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Article Excerpt
Mandate Politics. By Lawrence J. Grossman, David A.M. Peterson, and James A. Stimson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 208 pp.
According to normative democratic theory, voters should express their policy preferences when they elect their representatives and government officials. Although research has failed to find much evidence of widespread issue voting, the authors of Mandate Politics claim that the electorate occasionally does send an ideological message or mandate to its representatives.
Grossman, Peterson, and Stimson never specifically define "mandate," and they admit that "[w]e could not agree if that election [1994] had been a mandate or if any election could be a mandate. Despite years of trying, we never could develop a test of whether or...
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