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text Sulkin, Tracy Sulkin, Tracy Mondak, Jeff Rudolph, Thomas Sin, Gisela Perez, Eristeo Jacob 2021-09-17T02:34:26Z 2021-09-17T02:34:26Z 2023-09-17T02:34:57Z 2021-04-15 2021-05 My dissertation builds on the previous scholarship of congressional campaigns with a longitudinal examination of how the tone and content of televised advertisements in congressional campaigns unfold across the careers of members of Congress. In their use of negative, partisan, and policy rhetoric in their ad airings - I find longitudinal patterns of continuity and change which are both motivated by their pursuit of reelection and their limited ability to learn about the effectiveness of their campaign strategies. From my longitudinal analysis, I reveal novel insights about how past experiences contextualize how MCs respond to their present circumstances. Incumbents do not view each election in total isolation from their previous campaigns. Instead, they often view their current race as an extension of their previous race. In turn, a stable electoral environment across successive elections often results in consistent campaign behavior across successive elections. Conversely, a changing electoral environment often begets changes in campaign behavior across consecutive races. Furthermore, the stability of their electoral environment conditions the extent to which MCs are sensitive to their challenger’s campaign rhetoric. MCs in newly competitive races are most sensitive to their challenger’s rhetoric, while MCs in consistently safe races are the least sensitive to their challenger’s campaigns. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2023-05-01 The student, Eristeo Perez, accepted the attached license on 2021-04-14 at 14:50. The student, Eristeo Perez, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-04-14 at 14:57. This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-04-15 at 16:42. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16331 on 2021-09-16 at 17:03:05 Made available in DSpace on 2021-09-17T02:34:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 PEREZ-DISSERTATION-2021.pdf: 1423800 bytes, checksum: fe34d479ff4e70f561327407f7b06c3e (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: 03f90cc449880891ec57e4db8bc9d5c5 (MD5) PROQUEST_LICENSE.txt: 4556 bytes, checksum: 230776a4fe3f500da0fa349561c6bb11 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2021-04-15 Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 118511 Lift date: 2023-09-17T02:34:57Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/110668 en Copyright 2021 Eristeo Perez Campaigns congressional campaigns elections American politics Continuity and change in congressional campaigns Thesis Political Science Political Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D.