Bringing representation home : state legislators among their constituencies

Bringing representation home : state legislators among their constituencies / Michael A. Smith.

"In Bringing Representation Home, Michael A. Smith strays from the norm by asking instead, "How can we discover what representation is?" In pursuing the answer to this question, Smith focuses on what representation is in practice, not what it is in theory. Over the course of two legis...

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Main Author: Smith, Michael A., 1970-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2003.
Subjects:
Legislators > United States > States.
Representative government and representation > United States > States.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Legislators > U.S. states
Representative government and representation > U.S. states
United States
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Table of Contents:
  • Studying Representation
  • Constructing Roles from the Representatives' Perspectives: Literature and Methods
  • Burkeans
  • The Suburban Burkean
  • The Commonsense Burkean
  • In-District Advocates
  • The Consummate Politician
  • The Conscience of the District
  • The Inner-City Advocate
  • The Common Man Writ Large
  • Advocates beyond the District
  • The Progressive
  • The Civic Booster
  • Ombudspersons
  • Doing His Job, Voting the District
  • The Good Citizen
  • Listening and Responding
  • The Rural Ombudsman
  • Districts, Ambitions, and Strategies in a Term-Limited Era
  • Concentric Circles of Constituency
  • Hypotheses
  • Term Limits: Institutional and Individual Effects
  • Data Collection
  • Site of the Study
  • Coding Decisions: Distinguishing among Suburbs
  • A Note on Grammar and Names.

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