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The party road to representation: Unequal responsiveness in party platforms.
- Source :
- European Journal of Political Research; May2022, Vol. 61 Issue 2, p304-325, 22p, 4 Charts, 2 Graphs
- Publication Year :
- 2022
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Abstract
- This paper explores a major road to substantive representation in democracies, by clarifying whether demands of rich and poor citizens are taken up in the electoral platforms of political parties. Doing so constitutes a substantial broadening and deepening of our understanding of substantive representation – broadening the countries, issue‐areas and years that form the empirical basis for judging whether democracies manifest unequal representation; and deepening the process of representation by clarifying a key pathway connecting societal demands to policy outcomes. The paper hypothesises that party systems in general will respond more strongly to wealthy than to poor segments of a polity. It also hypothesises that left parties will more faithfully represent poorer and less significantly represent richer citizens than do right parties. We find substantial support for these expectations in a new dataset that combines multi‐country, multi‐issue‐area, multi‐wave survey data with data on party platforms for 39 democracies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03044130
- Volume :
- 61
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- European Journal of Political Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 156194685
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12489