Without Consent : Mass-Elite Linkages in Presidential Politics / Warren E. Miller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Miller, Warren E. (Warren Edward), 1924-

Series:

Blazer Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Representative government and representation--United States.

Representative government and representation.

Presidents--United States--Election.

Presidents.

Elite (Social sciences)--United States.

Elite (Social sciences).

Primaries--United States.

Primaries.

Political conventions--United States.

Political conventions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (202 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1988.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; 1. Introduction: The Study of Presidential Politics in America; The Objective of the Study; The Setting and Design of the Study; 2. Partisan Polarization and Factionalism, 1980 and 1984; Measuring Change, 1980-84; The Measurement of Group Differences; 3. Mass-Elite Similarities; The Analytic Paradigm; Interyear Comparisons; 4. Linkage Mechanisms: Party; Party As a Guide to Action; Party Organization; Electoral Competition; 5. Linkage Mechanisms: Ideological Factions and Issue Representation; Issue Representation

Ideological Factions6. Linkage Mechanisms: Political Leadersh; Leadership Patterns; Party Leadership in the 1980s; 7. Linkage Mechanisms: Elite Orientations; Some Thoughts on Representation; Representative Roles; Local/National Orientation; Delegate Selection; 8. Individuals, Institutions, and Represention; Appendix A. Data Sources; Appendix B. Measures of Policy Preferences; Appendix C. Index Construction: Measures of Political Variables among Elites; Notes; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [171]-176.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813157726

0813157722

OCLC:

577993694