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The Recruitment of Political Leaders: A Study of Citizen-Politicians
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The City Council Research Project at Stanford University as mentioned in this paper was concerned with decision making in small, natural state legislative groups, legislative behavior within the city council, the kinds of people who become members of the city Council, how they are chosen and how they learn their jobs, and the many problems they have to deal with.Abstract:
This study is based on data collected by the City Council Research Project, Stanford University. The project was concerned with decision making in small, natural-state legislative groups, legislative behavior within the city council, the kinds of people who become members of the city council, how they are chosen, how they learn their jobs, and the many problems they have to deal with.read more
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