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Capitol investments : the marketability of political skills / Glenn R. Parker.
LIBRA JK1021 .P364 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parker, Glenn R., 1946-
- Series:
- Economics, cognition, and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Legislators--United States.
- Legislators.
- Human capital.
- Lobbyists.
- United States.
- Politicians--United States.
- Politicians.
- Lobbyists--United States.
- Occupational training--United States.
- Occupational training.
- Career development--United States.
- Career development.
- Human capital--Political aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Politicians, institutions, and human capital; or, Becker goes to Washington
- Methodology : data and variables
- Congress as workplace : the production of marketable human capital
- Returns to specialized training : career mobility and grooming lobbyists
- Returns to general training : competitive wages
- but at a price
- Summary of findings and implications.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-191) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9780472070374
- 0472070371
- 9780472050376
- 0472050370
- OCLC:
- 179794161
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