Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 389-416).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2006. / Vita. Appendices: leaves 99-106. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-115).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas State University-San Marcos, 2006. / Vita. Appendices: leaves 99-106. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 107-115).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1994. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-159). Also available via the Internet.

While political scientists know much about roll call voting, we still have much to learn about the way perceptions of constituents, personal priorities, and other factors shape the way legislators prioritize their voting preferences. This research is qualitative and interpretive in nature, making use of elite interviews and supplemented with archival materials when possible. These data include six semi-structured interviews with members of the Illinois congressional delegation representing Southern Illinois. Service to constituents has continually been an indicator of how effective an elected official is within their home district, their decisions concerning who to listen to, and what they will allow to influence them also shape what is, arguably, the most important action they take on behalf of their constituents, i.e., vote on legislation. Despite different approaches to leading, the legislative needs of Southern Illinois are matters of great importance to the individuals interviewed in this research. The interviews also indicate that the passions outlined by the members of Congress are things that have a direct link to Southern Illinois.

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Thomas Swann (1805-1883), son of a prominent lawyer in the District of Columbia and educated at the University of Virginia, began his career in 1833 as the Secretary to the Neapolitan Claims Commission in Washington. His marriage to Elizabeth Gilmor Sherlock a year later marked his entrance into Baltimore society and into the affairs of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. After participating in the B & O's struggles with the Virginia legislature in the late 1840's, Swann became president of the railroad and supervised its extension from Cumberland, Maryland, to Wheeling, Virginia, on the Ohio River. Three years after leaving the B & O, Swann entered politics in 1856 as the Know-Nothing Mayor of Baltimore. From 1856 to 1860 he made numerous improvements, establishing the city's first public police department, fire department, streetcar system, and larger park. With the corning of the Civil War, Swann left the Know-Nothing Party and began a decade of numerous shifting political alliances, in which he was a bellweather in anticipating the wave of the future. In 1864 Swann won election as Governor of Maryland on the Unionist ticket. In 1867 the Maryland legislature elected him to the United States Senate, but he declined the honor knowing the Republican majority in that body would refuse to seat him because of his shift to the Conservative Alliance formed by non-Radical Unionists and Democrats. After a second unsuccessful attempt for the Senate, Swann was elected in 1868 to the House of Representatives as a Democrat in which body he served for ten years. He retired from politics in 1879 to his country estate, Morven Park, in Loudoun County, Virginia, where he died on July 24, 1883. / M.A.

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Univ., Diss.--Köln, 2006.