Policy Representation in Western Democracies

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Oxford University Press, 1999 - Political Science - 180 pages
This book offers a comparative analysis of policy representation in five Western Democracies: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US. A leading group of authors examines the impact of belief systems and geographical and institutional characteristics on the match between the policy preferences of the electorate and those of their representatives.
 

Contents

Political Communication between Political Elites
33
A Study of Elite
59
Collective Policy Congruence Compared
87
The Geographical Dimension
110
Empirical Evidence from
137
Mixed Signals
162
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About the author (1999)

Warren Miller is at Arizona State University. Roy Pierce is at University of Michigan.