held.
The Roman model of governance would inspire many political thinkers over the centuries, [9] and today's modern representative democracies imitate more the Roman than the Greek model, because it was a state in which supreme power was held by the people and their elected representatives, and which had an elected or nominated leader. [10]
One of the biggest divides and least-discussed divides in American politics is between what the elected officials believe and what their own voters believe.
Accountability occurs when citizens only vote to re-elect representatives who act in their interests, and if representatives then select policies that will help them be re-elected. [14] "Governments are 'accountable' if voters can discern whether governments are acting in their interest and sanction them appropriately, so that those incumbents ...