A Profile of New York State Legislators

THE PRESENT STUDY takes its cue from the noted political scientist, V. O. Key. In his book, American State Politics: An Introduction, he makes the following statement: For decades American state governments have supported a flourishing profession of experts on the design and construction of governmental apparatus. In the main, these specialists in their diagnoses and recommendations have not gone far beyond the forms and procedures of the administrative structure of state government, a matter admittedly worthy of attention. Yet such a definition of mission excluded from attention some of the more fundamental issues of popular government. All the problems of the party system the recruitment of leaders, the maintenance of responsiveness and responsibility, the assurance of opportunity for popular choice have been in the main outside the domain of the experts on state government

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