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Elections, Partisanship and the Institutionalization of the Tennessee General Assembly
Author(s) -
Williams Steven D.,
McGinnis H. Coleman
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
southeastern political review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-1346
pISSN - 0730-2177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1747-1346.1999.tb00530.x
Subject(s) - redistricting , institutionalisation , competition (biology) , political science , institution , state (computer science) , public administration , political economy , law , sociology , politics , ecology , algorithm , computer science , biology
For the past half‐century most scholarly attention has focused on the advent of two‐party competition in the South. More recently scholars have examined the impact of redistricting and incumbency on the advancement of two‐party competition. This redistricting and incumbency is producing a unique result in the Tennessee State Assembly. The Tennessee House has become a strongly partisan body ruled by Democrats, while the state Senate has become a bipartisan institution ruled by incumbents.