By Matthew Dabros
Citizens, newshounds, and watchdog businesses declare that U.S. Congress participants serve particular curiosity teams in go back for profitable jobs in when they depart office—and that those legislators develop into lax of their ultimate time period of place of work as they're not forced by means of elections to supply caliber illustration to voters. This booklet investigates the veracity of those claims.
• deals a well timed and fact-based standpoint at the courting among legislators and distinct curiosity companies, one during which exact pursuits constrain—not exploit—lawmakers' opportunistic proclivities
• records how the terror of reduced post-office employment possibilities compels legislators to provide caliber illustration instead of succumb to opportunism within the ultimate time period of officeholding and within the absence of electoral constraints
• finds that post-Congressional careers entail greater than simply lobbying via an updated accounting of the profession judgements of virtually each senator and consultant who left place of work among 2001 and 2011
• Investigates and identifies the key elements that suggested legislators to stay in public carrier, absorb a occupation in lobbying or in different places within the inner most zone, or retire from paintings altogether
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