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Democratic Representation and Responsiveness Democratic Representation and Responsiveness
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The President and Public Opinion The President and Public Opinion
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Presidential Understanding of Public Opinion Presidential Understanding of Public Opinion
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The Rise of Presidential Polling The Rise of Presidential Polling
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Are Citizens' Preferences Real? Are Citizens' Preferences Real?
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Presidential Responsiveness Presidential Responsiveness
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Citizens' Preferences and Dimensions of Responsiveness Citizens' Preferences and Dimensions of Responsiveness
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Whose Preferences? Whose Preferences?
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Who Responds to Whom? Who Responds to Whom?
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Conclusion Conclusion
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References References
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8 Presidential Responsiveness to Public Opinion
Get accessJames N. Druckman is Payson S. Wild Professor of Political Science and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University.
Lawrence R. Jacobs is the Walter F. and Joan Mondale Chair for Political Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute and the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Jacobs has published dozens of articles and 14 books and edited volumes including The Oxford Handbook of American Public Opinion and the Media (co-edited with Robert Y. Shapiro) and Talking Together: Public Deliberation in America and the Search for Community (with Fay Lomax Cook, and Michael Delli Carpini). Dr. Jacobs co-edits the “Chicago Series in American Politics” for the University of Chicago Press.
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Published:02 May 2010
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Abstract
This article explores the president's emergence as a ‘representative’. It also presents different definitions of representation and examines research into the modern definition of presidential representativeness — the president's responsiveness to public opinion. A number of complications that studies of responsiveness face is emphasized, including the questions of whether citizens even possess ‘real preferences’, what specific aspects of preferences leaders respond to, whose preferences they consider, and whether citizens' preferences merely reflect those of elites. In addition, the article outlines the five major and exemplary bodies of research that investigate the extent and nature of presidential representation. Presidential representation varies across dimensions and levels of salience. It is much more complicated, multidimensional, and dynamic than investigations of whether the public's policy preferences align with the president's policies capture.
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