| Personal Roots of Representation Subjects: United States. Congress; Legislators -- United States -- Attitudes; Representative government and representation -- United States; Despite heightened partisanship in the U.S. Congress and constituencies split along ideological lines, congressional representatives frequently buck their parties and seldom do precisely what voters ask. In Personal Roots of Representation , Barry Burden challenges standard explanations of legislative preferences to emphasize the important role that personal influences play in representatives' voting behavior. Barry C. Burden is professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the coauthor of Why Americans Split Their Tickets and the editor of Uncertainty in American Politics . |