Voter–Representative Congruence in Europe: A Loss of Institutional Influence?

Autor:	Pavol Baboš, Branislav Dolný
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Unification business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Public opinion Congruence (geometry) Originality Comparative research Political science Political Science and International Relations European integration Ideology Positive economics business Social psychology media_common
Zdroj:	West European Politics. 38:1274-1304
ISSN:	1743-9655 0140-2382
DOI:	10.1080/01402382.2015.1053180
Popis:	What is the level of voter–elite congruence in Europe and how is it affected by institutions? This article presents a different conceptualisation and new data to comparative research on congruence between voters and their representatives in 15 European countries. The originality of this work is mainly in its use of the most appropriate cross-national data for the conceptualisation of congruence as a ‘many-to-many’ relationship, using for the first time a survey of representatives to replace expert and public opinion on legislators’ attitudes. The study’s results show that congruence in European countries is relatively high in terms of left–right positions and, surprisingly, even higher regarding the question of EU integration. However, while we find enough evidence to link ideological congruence to mostly electoral institutions, it seems the same factors have no relation to the European unification dimension of congruence. This indicates the different nature of congruence in both the ideological and EU in...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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