Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Figures and Tables vi
4. Note on the Author viii
5. Acknowledgements ix
6. Why Do We Hate Politicians? 1
7. Psychological Scrutiny: Who Enters Politics and Why? 25
8. All the Same! Demographic Homogeneity and Careerism 53
9. Basic Values and Partisanship 79
10. Parliamentary Behaviour: Personal Choices, Political Results 107
11. Perfect Politicians? Voting Preferences in the United Kingdom 145
12. Notes 167
13. Twenty Item Portrait Values Questionnaire (TwIVI) 173
14. Confirmatory factor analysis of survey data on the basic values of politicians (UK Members of Parliament, N = 168) 175
15. External correlations across samples 177
16. Conjoint experiment of candidate preferences by partisanship 179
17. References 183
18. Index 217