State Legislator Job Duties: A Data-Driven Learning Guide

Principal Investigator(s): Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

Summary: Data-Driven Learning Guides are a collection of instructional exercises that can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. This learning guide investigates how state legislators do their job and the constraints they face in doing their job effectively while focusing on re-election. Research questions that can be explored using this learning guide include: whether most state legislators plan to run for re-election, which political party is more responsive to constituent... (more info)

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Summary:   Data-Driven Learning Guides are a collection of instructional exercises that can be used to enhance teaching of core concepts in the social sciences. This learning guide investigates how state legislators do their job and the constraints they face in doing their job effectively while focusing on re-election. Research questions that can be explored using this learning guide include: whether most state legislators plan to run for re-election, which political party is more responsive to constituent needs, which political party spends more time campaigning and fundraising, and whether re-election campaigning and fundraising take away from job performance.

Subject Terms:   fundraising, instructional materials, job performance, political campaigns, political parties, reelection, social sciences, state legislators

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Data Collection Notes:

Other Data-Driven Learning Guides covering such topics as aging, gender, race, social class, politics, and health are available on ICPSR's Online Learning Center .