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by David T. Canon

Author: David T. Canon
Subcategory: Social Sciences
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press; 1 edition (December 27, 1990)
Pages: 196 pages
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David T. Canon is assistant professor of political science at Duke University. Series: American Politics and Political Economy Series. Paperback: 196 pages.

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Actors, Athletes, and Astronauts : Political Amateurs in the United States Congress. The effect of amateurs' inexperience on their political careers, roles in Congress, and impact on the political system has never been analyzed in detail.

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This site is part of RePEc and all the data displayed here is part of the RePEc data set. Canon is professor and department chair of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Actors, Athletes, and Astronauts: Political Amateurs in the United States Congress; Race, Redistricting, and Representation: The Unintended Consequences of Black Majority Districts (winner of the Richard F. Fenno Prize); The Dysfunctional Congress? (with Kenneth Mayer); and various articles and book chapters.

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Journal of Political Economy 96 (1988): 132-163. Politics or Principle? Filibustering in the United States Senate. Canon, David T. Actors, Athletes, and Astronauts: Political Amateurs in the United States Congress. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1990.

Journal of Political Economy 96 (1988): 132-163. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996. Canon is a professor of political science at the University of. .PS 481 Honors Seminar on Race and Politics in the United States Spring 2018-2019

David T. Canon is a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. from the University of Minnesota in 1987 and previously taught at Duke University. American Political Development, Congressional Committees, Congress, Election Administration, Elections, Political Careers, Political Institutions, Race, Redistricting, Representation. Biography: David T. PS 481 Honors Seminar on Race and Politics in the United States Spring 2018-2019. PS 104 Introduction to American Politics and Government Spring 2018-2019.

The U.S. Congress is typically seen as an institution filled with career politicians who have been seasoned by experience in lower levels of political office. In fact, political amateurs have comprised roughly one quarter of the House of Representatives since 1930. The effect of amateurs' inexperience on their political careers, roles in Congress, and impact on the political system has never been analyzed in detail. Written in a lucid style accessible to the nonspecialist, David T. Canon's Actors, Athletes, and Astronauts is a definitive study of political amateurs in elections and in Congress. Canon examines the political conditions that prompt amateurs to run for office, why they win or lose, and whether elected amateurs behave differently from their experienced counterparts. Challenging previous work which presumed stable career structures and progressively ambitious candidates, his study reveals that amateurs are disproportionately elected in periods of high political opportunity, such as the 1930s for Democrats and 1980s for Republicans. Canon's detailed findings call for significant revision of our prevailing understanding of ambition theory and disarm monolithic interpretations of political amateurs. His unique typology of amateurism differentiates among policy-oriented, "hopeless," or ambitious amateurs. The latter resemble their professional counterparts; "hopeless" amateurs are swept into office by strong partisan motivations and decision-making styles of each type vary, affecting their degree of success, but each type of amateur provides a necessary electoral balance by defeating entrenched incumbents rarely challenged by more experienced politicians.