ingest cdrApp 2018-08-23T17:14:39.568Z d39a25df-af15-48e9-aec2-c9af81a997a2 modifyDatastreamByValue RELS-EXT fedoraAdmin 2018-08-23T17:15:29.493Z Setting exclusive relation addDatastream MD_TECHNICAL fedoraAdmin 2018-08-23T17:15:40.699Z Adding technical metadata derived by FITS addDatastream MD_FULL_TEXT fedoraAdmin 2018-08-23T17:16:03.000Z Adding full text metadata extracted by Apache Tika modifyDatastreamByValue RELS-EXT fedoraAdmin 2018-08-23T17:16:24.958Z Setting exclusive relation modifyDatastreamByValue MD_DESCRIPTIVE cdrApp 2018-09-27T18:32:26.074Z modifyDatastreamByValue MD_DESCRIPTIVE cdrApp 2019-03-21T19:41:16.131Z Tyler Steelman Author Department of Political Science College of Arts and Sciences The Ties That Bind: Surrogate Representation in the United States House of Representatives In a 2015 interview with the Minnesota Post, U.S. House member Keith Ellison made the startling comment that he “. . . didn’t run for Congress to talk about my religion all the time. . . ”; instead he ran “. . . to increase the minimum wage, strengthen the right to bargain collectively, to do something about climate change, to help students afford college.” What is being described is surrogate representation—an often understudied phenomenon in theories of American representation—which is the link between a legislator and citizen where no formal electoral, and territorial, connection exists. Using an original method to identify the location of donors to members of the United States House of Representatives in 2016 I demonstrate the surrogate legislators have a higher percentage of their constituencies originating from outside their geographic district. This process is facilitated by speciail interested organizations, like EMILY’s List which can increase a surrogate legislator’s out-of-district constitueny even further. Surrogate legislators are attracting the attention of citizens across political boundaries and are seeing significant increases to the percentage of their campaign contributions that are coming from outside their congressional district, as a result. In effect, these legislators are redefining their constituencies to include both in-district and out-of-district citizens. Spring 2018 2018 Political science Donations, EMILY's List, GIS, House of Representatives, Representation, Surrogate eng Master of Arts Thesis University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution Political Science Pamela Conover Thesis advisor Sarah Treul Thesis advisor Timothy Ryan Thesis advisor text Tyler Steelman Creator Department of Political Science College of Arts and Sciences The Ties That Bind: Surrogate Representation in the United States House of Representatives In a 2015 interview with the Minnesota Post, U.S. House member Keith Ellison made the startling comment that he “. . . didn’t run for Congress to talk about my religion all the time. . . ”; instead he ran “. . . to increase the minimum wage, strengthen the right to bargain collectively, to do something about climate change, to help students afford college.” What is being described is surrogate representation—an often understudied phenomenon in theories of American representation—which is the link between a legislator and citizen where no formal electoral, and territorial, connection exists. Using an original method to identify the location of donors to members of the United States House of Representatives in 2016 I demonstrate the surrogate legislators have a higher percentage of their constituencies originating from outside their geographic district. This process is facilitated by speciail interested organizations, like EMILY’s List which can increase a surrogate legislator’s out-of-district constitueny even further. Surrogate legislators are attracting the attention of citizens across political boundaries and are seeing significant increases to the percentage of their campaign contributions that are coming from outside their congressional district, as a result. In effect, these legislators are redefining their constituencies to include both in-district and out-of-district citizens. Political science Donations; EMILY's List; GIS; House of Representatives; Representation; Surrogate Master of Arts Masters Thesis University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution Political Science Pamela Conover Thesis advisor Sarah Treul Thesis advisor Timothy Ryan Thesis advisor 2018 2018-05 eng text Tyler Steelman Creator Department of Political Science College of Arts and Sciences In a 2015 interview with the Minnesota Post, U.S. House member Keith Ellison made the startling comment that he “. . . didn’t run for Congress to talk about my religion all the time. . . ”; instead he ran “. . . to increase the minimum wage, strengthen the right to bargain collectively, to do something about climate change, to help students afford college.” What is being described is surrogate representation—an often understudied phenomenon in theories of American representation—which is the link between a legislator and citizen where no formal electoral, and territorial, connection exists. Using an original method to identify the location of donors to members of the United States House of Representatives in 2016 I demonstrate the surrogate legislators have a higher percentage of their constituencies originating from outside their geographic district. This process is facilitated by speciail interested organizations, like EMILY’s List which can increase a surrogate legislator’s out-of-district constitueny even further. Surrogate legislators are attracting the attention of citizens across political boundaries and are seeing significant increases to the percentage of their campaign contributions that are coming from outside their congressional district, as a result. In effect, these legislators are redefining their constituencies to include both in-district and out-of-district citizens. Political science Donations; EMILY's List; GIS; House of Representatives; Representation; Surrogate Master of Arts Masters Thesis University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School Degree granting institution Pamela Conover Thesis advisor Sarah Treul Thesis advisor Timothy Ryan Thesis advisor 2018 2018-05 eng text Steelman_unc_0153M_17956.pdf uuid:30371bf9-d1f0-4291-896f-2adeb421a7ee 2020-08-23T00:00:00 2018-06-15T16:30:32Z proquest application/pdf 428768