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fIgures and taBles FIGURES Figure I.1. Political Systems Model 7 Figure 1.1. Events in Capitol Security 35 Figure 2.1. Years in Congress of House Staff 72 Figure 2.2. Years in Congress of Senate Staff 72 Figure 3.1. Mail Flow in Florida, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, D.C. 83 Figure 3.2. Preferred Mode of Contact for Members of Congress 100 Figure 3.3. Members’ Preferred Mode of Contact Considering Electoral Safety and Year of Entry 105 Figure 5.1. Diagram of the Advocacy Coalition Framework 143 Figure 5.2. Organizational Chart Tracking Supervision of CVC 159 TABLES Table I.1. Three Lenses and the Theoretical Framework 16 Table 1.1. Changes in Capitol Security since 2001 43 Table 3.1. Timeline of Anthrax Attacks on Capitol Hill 85 Table 3.2. Cross-Tabulating Preferred Mode of Contact and Electoral Safety 101 Table 3.3. Cross-Tabulating Preferred Mode of Contact and Entry 102 Table 3.4. Cross-Tabulating Preferred Mode of Contact Considering Both Electoral Safety and Entry 104 Table 4.1. Per Capita Distribution of State Homeland Security Grant Program Funds across Selected States: FY2003–FY2006 124 Table 4.2. Urban Area Security Initiative Grant Allocation to Florida Urban Centers: FY2003–FY2006 125 Figures and Tables vii Table 4.3. Membership during the Senate Committee Transition from Governmental Affairs to Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs: 108th Congress–111th Congress 126 Table 4.4. Organization and Function of Department of Homeland Security 129 Table 4.5. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Jurisdiction 132 Table 4.6. House Homeland Security Committee Jurisdiction 133 Table 5.1. Competing Crisis Management Perspectives 147 Table 6.1. Social Meanings of Structural and Procedural Changes 180 ...

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