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17. Nelson W. Polsby. 1968. “The Institutionalization of the U.S. House of Representatives.”American Political Science Review62 (March): 144–68. Cited 287 times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2006

Nelson W. Polsby
Affiliation:
University of California, Berkeley

Extract

I frequently tell my graduate students that a good indicator that a piece of work has attained the status of a classic is the extent to which it is cited irrelevantly. Although I have been vaguely conscious in the years since this article was published that it has turned up in a lot of footnotes, I have not followed its career in the literature closely enough to be able to tell whether by this austere criterion it qualifies.

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References

Fenno Richard. 1998. “Introduction.” Explorations in the Evolution of Congress, by H. Douglas Price. Berkeley: Institute of Governmental Studies Press.
Lindblom Charles. 1959. “The Science of Muddling Through.” Public Administration Review 19 (Spring): 7988.Google Scholar
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