@article{d98e8ce27b1944b3b2983a88cab981df,
title = "Voluntary Retirements from The House in the Twentieth Century",
abstract = "In the 1970s a startling number of United States representatives chose not to seek reelection to the House. This recent rush to retire reversed a long-term trend toward fewer and fewer voluntary departures and raises questions about the nature of the modern House as well as the motivations of the people who serve in it. In this article, several explanations of the variations in the number of voluntary retirements from the House are tested using aggregate, time-series data for the period from 1900 to 1980. The results indicate that two of the most important predictors of retirement rates are monetary remuneration and, most of all, method used to determine advancement within the committee system.",
author = "Hibbing, {John R.}",
note = "Funding Information: * I wish to acknowledge the financial assistance of the National Science Foundation. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations-expressed in this article are those of the author and do not reflect necessarily the views of NSF. In addition, some of the data utilized in this article were made available by the InterUniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research. The data were collected originally by Carroll R. McKibbin. Neither the original collector of the data nor the Consortium bears any responsibility for the analyses or interpretations presented here. Valuable comments on an earlier draft were contributed by Samuel C. Patterson, John R. Alford, and Anne Nielsen Hibbing. Funding Information: 3 Unless otherwise noted, the quotes used in this article were obtained in the course of 24 personal interviews with members of the House who retired in 1978. The interviews were conducted in the summer of 1980. They were tape-recorded and there was an understanding that the identity of the respective speakers would not be revealed. The interviews were made possible by a grant from the National Science Foundation.",
year = "1982",
month = nov,
doi = "10.2307/2130671",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "44",
pages = "1020--1034",
journal = "The Journal of Politics",
issn = "0022-3816",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "4",
}