RepresentationPub Date : 2021-08-29DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1964585
Isaac Hale
{"title":"Electoral Reform & Strategic Voting in Chilean Legislative Elections","authors":"Isaac Hale","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2021.1964585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2021.1964585","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper examines the effects of Chile's 2015 electoral reform, which increased the magnitude of districts in Chile's lower legislative chamber from two to between three and eight. This increase in district magnitude allows for a convenient ‘natural experiment’: post-reform voters should strategically vote at lower levels than pre-reform voters. I find strong evidence that voters have responded to Chile's electoral reform by engaging in less party-level strategic voting. However, I surprisingly find no evidence that the reform has decreased strategic voting for Chile's pre-electoral pacts. This study demonstrates that Chile's electoral reform is already affecting voter behaviour and is doing so in line with theoretical expectations.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"58 1","pages":"525 - 545"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42684458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationPub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1950040
A. Deligiaouri, Jane Suiter
{"title":"Oscillating Between Representation and Participation in Deliberative Fora and the Question of Legitimacy: Can ‘Hybrid Representative Democracy’ be the Remedy?","authors":"A. Deligiaouri, Jane Suiter","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2021.1950040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2021.1950040","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper revisits the core concept of representation in light of democratic innovations and more specifically in the context of minipublics. We disentangle how representativeness is currently addressed within the minipublics’ literature and provide an in-depth conceptual analysis of how emerging modes of representation and participation can be reconciled with(in) traditional norms of representative democracy. This paper scrutinises and emphasises issues concerning legitimacy and representation in minipublics and the potential of scaling up their outcomes to the larger public. Acknowledging that neither election nor sortition can fully satisfy all democratic values we propose an interpretive path and a framework of a ‘hybrid’ representative democracy that can accommodate a multi modal representation which combines both electoral and sortition driven representation and can shift the conceptual boundaries of representation in modern democracies.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"59 1","pages":"137 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00344893.2021.1950040","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43011080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationPub Date : 2021-07-28DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1954075
Rebecca Peach
{"title":"The Politics of Losing: Trump, the Klan, and the Mainstreaming of Resentment","authors":"Rebecca Peach","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2021.1954075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2021.1954075","url":null,"abstract":"Since Trump's electoral success in 2016, the publishing industry has turned out an incredible quantity of books about the United States of America's 45th President. Indeed, the mass of works on thi...","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"58 1","pages":"633 - 640"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00344893.2021.1954075","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43403728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationPub Date : 2021-07-18DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1955737
Alona O. Dolinsky
{"title":"The reshaping of West European party politics: agenda-setting and party competition in comparative perspective","authors":"Alona O. Dolinsky","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2021.1955737","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2021.1955737","url":null,"abstract":"How has the issue content of West European party systems developed in the past few decades? Have parties indeed shifted attention away from ‘economic’ issues to ‘new politics’ issues? Which issues ...","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"59 1","pages":"357 - 363"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00344893.2021.1955737","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43350196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationPub Date : 2021-07-06DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1950041
Alona O. Dolinsky
{"title":"What Determines Parties’ Choice of Incumbent-Renomination Methods? the Case of the UK Labour Party, 1979–2019","authors":"Alona O. Dolinsky","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2021.1950041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2021.1950041","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The UK Labour Party changed its incumbent-renomination process six times between 1979 and 2019. Using Labour as an influential case, I propose a two-part theory explaining parties’ choice of incumbent-renomination methods: who controls the party, and whether they believe MPs are bound by dictates of the parliamentary leadership or the extra-parliamentary party. Renomination is central to intra-party candidate selection affecting the functioning of parties, legislatures, governments and oppositions. Findings expand our understanding of intra-party organisational dynamics and incumbent-renomination processes.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"58 1","pages":"585 - 601"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00344893.2021.1950041","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48640873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationPub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1960590
Matteo Bonotti, D. Weinstock
{"title":"Introduction: Parties, Electoral Systems and Political Theory","authors":"Matteo Bonotti, D. Weinstock","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2021.1960590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2021.1960590","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years, several political theorists have restored and defended the central role played by political parties and partisanship in liberal democracies, highlighting the positive contribution that they can make to democratic politics. Little attention, in this growing body of literature, has been paid to the institutional framework in which political parties are located, and which may significantly shape the kind of party system in which individual parties and partisans operate. One of the key elements of this institutional framework is the electoral system. One question that deserves urgent attention is the following: how does electoral design affect parties and partisans’ ability to make a positive contribution to democracy? While some of the existing literature on electoral systems does engage with the normative dimensions of electoral design, very few political theorists have addressed this question. The articles in this special issue aim to fill this gap in the literature. By re-examining some of the key debates in the normative literature on parties and partisanship through the lens of electoral design, they advance both bodies of work in an original way that will help to set a new research agenda in this field.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"57 1","pages":"287 - 295"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44497529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationPub Date : 2021-06-07DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1937299
Tudi Kernalegenn, Cédric Pellen, Étienne Smith
{"title":"When Politics Abroad Turn Local. A Study of French Parties Campaigning Abroad During the 2017 French General Elections","authors":"Tudi Kernalegenn, Cédric Pellen, Étienne Smith","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2021.1937299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2021.1937299","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Through the analysis of French parties campaigning abroad during the 2017 French parliamentary elections, the paper offers a better understanding of the conduct of electoral campaigns abroad, with an emphasis on their local dimension. With its comparative focus on three very different constituencies abroad – Northern America, North-West Africa and Switzerland –, it shows how differentiated campaign strategies, rather than mere duplication of national or centralised strategies, attuned to local political dynamics and the diverse sociology of French electorates abroad are critical for electoral success.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"59 1","pages":"441 - 464"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00344893.2021.1937299","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45904574","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationPub Date : 2021-06-05DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1924245
G. Caruso, T. Teivainen
{"title":"Steps to a Theory of Non-State Representation","authors":"G. Caruso, T. Teivainen","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2021.1924245","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2021.1924245","url":null,"abstract":"Brito Vieira, Monica (ed.) Reclaiming Representation. Contemporary Advances in the Theory of Political Representation. New York and London, Routledge 2017.Castiglione, Dario and Johannes Pollak (ed...","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"58 1","pages":"325 - 338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00344893.2021.1924245","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47815767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationPub Date : 2021-06-05DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1933150
Karin Fossheim
{"title":"The Responsibility of an Audience: Assessing the Legitimacy of Non-elected Representatives in Governance Networks","authors":"Karin Fossheim","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2021.1933150","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2021.1933150","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Non-elected actors in governance networks are legitimate representatives when the constituency accepts their claims of representation. However, not all constituents have the resources to approve or oppose this representation. Consequently, I argue that the audience, often the decision-making authority, which enables non-elected actors to act as representatives has a responsibility to consider their legitimacy. Drawing on seven business and urban development networks in Norway, this article explores how the decision-making authority considers credibility, qualifications and connectedness to legitimise non-elected representatives in governance networks. Through interviews with civil servants and politicians organising and participating in the network, relevant documents and observations, this article demonstrates that the decision-making authority legitimises non-elected representatives based on credibility and qualifications rather than connectedness with the constituency. The decision-making authority believes that claims grounded in specialist expertise, self-representation and shared experiences with the constituency legitimise non-elected representatives. Similarly, truthful representatives are considered legitimate. Finally, the decision-making authority is divided with regards to how the interactive process between the non-elected representative and the constituency legitimises the content of the representation.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"58 1","pages":"211 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00344893.2021.1933150","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46372863","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
RepresentationPub Date : 2021-05-31DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2021.1931952
Lasse Thomassen
{"title":"All Claims Are Representative Claims: Response to Thomás Zicman de Barros","authors":"Lasse Thomassen","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2021.1931952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2021.1931952","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This response to Thomás Zicman de Barros argues that so-called post-representative movements do not avoid representation as speaking for. A deconstructive reading of Gayatri Spivak's distinction between Darstellung and Vertretung shows that, while they cannot be reduced to one another, they nonetheless imply one another. As a result, post-representative movements such as the 2013 Brazilian Jornadas de Junho movement do not escape representation as speaking-for.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"58 1","pages":"311 - 318"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/00344893.2021.1931952","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42162645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}