Legislators Are Highly Responsive To District-Specific Information About Public Opinion On Issues

Legislators Are Highly Responsive To District-Specific Information About Public Opinion On Issues: pA fair amount of research indicates that American politicians aren’t actually all that responsive to public opinion on different issues. The leading interpretation of this is that voters aren’t particularly diligent in monitoring what politicians do. A field experiment from Daniel M. Butler and David W. Nickerson (PDF) indicates that legislator ignorance of what the [...]/p