UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS
Classroom Resources
Title: Capitol Investments
Author: Glenn R. Parker
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-472-07037-4
Online at: http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=323198
Book Info:
Capitol Investments offers a sophisticated yet accessible analysis of the acquisition and
marketability of political skills. It suggests that an awareness of the trade in human
capital shapes an officeholder's actions as much as the desire to win another election.
CLASSROOM DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
1. How do special interests influence congressional politics?
2. What are the political skills legislators acquire, how do they acquire them, and what
are the effects?
3. What are the pay-offs to training in congressional politics?