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Preface | p. vii |
Public Opinion and Policy in Representative Democracy | p. 1 |
Policy Representation | p. 4 |
Public Responsiveness | p. 14 |
Synopsis and Prognosis | p. 20 |
The Thermostatic Model | p. 22 |
The Mechanics of Public Responsiveness | p. 22 |
The Mechanics of Policy Representation | p. 35 |
Public Preferences and the Polls | p. 40 |
The Reasonableness of the Thermostatic Model | p. 41 |
Adding Issues and Institutions | p. 43 |
Adding Salience | p. 43 |
Adding Institutions | p. 45 |
System Efficiency | p. 59 |
From Theory to Practice | p. 60 |
Public Preferences and Spending - A Preliminary Analysis | p. 63 |
Measuring Public Preferences | p. 64 |
Measuring Spending Policy | p. 78 |
The Measures Summarized | p. 87 |
Parameters of Public Responsiveness | p. 88 |
Modeling Public Responsiveness | p. 89 |
A First Test: Defense and the Domestic Domains Taken Together | p. 90 |
Public Responsiveness, by Domain | p. 99 |
Parameters of Public Responsiveness | p. 106 |
Public Responsiveness Explored | p. 107 |
Budgetary Policy versus Actual Spending | p. 108 |
The Timing of Responsiveness | p. 111 |
Policy, Outcomes, and Public Responsiveness | p. 115 |
Federal versus Consolidated Spending | p. 119 |
"Global" versus "Specific" Responsiveness | p. 121 |
The Focus of Public Responsiveness | p. 123 |
Policy Representation | p. 125 |
Modeling Policy Representation | p. 126 |
A First Test: Policy Representation in Defense and the Social Domains | p. 128 |
Policy Representation, by Domain | p. 133 |
Representation in Budgetary Policy | p. 135 |
Representation and Marginality: The Electoral Connection | p. 137 |
Representation or Manipulation? | p. 140 |
Responsiveness and Representation | p. 142 |
Disaggregating Public Responsiveness and Policy Representation | p. 145 |
On Equality | p. 145 |
Group Differences in the Literature | p. 148 |
Parallel Publics? | p. 150 |
Groups and Public Responsiveness | p. 157 |
Groups and Policy Representation | p. 161 |
The Homogeneity of Opinion-Policy Dynamics | p. 165 |
Degrees of Democracy | p. 168 |
On Responsiveness and Representation | p. 168 |
Institutions and Representative Democracy | p. 173 |
The "Efficiency" of Political Systems | p. 177 |
Final Thoughts | p. 182 |
Appendix | p. 183 |
Bibliography | p. 219 |
Index | p. 239 |
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