Legislative Behavior, 1967-1968
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7329599 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John C Wahlke (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 215-215 |
| Publication date | 1987-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Legislative Studies Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0362-9805 • E-ISSN: 1939-9162 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2307/439919 |
| OpenAlex | W2322701868 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Some readers will be disappointed that, so far as behavior is concerned, Political Representation in focuses almost exclusively on classic Miller-Stokes parallelogram, in which end variable is roll-call vote (see p. 172, above). The other major variables Converse and Pierce deal with are legislators' private convictions on policy cleavages of day, understandings of district sentiment on these, and their conceptions of representative (pp. 693-694). They add one element, legislators' role conceptions, not part of original model. These constitute the raw materials contributing to process of political representation in France at molecular level (pp. 693-694). Readers will look in vain for information about dimensions of behavior which have long interested many scholars, though few are interested in all of them and many have individually preoccupied themselves with only one or two of them. Converse and Pierce do not consider legislators' political socialization and recruitment; their reliance on cues from and loyalties to such sources as subject-matter experts, personal friends, and friendship groups; their actual relationships with party organizations in their districts; or influence on their behavior (including their roll-call votes) of lobbies and pressure groups. Disappointment is understandable, given long period over which publication of work has been eagerly anticipated and hopes aroused by first sight of work's size. But authors' major concern is more with macrolevel aspects of political representation, not primarily with range of microlevel questions connoted by legislative behavior. So disappointment on this score is hardly a legitimate criticism of their work. Indeed, readers who stay with it will find not just a wealth of information about macrolevel aspects of decision making and about representation in general in France, but more than enough information about microbehavioral aspects of representation in to console them for their initial disappointment. There is a surfeit of information about each of relationships
Business · Legislature · Political science · Historical and Political Studies · Law · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 1993 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |