Policy Representation in Western Democracies.(Review) (book review)

Policy Representation in Western Democracies. By Warren E. Miller, Roy Pierce, Jacques Thomassen, Richard Herrera, Soren Holmberg, Peter Esaiasson, and Bernhard Wessels. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. 180p. $65.00.

Those who study the concept of representation are undoubledly familiar with the 1963 study by Warren Miller and Donald Stokes ("Constituency Influence in Congress," American Political Science Review 57 [March 1963]: 45-56), which had a profound effect on scholars' understanding of the relationship or "congruence" between representatives and ...

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