Year: 1975
Type: article
Abstract: P OLMCAL SCIENTISTS have long been concerned with electoral activity and formal interest-group activity as methods of citizen participation linking public policy preferences to governmental outputs.'However, as a means of assuring that public policy corresponds to citizen preferences, both of these modes of participation have their limitations.For example, Verba and Nie argue that "voting can provide a lot of pressure on leaders (especially if * This article is a revised version of a paper entitled "Urban Protest Groups: Explaining Successful Interactions with Public Authorities," presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Denver, Colo., April 4-6, 1974.I am grateful to Peter Eisinger, Charles Cnudde, Jean Schumaker, Russell Getter, Herman Lujan, and David Jones for their many helpful suggestions and their assistance in developing, researching, or reporting the concepts in this paper.1 The literature on the policy effectiveness of electoral and interest-group participation is enormous.See Norman R.
Source: The Journal of Politics
Author: Paul D. Schumaker
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2042942396