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1 - Majoritarian Politics and Minority Interests

from Part I - Frustrated Majorities, Issue Intensity, and Political Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 September 2022

Seth J. Hill
Seth J. Hill
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
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Summary

Elected representatives do not faithfully deliver policies desired by majorities of their constituents. While many blame special interests or failures by voters for frustrated majorities, I suggest these explanations incomplete. Voters can cause candidates for office to frustrate majorities because of differences in issue intensity. This chapter presents the controversy, the basic argument, connections to single-issue voters and issue publics, the main results, and the scope and outline of the book.

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Issue intensitypolitical actiondemocratic deficitrepresentationdemocratic theorysingle-issue votersmajority rule
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Frustrated Majorities
How Issue Intensity Enables Smaller Groups of Voters to Get What They Want
 , pp. 3 - 19
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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