2017-08-08 · Her interests include representation, responsiveness, political inequality, and political participation. Her research appears in, for example, the European Journal of Political Research, the Journal of European Public Policy, Political Studies, and West European Politics.

decision-making stage, institutional friction will increase and policy responsiveness will decrease since the capacity of policymakers to respond to the public’s demands will be lower (Jones et al .

David Plotke (1997) has noted that this emphasis on mechanisms of authorization and accountability was especially useful in the context of the Cold War. One aspect of democracy, related to the functioning of representation, is political equality. According to Dahl (On democracy, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1998), democracies should be both responsive and treat its citizens as political equals. This latter element may be taken to mean that democracies should be—more or less—equally responsive to their citizens. Footnote 19 It shows that legislators’ responsiveness to the policy preferences and low-income and high-income constituents depends on district-level union membership: as unionization increases, legislators’ responsiveness to low-income constituents increases, while their responsiveness to high-income constituents declines. For example, moving from a district with median levels of union membership to one at the seventy-fifth percentile increases the responsiveness of legislators to low This thesis explores “The Conditions of Effective Policy Representation in a Cross-National Perspective: Veto Players, Public Opinion and Government Responsiveness”. When one indicator of a democracy’s quality is whether and how well governments respond to citizens’ demands, continuing policy responsiveness is a key concern.

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All product  av G Thomson · 2020 — This case study represents a small intervention in the grand scheme of a regional policy planning process. However, it does represent a relatively powerful  av S Ericsson · 2020 · Citerat av 1 — Based on the analysis, two challenges for UD policy are identified: (i) how to convey These are two representative examples, with categorisations of people  av N Tahvilzadeh · 2015 · Citerat av 1 — Nazem Tahvilzadeh sammandrag: Frågan om (o)jämlik representation och närvarons politik i politiska motsättningar i samhället och policypreferenser (Meier och Nigro 1976;. Dolan 2000 Diversity and responsiveness. av FF FÖRETRÄDARE · Citerat av 5 — Policy. Representation in Western Democracies.

Homogeneity and Heterogeneity in Public Responsiveness to Policy Stuart N. Soroka Christopher Wlezien McGill University Temple University Montréal, Québec Philadelphia, PA E-mail: stuart.soroka@mcgill.ca E-mail: wlezien@temple.edu [Keywords: Groups, opinion, information, thermostat, feedback] Abstract: This paper examines homogeneity and heterogeneity in preferences for public policy, across

Governments can be representative without a direct responsiveness causal mechanism. According to democratic theory, policy responsiveness is a key characteristic of democratic government: citizens’ preferences should affect policy outcomes.

Effective policy representation presupposes public responsiveness to policy itself; that is, it presupposes that the public effectively notices what policymakers actually do. There are two reasons. First, public responsiveness provides an important motivation for politicians to represent public preferences: a monitoring public.

We strive to have representation in all our key markets and the opening of an office in  av SS Werkö · Citerat av 7 — tially after the 1960s, whereas the state policy has varied in different areas of the Both organisations represent the same disease: diabetes mellitus.8 This Van de Ven W., “Towards more Efficiency, Responsiveness and Coordination in the  A Study on Molecular Genetics of Drug Responsiveness in Essential Hypertension Könsbeskrivning: Based on self-representation of gender identity. The following findings and conclusions for the executive summary represent a selection The programme has not been responsive to the Swedish policies of  Handbook of Global Political Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 83. process rights of employ- ees, political responsiveness, and representative bureaucracy. II. decision-making in a democracy and the representativeness of policy outcome. responsiveness; policy representation; concurrence; voluntary association  Stockholm Studies in Politics 184 Women s Discursive Representation Piscopo distinguish between two aspects of policy responsiveness and state that these  “Comparing and Contrasting Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy with the United States Women's Representation: Sweden's lessons for the U.S. Social Democracy and Political Culture: Patty Responsiveness to Social Change in Sweden.

proposed policy minus the percent opposing the proposed policy out of the total number of respondents for each question.
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II. and conflicting conceptions of how politREPRESENTATION The notion of representation may be regarded as an effort by Empirical analysis shows that public responsiveness, like policy representation, varies across policy domains and political institutions (Soroka & Wlezien, 2010). That representation is likely to be greater in salient domains is largely the product of representatives reacting in domains in which publics themselves are monitoring and reacting to policy change, for instance. responsive to the preferences of their constituencies. As such, political scientists have worked to better understand the relationship between legislative outcomes and public opinion for decades.
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agree with policy actions taken by a representative can the delegate model cal representatives for interacting in a responsive fashion with their voters,.

Our main expectation is that policy responsiveness is biased in favour of higher education groups. 1 1 We use policy representation and policy responsiveness as synonyms throughout the paper. Both terms refer to the extent to which the political system enacts policy changes that align with preferences as expressed by a majority of citizens. responsiveness in the US and European countries. Second, we further elaborate on this studys expectations; we discuss why policy preferences across policy issues may vary across income groups, why policy outputs may be biased towards the rich and which factors could produce cross-country variation in unequal responsiveness.

literature on representation finds government responsiveness to public opinion in that policy outcomes correlate, sometimes strongly, with public preferences. Responsiveness is most evident when public opinion and policy are each in a broad aggregate—the liberal versus conservative

Shin-Goo Kang, and ; G. Bingham PowellJr. Policy responsiveness is a goal of democratic government—that government action responds to the preferences of its citizens. It is conceptually distinct from “representation,” whereby government actions mirror the preferences of public opinion. Governments can be representative without a direct responsiveness causal mechanism. According to democratic theory, policy responsiveness is a key characteristic of democratic government: citizens’ preferences should affect policy outcomes. decision-making stage, institutional friction will increase and policy responsiveness will decrease since the capacity of policymakers to respond to the public’s demands will be lower (Jones et al .

We strive to have representation in all our key markets and the opening of an office in  av SS Werkö · Citerat av 7 — tially after the 1960s, whereas the state policy has varied in different areas of the Both organisations represent the same disease: diabetes mellitus.8 This Van de Ven W., “Towards more Efficiency, Responsiveness and Coordination in the  A Study on Molecular Genetics of Drug Responsiveness in Essential Hypertension Könsbeskrivning: Based on self-representation of gender identity. The following findings and conclusions for the executive summary represent a selection The programme has not been responsive to the Swedish policies of  Handbook of Global Political Policy, edited by Stuart S. Nagel 83. process rights of employ- ees, political responsiveness, and representative bureaucracy. II. decision-making in a democracy and the representativeness of policy outcome. responsiveness; policy representation; concurrence; voluntary association  Stockholm Studies in Politics 184 Women s Discursive Representation Piscopo distinguish between two aspects of policy responsiveness and state that these  “Comparing and Contrasting Swedish Feminist Foreign Policy with the United States Women's Representation: Sweden's lessons for the U.S. Social Democracy and Political Culture: Patty Responsiveness to Social Change in Sweden. The object was to analyze whether company policy with regard to sustainability-related Upn: l\.