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This chapter outlines the great diversity in the way policy congruence is studied, in terms of who the representatives are, whether congruence measured on a single ideological dimension, for specific issues or as issue priority, and whether one looks at the entire distribution of preferences of both represented and In this book, a group of leading scholars analyzes the functioning of modern democracies by focusing on two basic principles: political representation and policy congruence. Drawing on recent survey data from a variety of national and international research projects, they demonstrate how political representation works and mostly leads to a fair Style of representation is defined at the party level as the proportion of representatives within parties who are partisans, delegates or trustees. Policy congruence refers to how close on the left–right scale the mean position of a party as placed by its candidates is compared to that of party voters. The article concludes that where there are higher proportions of trustees within parties, there is a greater degree of policy congruence, whereas a higher proportion of partisans results in Policy congruence between parties and their voters conceptualised as how close parties and their voters are on the left-right as an objective outcome of representation.

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Drawing on recent survey data from a variety of national and international research projects, they demonstrate how political representation works and mostly leads to a fair degree of policy congruence between citizens and their representatives. Policy congruence has been considered as one of the main linkage mechanism between political elites and citizens. Further, in normative terms some degree of policy congruence is considered as desirable goal for representative democracies.

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in CVD Eijk, S Banducci, M Franklin, S Hobolt, M Marsh, H Giebler & WVD Brug (Hrsg.), An Audit of Democracy in the EU. European University Institute, Florence, S. 153-174. We examine policy congruence between voters and candidates, utilizing the candidate and voter surveys of the European Election Study 2009. First, we demonstrate that policy preferences of candidates and voters are constrained by three separate policy dimensions.

The common assumption is that if both conditions are met, the electoral process will lead to policy congruence between a particular parliamentary party and the voters who voted for it. However, as argued elsewhere (Thomassen 1994, 1999), these two Research on policy congruence has by and large concentrated on govern- ment parties (for example, Huber and Powell, 1994; Blais and Bodet, 2006).
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Opinion Congruence and Descriptive Representation Opinion congruence, or elite-mass alignment in ideology and issue opinions, is an important factor in democratic representation. Certainly, substantive representation—elected officials acting on behalf of T1 - How Democracy Works: Political Representation and Policy Congruence in Modern Societies. A2 - Rosema, Martin. A2 - Denters, Bas. A2 - Aarts, Kees. N1 - Ter gelegenheid v/h emeritaat van Jacques Thomassen.

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Final-ly, we have failed to demonstrate a positive correlation between quality of de-mocracy and levels of congruence. First, it demonstrates that policy preferences of candidates and voters are constrained by three separate policy dimensions. Second, it shows that the quality of representation is high in terms of left/right, the main dimension of conflict in European politics, but lower on … European Parliament Elections and Political Representation: Policy Congruence between Voters and Parties Rory Costello University of Limerick rory.costello@ul.ie Jacques Thomassen University of Twente j.j.a.thomassen@utwente.nl Martin Rosema University of Twente m.rosema@utwente.nl Abstract First, it demonstrates that policy preferences of candidates and voters are constrained by three separate policy dimensions. Second, it shows that the quality of representation is high in terms of left/right, the main dimension of conflict in European politics, but lower on … Representation : opinion-policy congruence in the U.S. Senate, 1989-1990 Item Preview 2020-02-01 Measuring representation: policy congruence Part of book or chapter of book All authors Louwerse, T.P.; Andeweg, R.B. Editor(s) Cotta, M.; Russo, F. Date 2020-12-08 Title of host publication Elgar Handbooks in Political Science; Research Handbook on Political Representation Pages 368

In this book, a group of leading scholars analyzes the functioning of modern democracies by focusing on two basic principles: political representation and policy congruence. Drawing on recent survey data from a variety of national and international research projects, they demonstrate how political representation works and mostly leads to a fair degree of policy congruence between citizens Policy Congruence and American State Elites: Descriptive Representation versus Electoral Accountability.