The DOI matches its Crossref record; 1 of the 1 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Collective vs. Dyadic Representation in Congress
Abstract
Previous studies of legislative-constituency representation have focused almost exclusively on pairs of Congress members and their constituencies. It is possible, however, to think of representation collectively, i.e., to consider the extent to which Congress as an institution represents the American people. Our analysis delineates this concept of representation, analyzes its existence by use of probability theory and the Miller-Stokes data, and then considers the relationship between collective representation and electoral control. We conclude that citizens probably get better representation than is suggested by the Miller-Stokes analysis, that the amount of representation may be more a function of institutional arrangements than of electoral control, and that citizen indifference towards many aspects of legislative politics is quite reasonable, given the existence of collective representation.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Fenichel Pitkin, H. (1967) · doi:10.1525/9780520340503 · Cited by 5,162
Cited by
Kitschelt, H., Hawkins, K. A., Luna, J. P., Rosas, G., & Zechmeister, E. J. (2010) · doi:10.1017/cbo9780511750311 · Cited by 559
Policy Preferences and Policy Change: Dynamic Responsiveness in the American States, 1936–2014
CAUGHEY, D., & WARSHAW, C. (2018) · American Political Science Review · doi:10.1017/s0003055417000533 · Cited by 340
The Impact of Representative Bureaucracies: Educational Systems and Public Policies
Meier, K. J., & Stewart, J. (1992) · The American Review of Public Administration · doi:10.1177/027507409202200301 · Cited by 310
Public Perceptions of Women’s Inclusion and Feelings of Political Efficacy
STAUFFER, K. E. (2021) · American Political Science Review · doi:10.1017/s0003055421000678 · Cited by 117
How Public Opinion Information Changes Politicians’ Opinions and Behavior
Sevenans, J. (2021) · Political Behavior · doi:10.1007/s11109-021-09715-9 · Cited by 69
Metadata
- Authors
- Weissberg, R.
- Venue
- American Political Science Review
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 1978-06
- Volume
- 72
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 535-547
- ISSN
- 0003-0554 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5943
- OpenAlex
- W2045636895
- Cited by
- 405
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 37.71
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Collective vs. Dyadic Representation in Congress. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.2307/1954109
- The paper
- Weissberg, R. (1978). Collective vs. Dyadic Representation in Congress. American Political Science Review. https://doi.org/10.2307/1954109
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
