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Personal Roots of Representation / Barry C. Burden.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2007Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) : 10 line illus. 19 tablesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691127446
  • 9781400866939
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 328.73
LOC classification:
  • JK1021 -- B85 2007eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Personal Roots of Representation -- CHAPTER TWO. A Theory of Legislative Preferences -- CHAPTER THREE. Smoking and Tobacco Regulation -- CHAPTER FOUR. Vouchers and School Choice -- CHAPTER FIVE. Religion and Morality -- CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion -- References -- Index
Summary: Despite heightened partisanship in the U.S. Congress and constituencies split along ideological lines, congressional representatives frequently buck their parties and seldom do precisely what voters ask. In Personal Roots of Representation, Barry Burden challenges standard explanations of legislative preferences to emphasize the important role that personal influences play in representatives' voting behavior. This timely book is the first to examine the extent to which the very same values, experiences, and interests that shape congressional members as individuals and guide their own life choices similarly shape their policymaking decisions. Burden takes a close look at legislative decision making in the areas of tobacco regulation, vouchers and school choice, and religion and bioethics. He finds that personal factors become more significant when legislators are acting proactively rather than reactively, grappling with specific policy issues, and defending rather than challenging the status quo. Marshaling both qualitative and quantitative evidence, Burden reveals that the personal roots of representatives' actions can be as influential as the usual suspects of partisanship and constituency--and that personal factors quite often have the greatest impact when the policymaking stakes are at their highest. Personal Roots of Representation is a provocative book that raises pressing new questions about legislative discretion and the accountability of our elected officials.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE. Personal Roots of Representation -- CHAPTER TWO. A Theory of Legislative Preferences -- CHAPTER THREE. Smoking and Tobacco Regulation -- CHAPTER FOUR. Vouchers and School Choice -- CHAPTER FIVE. Religion and Morality -- CHAPTER SIX. Conclusion -- References -- Index

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Despite heightened partisanship in the U.S. Congress and constituencies split along ideological lines, congressional representatives frequently buck their parties and seldom do precisely what voters ask. In Personal Roots of Representation, Barry Burden challenges standard explanations of legislative preferences to emphasize the important role that personal influences play in representatives' voting behavior. This timely book is the first to examine the extent to which the very same values, experiences, and interests that shape congressional members as individuals and guide their own life choices similarly shape their policymaking decisions. Burden takes a close look at legislative decision making in the areas of tobacco regulation, vouchers and school choice, and religion and bioethics. He finds that personal factors become more significant when legislators are acting proactively rather than reactively, grappling with specific policy issues, and defending rather than challenging the status quo. Marshaling both qualitative and quantitative evidence, Burden reveals that the personal roots of representatives' actions can be as influential as the usual suspects of partisanship and constituency--and that personal factors quite often have the greatest impact when the policymaking stakes are at their highest. Personal Roots of Representation is a provocative book that raises pressing new questions about legislative discretion and the accountability of our elected officials.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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