2022
DOI: 10.1111/spsr.12519
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Congruence in Proportional Representation Systems: Non‐Economic Issue Salience and Coalition Formation

Abstract: This article contributes to our understanding of democratic representation by analyzing government congruence -the gap between the positions of the government and the median voter -within proportional representation systems. Analyzing elections in non-post-communist, democratic OECD countries in the post-war period until 2014, we argue and show that the salience of non-economic issues such as national way of life and migration led to ideological incongruence indirectly through its effect on government formatio… Show more

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