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Social status, political priorities and unequal representation
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Abstract Researchers on inequalities in representation debate about whether governments represent the preferences of the rich better than those of less affluent citizens. We argue that problems of high- and low-status citizens are treated differently already at the agenda-setting stage. If affluent and less ... mehr
Researchers on inequalities in representation debate about whether governments represent the preferences of the rich better than those of less affluent citizens. We argue that problems of high- and low-status citizens are treated differently already at the agenda-setting stage. If affluent and less affluent citizens have different priorities about which issues should be tackled by government, then these divergent group priorities explain why government favours high- over low-status citizens. Due to different levels of visibility, resources and social ties, governments pay more attention to what high-status citizens consider important in their legislative agenda and pay less attention to the issues of low-status citizens. We combined three types of data for our research design. First, we extracted the policy priorities (most important issues) for all status groups from Eurobarometer data between 2002 and 2016 for 10 European countries and matched this information with data on policy outcomes from the Comparative Agendas Project. We then strengthen our results using a focused comparison of three single country studies over longer time series. We show that a priority gap exists and has representational consequences. Our analysis has important implications for the understanding of the unequal representation of status groups as it sheds light on an important, yet so far unexplored, aspect of the political process. Since the misrepresentation of political agendas occurs at the very beginning of the policy-making process, the consequences are potentially even more severe than for the unequal treatment of preferences.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Ungleichheit; Repräsentation; sozialer Status; Priorität; politische Agenda; Österreich; Belgien; Dänemark; Frankreich; Bundesrepublik Deutschland; Ungarn; Italien; Niederlande; Spanien; Großbritannien; Europa; Regierungspolitik
Klassifikation
Allgemeine Soziologie, Makrosoziologie, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Soziologie
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
Freie Schlagwörter
political priorities
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2021
Seitenangabe
S. 1-23
Zeitschriftentitel
European Journal of Political Research (2021)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12456
ISSN
1475-6765
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht kommerz., Keine Bearbeitung 4.0