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The Representational Biases of Federalism: Scope and Bias in the Political Process, Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2007

Lisa L. Miller
Lisa L. Miller
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Rutgers University, E-mail: miller@polisci.rutgers.edu
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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.

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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 305 - 321
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© 2007 American Political Science Association

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