Book contents
- Opting Out of Congress
- Opting Out of Congress
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Choices Have Changed
- 2 Party Fit and the Calculus of Candidacy
- 3 Ideology, Attitudes, and Political Ambition
- 4 Ideological Moderates Won't Run for Congress
- 5 Where the Action Is
- 6 Ideological Moderates Won't Stay in Congress
- 7 The Growing Partisan Gap in Women's Representation
- 8 Toward a Less Polarized Congress?
- Book part
- References
- Index
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 May 2017
- Opting Out of Congress
- Opting Out of Congress
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Choices Have Changed
- 2 Party Fit and the Calculus of Candidacy
- 3 Ideology, Attitudes, and Political Ambition
- 4 Ideological Moderates Won't Run for Congress
- 5 Where the Action Is
- 6 Ideological Moderates Won't Stay in Congress
- 7 The Growing Partisan Gap in Women's Representation
- 8 Toward a Less Polarized Congress?
- Book part
- References
- Index
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- Opting Out of CongressPartisan Polarization and the Decline of Moderate Candidates, pp. 1 - 4Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017