Download full text
(227.3Kb)
Citation Suggestion
Please use the following Persistent Identifier (PID) to cite this document:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-78219-3
Exports for your reference manager
The party road to representation: Unequal responsiveness in party platforms
[journal article]
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 represe... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
representation; inequality; party; public opinion; social status; social stratum; party system; political program; democracy
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
ISSP 1985/1990/1996/2006 Cumulation - “Role of Government I-IV” – ZA No.4747/4748
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Page/Pages
p. 1-22
Journal
European Journal of Political Research (2021)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12489
ISSN
1475-6765
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed