5. Warren E. Miller and Donald E. Stokes. 1963. “Constituency Influence in Congress.” American Political Science Review 57 (March): 45–56 Cited 457 times.

In just 13 pages, Warren Miller and Donald Stokes's “Constituency Influence in Congress” established the agenda for the next half-century of research on congressional representation. Along with its sister paper, “Party Government and the Salience of Congress” (Stokes and Miller 1962), “Constituency Influence” famously documents the general impoverishment of voters' knowledge of Congress and its members. Of at least equal importance is its...