Congressional communication in the digital age - 20

Communication defines political representation. At the core of the representational relationship lies the interaction between principal and agent; the quality of this relationship is predicated upon the accessibility of effective channels of communication between the constituent and representative.

Over the past decade, congressional websites have become the primary way constituents communicate with their members and a prominent place for members to communicate with constituents.

Yet, as we move toward the third decade of the 21st century, little work has systematically analysed this forum as a distinct representational space.

In this book, Jocelyn Evans and Jessica Hayden offer a fresh, timely, and mixed-methods approach for understanding how the emergence of virtual offices has changed the representational relationship between constituents and members of Congress.