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| Preface | |
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| Public Opinion and Policy in Representative Democracy | |
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| Policy Representation | |
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| Public Responsiveness | |
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| Synopsis and Prognosis | |
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| The Thermostatic Model | |
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| The Mechanics of Public Responsiveness | |
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| The Mechanics of Policy Representation | |
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| Public Preferences and the Polls | |
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| The Reasonableness of the Thermostatic Model | |
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| Adding Issues and Institutions | |
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| Adding Salience | |
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| Adding Institutions | |
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| System Efficiency | |
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| From Theory to Practice | |
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| Public Preferences and Spending - A Preliminary Analysis | |
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| Measuring Public Preferences | |
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| Measuring Spending Policy | |
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| The Measures Summarized | |
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| Parameters of Public Responsiveness | |
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| Modeling Public Responsiveness | |
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| A First Test: Defense and the Domestic Domains Taken Together | |
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| Public Responsiveness, by Domain | |
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| Parameters of Public Responsiveness | |
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| Public Responsiveness Explored | |
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| Budgetary Policy versus Actual Spending | |
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| The Timing of Responsiveness | |
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| Policy, Outcomes, and Public Responsiveness | |
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| Federal versus Consolidated Spending | |
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| "Global" versus "Specific" Responsiveness | |
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| The Focus of Public Responsiveness | |
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| Policy Representation | |
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| Modeling Policy Representation | |
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| A First Test: Policy Representation in Defense and the Social Domains | |
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| Policy Representation, by Domain | |
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| Representation in Budgetary Policy | |
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| Representation and Marginality: The Electoral Connection | |
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| Representation or Manipulation? | |
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| Responsiveness and Representation | |
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| Disaggregating Public Responsiveness and Policy Representation | |
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| On Equality | |
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| Group Differences in the Literature | |
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| Parallel Publics? | |
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| Groups and Public Responsiveness | |
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| Groups and Policy Representation | |
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| The Homogeneity of Opinion-Policy Dynamics | |
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| Degrees of Democracy | |
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| On Responsiveness and Representation | |
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| Institutions and Representative Democracy | |
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| The "Efficiency" of Political Systems | |
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| Final Thoughts | |
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| Appendix | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |