incumbency

(noun)

the state of holding an office or title

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Examples of incumbency in the following topics:

  • The Power of Incumbency

    • The incumbent is the existing holder of a political office.
    • It is usually used in reference to elections where races can often be defined as being between an incumbent and non-incumbents.
    • However, there exist scenarios in which the incumbency factor itself leads to the downfall of the incumbent.
    • There are situations in which the incumbency factor leads to the downfall of the incumbent.
    • This is known as the anti-incumbency factor.

  • Candidates for Congressional Elections

    • On the other hand, there is a historical pattern that the incumbent president's party loses seats in elections that are held in the middle of a presidential term.
    • As the redistricting commissions of states are often partisan, districts are often drawn which benefit incumbent .
    • An increasing trend has been for incumbents to have an overwhelming advantage in House elections, and since the 1994 election, an unusually low number of seats has changed hands in each election.
    • The majority of vulnerable seats are held by Republican incumbents, many of whom are freshmen who were swept into office in the Republican wave of 2010.
    • Additionally, Democrats only have 10 seats to defend in 2016, while 24 Republican incumbents are up for re-election.

  • The Election of 2004

    • In the 2004 presidential election, incumbent President George W.
    • Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W.
    • Kerry's record of support for the invasion of Iraq, however, made his criticism of the incumbent less compelling and earned him the byname “Waffler” from Republicans.
    • This combination compromised the impact of his challenge to the incumbent in a time of war.

  • Entry Barriers

    • Because barriers to entry protect incumbent firms and restrict competition in a market, they can contribute to distortionary prices.
    • The most important barriers are economies of scale, patents, access to expensive and complex technology, and strategic actions by incumbent firms designed to discourage or destroy new entrants.

  • Where a Dollar Spent on Health Care Goes: Introducing the Inputs to Health Care

    • Health care has many inputs and a variety of incumbents, namely insurance providers, administrators, governments, and pharmaceuticals.
    • With these group of incumbents in mind, it becomes quite clear why the costs are rising exponentially and are so unsustainable.
    • This graph illustrates the danger of continuing down path of using the excessively high cost-structure U.S. health care incumbents have dictated in the context of spending as a % of GDP.

  • The Election of 1828 and the Character Issue

    • The United States presidential election of 1828 featured a rematch between John Quincy Adams, the incumbent president, and Andrew Jackson, the runner-up in the 1824 election.
    • Jackson accepted the incumbent vice president, John C.
    • The National Republican party nomination was John Quincy Adams (of Massachusetts), the incumbent President of the United States.
    • As in 1800, when Jefferson had won over the Federalist incumbent John Adams, the presidency passed to a new political party, the Democrats.

  • The Election of 1976

    • Democrat Jimmy Carter defeated incumbent President Ford in a narrow victory in the 1976 presidential election.
    • It favored the relatively unknown former Democratic governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, against the incumbent Republican President Ford.
    • The contest for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 1976 was between two serious candidates: Gerald Ford, incumbent president and leader of the GOP's moderate wing, and Ronald Reagan, the leader of the GOP's conservative wing and the former two-term governor of California.
    • Ford defeated Reagan by a narrow margin and chose Senator Robert Dole of Kansas as his running mate, in place of incumbent Vice President Nelson Rockefeller.

  • The Election of 1932

    • The Great Depression and thus the economy was the dominant issue during the presidential election of 1932 between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and incumbent Herbert Hoover.
    • With unemployment rate at nearly 24%, heavy industries barely functioning, and dramatically low prices of farm products, Herbert Hoover, the incumbent Republican president, faced unprecedented challenges.
    • Many prominent Republicans vehemently opposed him while others simply refused to support the incumbent.
    • The incumbent president was so unpopular that at times, voters threw objects at him when he was campaigning in public.

  • Political Advertisements

    • The growth of cable television networks heavily influenced political advertising in the 1992 election between incumbent President George H.
    • Web-based advertising was easily distributed by both incumbent President George W.

  • Subsidies and Income Supports

    • An agricultural subsidy is a government grant paid to incumbents in the industry to reduce costs and influence the supply of commodities.