Introduction: The Study of Presidential Politics in America -- Partisan Polarization and Factionalism, 1980 and 1984 -- Mass-Elite Similarities -- Linkage Mechanisms: Party -- Linkage Mechanisms: Ideological Factions and Issue Representation -- Linkage Mechanisms: Political Leadership -- Linkage Mechanisms: Elite Orientations -- Individuals, Institutions, and Representation
Summary
The transmission of policy preferences from the mass electorate to the political elite is the subject of Warren Miller's illuminating new book. The elites of whom he writes are the delegates to recent nominating conventions analyzed in their subsequent roles as activists involved in presidential election campaigns. Miller's analysis delineates circumstances and conditions that affect the degree to which the issue preferences of these elite activists are more or less representative of those held by rank-and-file members of the nation's electorate. Miller argues that, although consent and account
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index
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