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Who enters politics and why? basic human values in the UK Parliament.
Exploring unique survey and interview data on the personality characteristics of British politicians, this book provides a timely psychological analysis of those individuals who pursue political careers and how they represent their constituents once elected.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
POLITY PRESS,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Who Enters Politics and Why: Basic Human Values in the UK Parliamentthe
- Copyright information
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Note on the Author
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Why Do We Hate Politicians?
- Politicians and anti-politics: a human story?
- Political psychology and the 'value of values'
- Data and methods
- Survey data
- Interview data
- Overview of the book
- 2 Psychological Scrutiny: Who Enters Politics and Why?
- 'Only in it for themselves!' How do politicians differ from the British public?
- Dark intentions? Power values and in-role success
- Basic values and candidate emergence
- 3 All the Same! Demographic Homogeneity and Careerism
- Preferable descriptive representatives
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- Professional politicians and claims of 'careerism'
- 4 Basic Values and Partisanship
- Theories of partisanship
- Elite differences in basic values
- Ideology and basic values
- Leaders and followers
- Partisans of nobody: non-voters and basic values
- 5 Parliamentary Behaviour: Personal Choices, Political Results
- Away from traditional parliamentary studies
- Towards an integrated model of parliamentary political behaviour
- 'Ayes to the right': basic values and voting behaviour in the House of Commons
- Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill 2013
- UK air strikes against so-called Islamic State (Daesh) in Syria
- European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill 2017
- Outside the limelight: Early Day Motions (EDMs), written questions and select committee membership
- Early Day Motions (EDMs)
- Written parliamentary questions
- Select committee membership
- 6 Perfect Politicians? Voting Preferences in the United Kingdom
- Personalization and vote choice
- Conjoint experiment of voting preferences: design
- Conjoint experiment of voting preferences: analysis
- Basic values and voting: a perception gap?
- Final thoughts
- Notes
- Appendix A: Twenty Item Portrait Values Questionnaire (TwIVI)
- How much like you is this person?
- Appendix B: Confirmatory factor analysis of survey data on the basic values of politicians (UK Members of Parliament, N = 168)
- Appendix C: External correlations across samples
- Appendix D: Donjoint experiment of candidate preferences by partisanship
- References
- Index