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How do politicians decide whether or not to run for Congress? Using extensive interviews and analyses of district data and opinion polls from New York's 30th Congressional District during the elections of 1984 and 1986, Linda Fowler and Robert McClure assess the personal and contextual factors that motivate some individuals to enter a House race and induce others to remain on the sidelines. They discuss, for example, the cost and complexity of competitive House races, the recruitment of female legislators, and the changes in American politics such as reapportionment, the redistribution of power away from Washington, and the transformation of parties and interest groups. "Their book is a splendid reminder that politics is really the most human of endeavors, and nothing is more central to its human dimension than plain old ambition."-David S. Broder, Washington Post
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'A landmark book in the analysis of political recruitment. Fowler and McClure unravel one of the great unsolved mysteries of democratic politics: why some politicians choose to run for higher office while others choose not to do so-and what difference their decisions make for the rest of us. Their study belongs on everyone's basic reading list in American Politics.' -Richard F. Fenno, Jr., University of Rochester
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- PublisherYale University Press
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0300044054
- ISBN 13 9780300044058
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages264
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