what evidence can you find to illustrate the electoral connection?

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read the article provided and answer what evidence can you find to illustrate the electoral connection?

Please develop a 600 word (this is minimum word count; you can write more but not

less) response to the following question: what evidence can you find to illustrate

the electoral connection? Please make sure to illustrate how the desire to stay in

office (reelection) serves as a strong incentive for Congressional representatives to

establish strong connections with their constituents (Mayhew’s claim).

To answer this question, you must visit your U.S. Congressional representative’s

website and outline in detail all hints or evidence of an electoral connection between

you and your representative. In other words, you might want to think of it this way:

what does your representative do (or has done) to earn your vote?

HINT: Find out your congressional representative. Visit their website. Evaluate the

theory in light of what you find in the website. Then, write a short summary of how

that evidence aligns with Mayhew's Electoral Connection, which is the only required

reading for this week.

Please make sure you use the texts to support your answers, and please remember

to quote properly.

Writing guidelines

To help you answer this question, keep the following general guidelines in mind:

When I read any response, I look for a clear and coherent summary and analysis of

the assigned reading, and to address or answer the questions I posed in the prompt.

To this end, I use the following criteria to assess your answers:

Summary – of required readings, including key ideas, concepts, and questions to be

used as a foundation for the analysis. In your summary, you can demonstrate that

you read carefully and thoroughly.

Analysis – comparison and contrast of ideas, concepts, and questions between the

readings. This is where you can demonstrate your understanding of the material and

that you are thinking for yourself. Therefore, no external sources can be accepted for

the analysis because it must be based on your close reading of the required texts.

Coherence – this means organized, step-by-step, progression of ideas. In other

words, ideas should flow in orderly fashion from sentence to sentence and paragraph

to paragraph. Coherence is very important because it helps you to demonstrate that

you can develop a thesis or argument, and that you can impose order on your

thoughts – thus making your claims and arguments easy to follow for the reader.

Otherwise, good ideas or claims go to waste because they become disconnected or

fragmented and the reader gets lost.

Clarity – this refers to grammar, mechanics, and style, and command of writing

conventions such as in-text citations, quoting, balance between paraphrasing and

quoting, and so on. Poor sentences make it difficult to get your point across.

Format requirements –adhering to basic requirements, particularly on-time

submission, word count, and academic honesty.