RepresentationPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2022.2158920
Jane Suiter, A. Deligiaouri
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue From Mini-publics to Mass Publics","authors":"Jane Suiter, A. Deligiaouri","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2022.2158920","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2158920","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent years have seen a proliferation of experiments in deliberative democracy, with much focus on the internal workings and throughput legitimacy of such innovations as mini-publics. The research on the links between such mini-publics and the public is still in its infancy and there is a strong debate around the legitimacy of extending the outcomes of small-scale deliberation to the public. This Special Issue addresses the questions of legitimacy mainly from two broad perspectives; the input and the output legitimacy while some papers provide insights on throughput legitimacy as well. Input refers to the representativeness of participants from demographic, attitudinal and intersectional points of view. Output refers to whether the mini-public outputs reflect what the broader electorate would think and how representatives and policymakers deal with their outputs. The papers provide both theoretical and empirical discussion on participants' representativeness in mini-publics and politicians' potential involvement as well as issues of the whole process and how citizens perceive the legitimacy of mini-publics. Analysis also focuses on issues of attitudinal congruence of participants and its importance while other papers examine the impact of mini-publics to the wider electorate by also considering the role the preferences of policymakers have in the whole deliberative process. Theoretical contributions in this special issue analyze the theoretical implications of these democratic innovations for our understanding of democracy and the way forward.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"59 1","pages":"1 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42193703","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 : 2022-12-22DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2022.2158919
Bram Wauters, Nicolas Bouteca, Anna Kern, Audrey Vandeleene
{"title":"What’s on a Party Member’s Mind? Voting Motives in Competitive Party Leadership Elections","authors":"Bram Wauters, Nicolas Bouteca, Anna Kern, Audrey Vandeleene","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2022.2158919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2158919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47606396","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 : 2022-11-27DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2022.2146166
Vicente Faúndez Caicedo, Patricio D. Navia
{"title":"The Fulfillment of Presidential Promises Made While in Office. The Case of Chile, 1990–2017","authors":"Vicente Faúndez Caicedo, Patricio D. Navia","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2022.2146166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2146166","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43171443","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 : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2022.2146165
Sheetal Sheena Sookrajowa, J. Narsoo, Linganaden Murday
{"title":"The Impact of Consociationalism on Female Political Representation: The Case Study of Mauritius","authors":"Sheetal Sheena Sookrajowa, J. Narsoo, Linganaden Murday","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2022.2146165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2146165","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45629060","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 : 2022-10-19DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2022.2133001
Mari S. Helliesen
{"title":"Unequal Representation of Women and Youth on Climate Policy Issues","authors":"Mari S. Helliesen","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2022.2133001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2133001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Women and youth support climate policies to a larger extent than their counterparts, and they are underrepresented in formal politics. This paper explores whether descriptively underrepresented groups also are substantively underrepresented on climate issues. I study issue congruence between the public and elected representatives on climate policies in Norway and find high levels of overall congruence. However, representatives are less congruent with women and youth than they are with men and older age groups, linking descriptive and substantive representation.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42696044","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 : 2022-10-18DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2022.2133003
D. McCune, Lori McCune
{"title":"Does the Choice of Preferential Voting Method Matter? An Empirical Study Using Ranked Choice Elections in the United States","authors":"D. McCune, Lori McCune","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2022.2133003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2133003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43560106","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 : 2022-10-02DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2022.2134190
Anne Küppers, M. Reiser
{"title":"Ideological Extremism or Far-Right Attitudes? The Role of Ideology for COVID-19 Scepticism","authors":"Anne Küppers, M. Reiser","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2022.2134190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2134190","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT COVID-19 sceptics view the virus as harmless (i.e., not worse than a casual flu). While political orientation appears to play a crucial role in developing these sceptical positions, previous research showed inconsistent findings on the relationship between COVID-19 related beliefs and ideological orientation: Whereas various studies find close ties between far-right attitudes and COVID-19 related beliefs, other research suggests that sceptical views are linked to extremism on both ends of the ideological spectrum. We contribute to this debate by investigating the underlying ideological foundations of COVID-19 scepticism on a more fine-grained conceptualisation and measurement of ideological orientation and by focusing on a case with a prevalence of support for parties at both ideological fringes. Using data from a representative survey conducted in the East German region of Thuringia in autumn 2020, we show a strong significant link between far-right political attitudes and COVID-19 scepticism, as well as a weaker link between extremism on both sides of the ideological spectrum and scepticism.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"58 1","pages":"481 - 499"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43323199","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 : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2022.2111596
J. Draege
{"title":"Narrow Responses to Social Movements: Evidence from Turkey’s Gezi Protests","authors":"J. Draege","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2022.2111596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2111596","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research on the outcomes of major protests indicates that opposition parties tend to respond with a combination of support and negligence. This article suggests a novel mechanism through which opposition parties maintain this balancing act. Based on an original dataset of interventions in the Turkish Parliament around the 2013 Gezi Protests, I argue that representatives from two left-wing opposition parties supported the movement, but in narrow and even contradictory ways. The Kemalist opposition party CHP emphasised identity markers of the activists but downplayed the issues raised in the protests, while the pro-Kurdish BDP did the opposite. I argue that such narrow issue-centered or actor-centered responses reflected a strategy to simultaneously placate core supporters – Turkish nationalists and Kurdish voters – while giving the impression of being fully supportive of the movement as a whole. One implication of this study is that broad-based movements may be a mixed blessing for democratisation, as they enable opposition parties to cherry-pick their favourite aspects of the protests. Parties may explicitly support a movement but simultaneously deflect attention away from the core issues protesters raise or amplify a narrow set of their pre-established positions.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42177664","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 : 2022-09-14DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2022.2111597
João V. Guedes-Neto
{"title":"Bureaucrats as Legislators: The Conditional Roots of Workplace Descriptive Representation","authors":"João V. Guedes-Neto","doi":"10.1080/00344893.2022.2111597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2022.2111597","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The failure of political parties to adequately voice the preferences of their constituents leads voters to look for alternative heuristics when selecting their favourite candidates. Descriptive representation is one of them. Yet, most scholars focus only on the social characteristics of representatives. Is it also possible to talk about a workplace descriptive representation? In this paper, I rely on a longitudinal survey conducted with 2,527 legislators from 18 Latin American countries to assess whether the preferences of those representatives with a background in the public service differ from those held by other congressmen. The results show that former public employees adequately represent their professional group only when they self-place in the left or highly identify with the civil service. Yet, when they do not, their preference for the maximisation of the state’s budget and power is even lower than that of rightist legislators who have never worked for government.","PeriodicalId":35158,"journal":{"name":"Representation","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45990123","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}