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Politicians Don't Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness.(Review) (book review)
American Prospect, The, September, 2000 by YANKELOVICH, DANIEL
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Politicians Pander: Political Manipulation and the Loss of Democratic Responsiveness, by Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro.
University of Chicago Press, 425 pages, $17.00.
Politicians Don't Pander is one of those valuable books that force us to confront our compartmentalized thinking about politics. Lawrence R. Jacobs and Robert Y. Shapiro, two prominent political scientists, point out that Americans simultaneously hold two contradictory beliefs, each with firm conviction. One is that the growing influence of public-opinion polls has increased political ...
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