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have long been concerned with electoral activity and formal interest-group activity as methods of citizen participation linking public policy preferences to governmental outputs.'However, as a means of assuring that public policy corresponds to citizen preferences, both of these modes of participation have their limitations.For example, Verba and Nie argue that "voting can provide a lot of pressure on leaders (especially if
Paul Schumaker (Thu,) studied this question.