Political realignment: economics, culture, and electoral change
In: Oxford scholarship online
In: Political Science
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In: Oxford scholarship online
In: Political Science
In: Oxford scholarship online
In: Political Science
This volume examines the changing patterns of political participation over the past quarter of a century and the ways they have altered the relationship between citizens and their government. It documents the growing participation gap in contemporary democracies and proposes a variety of methods to narrow the gap
In: Sourcebook on contemporary controversies
How do institutions and electoral systems matter for citizens' electoral choices? This study attempts to answer this question for contemporary democracies. The book assembles leading electoral researchers to examine citizen choice in over 30 democracies surveyed by the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems.
In: European Union politics: EUP, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 188-211
ISSN: 1741-2757
Political theorists maintain that citizens' representation through elections is the cornerstone of democracy. However, many analysts claim that a deficit in democratic representation exists within the European Union. This research examines the ideological match between voters and their party using the 2009 European Election Study. Aggregate agreement between voters and their parties' ideological position is very high, but agreement at the individual level is modest. Barely a majority of partisans favor the party that is closest to them on the Left–Right scale, and vote shifts to another party triples the representation gap. We model the factors affecting the size of this gap and voting for a nonproximate party. The results illustrate the representation gap that individual voters perceive in EU elections with implications for democratic representation.
In: Electoral Studies, Band 44, S. 525-534
In: Congress & the presidency, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 166-168
ISSN: 1944-1053
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Party Identification and Its Implications" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 44, S. 525-534
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: Electoral studies: an international journal, Band 44, Heft December, S. 525-534
ISSN: 0261-3794
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 23, Heft 6, S. 609-622
ISSN: 1460-3683
Issue congruence between citizens and policy makers should be one of the central aspects of a democratic process. This study uses the 2009 European Election Study to compare the views of citizens and party elites on a diverse set of domestic policy issues and overall Left-Right identities. We find very high levels of congruence for Left-Right positions and socio-economic issues. Parties are less representative of their supporters on the newer cultural issues of immigration and authority, as well as gender issues. National political contexts have limited influence on congruence levels, although some party characteristics such as political extremism or party family are linked to citizen-voter agreement. On the whole, citizens and like-minded parties do connect through the electoral process to a high degree. However, the results also argue for a multidimensional approach to assessing representation to recognize where parties agree and deviate from their supporters.
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 21, Heft 4, S. 661-662
ISSN: 1460-3683