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%T The party road to representation: Unequal responsiveness in party platforms %A Schakel, Wouter %A Burgoon, Brian %J European Journal of Political Research %P 1-22 %D 2021 %K ISSP 1985/1990/1996/2006 Cumulation - “Role of Government I-IV” – ZA No.4747/4748 %@ 1475-6765 %~ FDB %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-78219-3 %X 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. %C GBR %G en %9 Zeitschriftenartikel %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info