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The 1993 James Madison Award Lecture: The Voice of the People

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

Sidney Verba
Sidney Verba*
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Harvard University
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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , December 1993 , pp. 677 - 686
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 1993

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I am grateful to Kay L. Schlozman and Henry Brady for discussions of the expressed concerns of citizens and for joint data analysis we have done on this subject. I am also grateful to Anya Bernstein for research assistance in preparing this paper.

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