Institutional Representation as Institutional Accountability in the Arkansas General Assembly

Authors

  • Donald E. Whistler
  • Charles DeWitt Dunn

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15763/issn.2374-7781.1983.4.0.40-55

Abstract

In her masterful analysis of the many faces of representation Hannah Fenichal Pitkin (1967) notes that the individual-representative-and-her/his-constituency is the typical way that representation has been conceptualized. And, the usual component studied in this representational interaction (since the influential Mi 1ler-Stokes work in 1963), is the congruence of the public policy positions of individual legislators and their constituencies (Eulau and Karps in Eulau and Wahlke, 1978:55-58). Pitkin suggests a change in focus to a conception of whom, what, and how a legislature as an overall system represents a political community rather than the individual-legislator-and-her/his-constituency conception

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1984-01-01

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Vol. 4: Winter 1983

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