Personal roots of representation
By: Barry C. Burden.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780691127446; 9780691134598
Subjects: United States. -- Congress; Legislators -- United States -- Attitudes; Representative government and representation -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Personal roots of representation; title: A theory of legislative preferences; title: Smoking and tobacco regulation; title: Vouchers and school choice; title: Religion and morality; title: Conclusion; title: References; title: List of figures and tables; title: Figures; title: 2.1. Representation in the 106th House of Representatives; title: 2.2. A model of legislative behavior; title: 3.1. Cigarette consumption per capita (1965-1998); title: 3.2. Smoking prevalence among U.S. adults (1965-2001); title: 3.3. Smokefree action scores of smokers and nonsmokers (104th House); title: 4.1. Federal spending on education (1947-2001); title: 4.2. Number of states with charter school laws (1989-2003); title: 4.3. Number of charter schools (1995-2005); title: 4.4. NEA scores of public and private school parents (1999); title: 5.1. Adherence to major religious groupings (1960-2004); title: Tables; title: 3.1. Collective and dyadic representation of smokers; title: 3.2. Tobacco bill roll call votes; title: 3.3. tobacco bill cosponsorship by position; title: 3.4. tobacco bill cosponsorship by position and party; title: 3.5. Tobacco floor speeches; title: 3.6. Tobacco floor speeches by party; title: 3.7. Explaining tobacco PAC contributions to House incumbents; title: 4.2. NEA scale votes; title: 4.3. Partisanship, school choice, and NEA scale votes; title: 4.4. Armey amendment votes; title: 4.5. Explaining NEA and AFT PAC contributions to House incumbents; title: 5.1. Collective and dyadic representation of religious denominations; title: 5.2. Cosponsorship of RFRA by party and religious family; title: 5.3. Cosponsoring the Religious Freedom Restoration Act; title: 5.4. Speaking about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act; title: 5.5. Determinants of charitable choice vote; title: 5.6. Determinants of charitable choice sponsorship; title: 5.7. Vote on Human Cloning Prohibition Act; title: 5.8. Vote on Human Cloning Prohibition Act by party.