Add to ORKGWe confront two obstacles that have been blocking passageways to understanding democratic representation. One is ambiguity when trying to read popular majority policy positions from elections. The other is identifying representative acts of governance as voice rather than policy. Our arguments and analysis show that when the two are addressed simultaneously we gain important insights into how democracies govern from the middle, near a position of a median citizen, while responding to non-centrist tendencies of median and modal voters
Much of the literature on political representation provides empirical evidence that elections succes...
<p>Few studies have analysed the effect of political engagement on legislators’ responsiveness. This...
Whose preferences determine the direction of government policy? Is it the political centre, formally...
Popular control over public policy is a characteristic of contemporary democracies. That is the conc...
Democracy is often described as a system in which a majority of electors choose one out of a number ...
Abstract. Michael McDonald and Ian Budge have recently advanced an interpretation of democratic gove...
is the median voter paradigm a reasonable guide for policy choices in a representative democracy?
In practice, democracies privilege plurality parties. Theories of the demo-social choice theory wond...
Democracy is supposed to effect the popular will. But is this best expressed by the party with the l...
Representative democracy translates the preferences of the electorate into policy outcomes. Individu...
We develop and test a model of accurate representation of median voters in two-party systems with di...
It is shown in this paper that the Median Voter Theorem lacks robustness in the sense that if voters...
Some studies of policy representation test hypotheses about the relationship between citizens' views...
American politics scholars have long distinguished between legislature-level “collective” and legisl...
This chapter examines the determinants of feelings of electoral representation in crossnational pers...
Much of the literature on political representation provides empirical evidence that elections succes...
<p>Few studies have analysed the effect of political engagement on legislators’ responsiveness. This...
Whose preferences determine the direction of government policy? Is it the political centre, formally...
Popular control over public policy is a characteristic of contemporary democracies. That is the conc...
Democracy is often described as a system in which a majority of electors choose one out of a number ...
Abstract. Michael McDonald and Ian Budge have recently advanced an interpretation of democratic gove...
is the median voter paradigm a reasonable guide for policy choices in a representative democracy?
In practice, democracies privilege plurality parties. Theories of the demo-social choice theory wond...
Democracy is supposed to effect the popular will. But is this best expressed by the party with the l...
Representative democracy translates the preferences of the electorate into policy outcomes. Individu...
We develop and test a model of accurate representation of median voters in two-party systems with di...
It is shown in this paper that the Median Voter Theorem lacks robustness in the sense that if voters...
Some studies of policy representation test hypotheses about the relationship between citizens' views...
American politics scholars have long distinguished between legislature-level “collective” and legisl...
This chapter examines the determinants of feelings of electoral representation in crossnational pers...
Much of the literature on political representation provides empirical evidence that elections succes...
<p>Few studies have analysed the effect of political engagement on legislators’ responsiveness. This...
Whose preferences determine the direction of government policy? Is it the political centre, formally...