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• W2271114795 abstract "There is hardly any political actor that has come under more severe scrutiny and critique in contemporary democracies than political parties. Underlying of much of this critique is the notion that political parties no longer fulfil their central role in representative democracies: to represent the interests of their supporters. While the process of representation has various stages that pose different demands for parties, the first step – of making sure that there is a high degree of congruence between parties’ and party supporters’ pre-electoral positions – is arguably the foundation of the whole process. If parties and their specific supporters do not match ideologically in the run-up to an election, parties are – logically – not able to represent their supporters’ positions in parliament or government.I investigate the charge of an increasing disparity between parties and their supporters by employing an innovative measure of the quality of congruence. For the first time, this measure makes a single left-right party position comparable to the whole distribution of party supporters’ left-right positions. In order to achieve this goal, I create a theoretical distribution of a party’s left-right positions over a point estimate and compare this distribution with that of the party’s supporters. I employ this measure to a unique data set that matches party positions from the Manifesto Project's data set (former CMP) to voter positions taken from survey data (Eurobarometer and CSES) for Western European countries, resulting in data for 709 parties in elections between 1973 and 2009.The analysis explores whether certain parties show better congruence than others and why that might be the case. On the level of parties, I find that the parties belonging to the traditional Western European party families create the highest congruence with their supporters and larger as well as more right parties perform better than small and left parties. On systemic level, I find that the electoral system does not have an effect on congruence, which goes against much of the received wisdom in the representation literature (Powell 2000) but confirms newer findings by authors like Golder and Stramski (2010)." @default.
• W2271114795 created "2016-06-24" @default.
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• W2271114795 date "2013-08-21" @default.
• W2271114795 modified "2023-09-23" @default.
• W2271114795 title "Are Political Parties Failing? An Investigation into the Quality of Representation in Western Europe" @default.
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