Die Policy-Bilanz der Regierung Faymann I. Ein Test der Mandatstheorie

Praprotnik, Katrin

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“…Addressing these issues, future studies could understand mandate responsiveness not only in terms of pledge fulfillment but also in terms of actions in line with a mandate. Especially when evaluating pledge fulfillment by opposition parties (Artés and Bustos, 2008; Kostadinova, 2013; Praprotnik, 2015; Royed, 1996; Thomson, 2001), it seems plausible to take politicians’ behavior in general into account (e.g. legislative initiatives or voting behavior in parliament).…”

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“…It is almost impossible to know whether a government party managed to fulfill its status quo pledge because it acted on behalf of the mandate or because the preferred result has not been challenged by someone else. Moreover, a high percentage of fulfilled status quo pledges made by opposition parties even points to the second reasoning (Praprotnik, 2015).…”

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Jurisdiction, time, and money

Praprotnik

2016

Party Politics

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The present article examines the fulfillment of election pledges. More specifically, it focuses on the effect of resources (jurisdiction, time, and money) on the parties’ abilities to fulfill their promises. Based on the case of Austria (1990–2013), the analyses cover almost 1700 pledges made in the run-up to six national elections. The multivariate models show that resources have an impact on a government’s policy outcome. The chances of pledge fulfillment decrease if the Austrian Länder is involved in the policy-making process. Furthermore, while higher levels of pledge fulfillment are associated with regularly ended legislative periods, snap elections reduce the amount of fulfilled pledges. Finally, the likelihood of pledge fulfillment increases in times of stronger economic growth. Especially pledges to expand government spending are more likely to be acted upon when the economy performs well.

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Jurisdiction, time, and money

Praprotnik

2016

Party Politics

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“…Based on the comparison of the results obtained with the unweighted data and the two weighting methods (internal and external saliency weights), the paper discusses how VAAs should be designed in order to provide for a meaningful basis to measure party positions for political scientists. This is of relevance not merely to scholars of party politics who may, as for instance in the Austrian context, want to use information about party positions to analyse party competition and coalition building (Müller and Jenny 2000; Müller and Fallend 2004;Dolezal et al 2014) or pledge fulfilment in coalition agreements (Schermann andEnnser-Jedenastik 2014a, 2014b;Praprotnik 2015). The results can also help to provide voters with advice that is more closely attuned to the party space in their countries as it is constituted by parties' positions and issue saliences.…”

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Mapping the Austrian political spectrum with the help of VAAs

Jäckle

König

2019

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This paper uses data from the Austrian Voting Advice Application (VAA) wahlkabine.at to locate parties in policy spaces for the 2006, 2008, 2013 and 2017 national elections. It formulates an approach that combines positional information from the VAA data with information about issue saliences that stems from the VAA itself as well as from manifestos coded by the regularly conducted Austrian National Election Study. The VAA-inherent and the external weights serve to calibrate party policy spaces that underlie the VAA data. The paper depicts the Austrian political party space by means of a two-dimensional multidimensional scaling (MDS) map, and furthermore assesses the usefulness of the two weighting procedures. The findings suggest that the use of the internal weights cannot make much of a difference in the present form. In contrast, the external weights not only alter the structure of the party space but also enhance the confidence in the results for substantial reasons.

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Mandate Slippage, Good and Bad: Making (Normative) Sense of Pledge Fulfillment

Sebők

2016

Intersections

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Intersections. EEJSP 2(1): 123-152. DOI: 10.17356/ieejsp.v2i1.131 http://intersections.tk.mta.hu AbstractDespite the substantive findings of existing research, the electoral mandate is still an elusive category in representation theory and empirical political science. The article offers a conceptual framework that promises to properly evaluate mandate fulfillment in general, and pledge fulfillment in particular from the standpoint of the normative theory of representation. In this framework the non-fulfillment of pledges is not necessarily bad for representation since mandate slippage, or the gradual process of abandoning the mandate in the post-election phase, may come in both bad and good forms. The proposed framework also develops an empirical research agenda for measuring the causes of bad mandates and mandate slippage by relying and expanding on the toolkit of empirical pledge research. Outcome oriented pledges serve as a prime example of bad mandates, whereas agency shirking is a major cause of bad mandate slippage.

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Die Policy-Bilanz der Regierung Faymann I. Ein Test der Mandatstheorie

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Jurisdiction, time, and money

Jurisdiction, time, and money

Mapping the Austrian political spectrum with the help of VAAs

Mandate Slippage, Good and Bad: Making (Normative) Sense of Pledge Fulfillment

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