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vanishing marginals: a standalone construct

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Electoral studies

the decline in the number of competitive legislative districts as incumbents win by ever larger margins.

In electoral studies, vanishing marginals refers to the decline in the number of competitive legislative districts as incumbents win by ever larger margins. This meaning comes from Mayhew (1974) in Polity.[1]

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  1. Mayhew, D. R. (1974). Congressional Elections: The Case of the Vanishing Marginals. Polity, 6(3), 295-317. https://doi.org/10.2307/3233931

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