dozens of polls which they could ignore at little or no risk to their political future." That is what the British- born president of Louis Harris and Asso- ciates, Humphrey Taylor, writes in The Pub- lic Perspective (Jan.-Feb. 1990).
While they might not be rash enough to say so, virtually all British MPs would agree with Edmund Burke that "your representative owes you not his industry only but his judg- ment; and he betrays you, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."...