"We have a lot to accomplish, and people have high expectations," said Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts.
There is an additional normative expectation: once representatives commit themselves in public to a given view, they are not supposed to switch to another view unless they can justify such a departure (Elster 1998, 104).As Elster puts it, "public speaking is subject to a consistency constraint.
To determine whether this propensity for catalytic sites to coevolve with one another was significantly higher than random expectations, for each representative structure, we selected random sites equal in number to the number of catalytic sites and asked how many of these random sites coevolved with one another.
In spite of household representative expectations that their elderly would use services more often than the elderly themselves, the consensus is surprising.
Working in a poor community introduced the unique challenge of monetary expectations of CAB representatives.
Not so much as a contingent fact the vote to be won here and now—as an expectation regarding the future: the legitimate expectation, namely, of the representative elected to see his election confirmed in subsequent rounds of elections, each time the mandate expires.
"It is now everyone's business to meet the challenges offered today by the children of Iraq – and their expectations," said UNICEF Iraq Representative Sikander Khan.
Sinn Féin assembly member Gerry Kelly said people had an expectation that elected representatives should deal with the outstanding issues, and the talks were "the only show in town".
But here in Alaska and so many places across the U.S. where we have a pioneering spirit and we have an expectation that our representatives in D.C. will respect the will of the people and respect the intelligence of the people.
