Policy Representation in Western DemocraciesThis book offers a comparative analysis of policy representation in five Western Democracies: France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the US. A leading group of authors examines the impact of belief systems and geographical and institutional characteristics on the match between the policy preferences of the electorate and those of their representatives. |
Contents
Political Communication between Political Elites | 33 |
A Study of Elite | 59 |
Collective Policy Congruence Compared | 87 |
The Geographical Dimension | 110 |
Empirical Evidence from | 137 |
Mixed Signals | 162 |
Common terms and phrases
Achen Aggregate salience American National Election American Political Science analysis Bernhard Wessels candidates Category of response cent collective of representatives compared conservative constituents and representatives Converse and Pierce correlations countries Democracy Democratic districts Dutch electoral systems elite and mass elite level European Herrera hypothesis ical issue congruence left-right dimension leftist liberal Lijphart majoritarian mass and elite mass public mass samples Category mass-elite mean position measure median voter members of parliament MPs and voters National Election Study Netherlands non-structural issues Number of issues opinion distributions party system party voters percentage of respondents philosophy category polarization policy congruence policy linkages policy representation policy views political elite political parties Political Science political supply political systems PvdA Q scores relative responsiveness Representation Study responsible party model rightist Riksdag salience of meanings scale scores specific representatives surveys Sweden Swedish Table tion unimodal United vote Warren E Warren Miller West Germany