Policy Representation in Western Democracies.(Review) (book review)
American Political Science Review, March, 2001 by O'Regan, Valerie R.
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 constituents. Others (see Sidney Verba and Norman H. Nie, Participation in America: Political Democracy and Social Equality, 1972; Heinz Eulau and Paul D. Karps, "The Puzzle of Representation: Specifying...
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