Capitol Investments: The Marketability of Political Skills

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Tables 1.1. Mean Salaries for Former Legislators’ Precongressional Vocations 6 1.2. “Was There Anything in Particular That Made You Think about What You Would Do when You Left Congress?” 9 3.1. Years of Tenure among Former Members of Congress 49 3.2. Reasons for Leaving Congress 50 3.3. Description of Variables 52 4.1. Types of Committees Offering General on-the-Job Training 79 4.2. Types of Committees Offering Speci‹c on-the-Job Training 79 4.3. Committee Targets of Interest Group Money in the House of Representatives 80 4.4. The Signi‹cance of Elements of Human Capital in Acquiring Postelective Employment 81 4.5. Factors Important in Obtaining First Job after Leaving Congress 82 4.6. Explaining Investments in on-the-Job Training 84 4.7. Breadth of Skills Acquired through Congressional Service 87 4.8. Factor Analysis of Breadth of Skill Set Items 88 4.9. Explaining the Breadth of Skills Acquired through Congressional Service 89 5.1. Vocations of Former Legislators from Precongressional Occupation to Current Job 97 5.2. Movement between Precongressional Vocation and First Job after Leaving Congress by Former Legislators 98 5.3. Movement between Precongressional Vocation and Second Job after Leaving Congress by Former Legislators 99 5.4. Movement between Precongressional Vocation and Third Job after Leaving Congress by Former Legislators 99 5.5. Movement between First and Second Jobs after Leaving Congress by Former Legislators 102 5.6. Movement between Second and Third Jobs after Leaving Congress by Former Legislators 104 5.7. Movement between First and Third Jobs after Leaving Congress by Former Legislators 104 5.8. Movement between First Job after Leaving Congress and Current Job by Former Legislators 107 5.9. Mean Number of Months Spent in Postelective Occupations among Legislators Who Switched Vocations 109 5.10. Human Capital and Decisions to Switch Vocations 111 5.11. Human Capital and Decisions to Become Lobbyists 115 5.12. Generational Growth in Lobbying as First Job after Leaving Congress 116 6.1. Mean Salaries for First Job after Leaving Congress, by Occupation 126 6.2. Pre- and Postcongressional Salary Differences by Entering and Exiting Occupation 127 6.3. Explaining Legislators’ Postelective Salaries 137 6.4. Explaining PAC Subsidies of Legislators’ Campaign Costs 156 7.1. Summary of Findings: Human Capital Factors 162 TABLES xii • ...