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Intro -- DILEMMAS OF REPRESENTATION -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Author's note -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. OVERVIEW OF THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONCERNS -- 3. RETHINKING THE LOCAL NATIONAL DEBATE -- 4. NATIONAL PARTIES,INDIVIDUAL CHOICES -- 5. THE LOCAL-NATIONAL CONNECTION AND THE REPRESENTATION OF MINORITIES -- 6. BALANCING CONSTITUENCIES: FENNO'S BULLS-EYE MODEL IN THE 1990S -- 7. CONCLUDING PERSPECTIVES -- POSTSCRIPT -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Textbooks are often the primary reference when we think of open educational resources (OER). While these textbooks are important and offer obvious economic benefits to students, the range of OER is wide and growing. In this paper, we introduce a specific set of OER, under the rubric of the metaliteracy framework, designed to strengthen critical thinking and the overall learning capacities of students. We describe a successful collaboration between an instructor of a political science course and a librarian, which employed these resources to enhance the overall student experience and to focus student attention on becoming more active contributors to their own learning.

"Politicians with Disabilities: Challenges and Choices" published on by Oxford University Press.

As a number of factors have produced more opportunities for people with disabilities, entry into the political arena is a logical consequence. Questions about what challenges such individuals will face as politicians and how they will choose to "represent" and focus on disability concerns become paramount. We profile the disability-oriented activities of two politicians (Bob Dole and James Langevin) representative of different cultural eras in the disability rights movement. Despite differences in constituencies and ideologies, findings suggest, as has been true for other underrepresented groups, politicians with disabilities will be more likely to represent disability issues. Because Langevin has been more public than Dole about disclosing aspects of his disability, findings also highlight the impact of a changed cultural context, a member's background, personality and other circumstances on aspects of his political activity.