The Representational Biases of Federalism: Scope and Bias in the Political Process, Revisited
- 14 May 2007
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Perspectives on Politics
- Vol. 5 (02), 305-321
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s1537592707070806
Abstract
In 1960, E.E. Schattschneider noted that every change in the scope of political conflict has a bias; political conflicts that are localized tend to be highly restrictive, while nationalizing conflicts can draw in previously excluded groups. In contrast to this conventional wisdom, this paper suggests that the question of which venues are open to which interests is an empirical one.Lisa L. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University (miller@polisci.rutgers.edu). The author would like to thank Frank Baumgartner, Regina Lawrence, Beth Leech, Michael McCann, and Marie Gottschalk, as well as the three anonymous reviewers, for their invaluable comments on earlier drafts.Keywords
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