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Can the “Outsider's” Role be Legitimate?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Donald R. Matthews*
Affiliation:
University of North Carolina

Abstract

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Communications
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1961

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References

1 Matthews, Donald R., U.S. Senators and Their World (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1960), especially ch. 5Google Scholar.

2 In Senator Proxmire's case, Huitt gives two conflicting interpretations of this rejection: first, he argues that Proxmire's nonconformity to Senate folkways was a result of his personality and “compulsive independence” which more or less inevitably drove him into nonconformity; second, he argues that Proxmire exercised choice in the selection of his role.

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