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5. Warren E. Miller and Donald E. Stokes. 1963. “Constituency Influence in Congress.”American Political Science Review57 (March): 45–56 Cited 457 times.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

Robert S. Erikson
Affiliation:
Columbia University

Extract

In just 13 pages, Warren Miller and Donald Stokes's “Constituency Influence in Congress” established the agenda for the next half-century of research on congressional representation. Along with its sister paper, “Party Government and the Salience of Congress” (Stokes and Miller 1962), “Constituency Influence” famously documents the general impoverishment of voters' knowledge of Congress and its members. Of at least equal importance is its analysis of congressional behavior as a response to oft-ambiguous constituency views, incorporating rich interview data of the sort not seen since. It is no wonder that Miller and Stokes' paper is among the most heavily cited—and influential—of all papers that have graced the pages of the Review.

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“TOP TWENTY” COMMENTARIES
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© 2006 by the American Political Science Association

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References

Campbell Angus, Philip E. Converse, Warren E. Miller, Donald E. Stokes. 1960. The American Voter. New York: Wiley.
Donald E. Stokes, and Warren E. Miller. 1962. “Party Government and the Salience of Congress.” Public Opinion Quarterly 36 (Winter): 53146.Google Scholar