Representatives must both voice constituents’ worries and correct their errors

Evidence

To understand a worry is in some sense to acknowledge that the worry is reasonable. It takes rhetorical care to both communicate that one understands what people think and also correct it. By representing himself as sharing the worry of a military takeover, he failed to fulfill his responsibility to not only express an understanding but also correct a misunderstanding by telling his constituents that their fears are unfounded and dangerous. He abdicated his responsibility to maintain a partisan connection that works in two directions. The two-way connection transmits information not only from the citizens to government but also from the government to citizens. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 324

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Representatives legitimize constituent fears by sympathetically acknowledging them — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 324; Official acknowledgment of a fear ratifies it as reasonable unless paired with correction — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying: The New…, 324

Broader Connections

• Official acknowledgment of a fear ratifies it as reasonable unless paired with correction #qualifies (0.85) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 324
• Representatives legitimize constituent fears by sympathetically acknowledging them #corroborates (0.82) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 324