2021
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-021-09716-8
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Issue Voting and Government Responsiveness to Policy Preferences

Abstract: Does citizens’ voting behavior influence government policy? Conventional models of democratic representation assume that issue voting by citizens induces government responsiveness to citizens’ preferences. However, existing research has not tested whether voting behavior makes any difference to responsiveness. We present a theoretical model of issue voting and policy responsiveness. We leverage Swedish election study panels and a corresponding dataset on policy implementation to empirically evaluate the influe… Show more

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“…So, do we find unequal responsiveness elsewhere? Individual country studies from Germany (Elsässer, Hense, and Schäfer 2021); Denmark (Elkjaer 2020); the Netherlands (Schakel 2021; Schakel and van der Pas 2020); Norway (Mathisen, 2022); Sweden (Guntermann and Persson 2021;Persson 2021;Persson forthcoming); Spain (Lupu and Tirado Castro, 2022); and EU-level institutions (Lefkofridi and Giger 2020) point to similar patterns of unequal responsiveness. But, as said earlier, this research area lacks crosscountry studies that map the terrain in many countries across a range of issues.…”
Section: State Of the Research Fieldmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…So, do we find unequal responsiveness elsewhere? Individual country studies from Germany (Elsässer, Hense, and Schäfer 2021); Denmark (Elkjaer 2020); the Netherlands (Schakel 2021; Schakel and van der Pas 2020); Norway (Mathisen, 2022); Sweden (Guntermann and Persson 2021;Persson 2021;Persson forthcoming); Spain (Lupu and Tirado Castro, 2022); and EU-level institutions (Lefkofridi and Giger 2020) point to similar patterns of unequal responsiveness. But, as said earlier, this research area lacks crosscountry studies that map the terrain in many countries across a range of issues.…”
Section: State Of the Research Fieldmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…It is a metric that assesses how well a system works in non-health areas, such as fulfilling or failing to meet a population's expectations for preventive, care, and non-personal services. 5 Responsiveness can be regarded from two perspectives: first, the consumer of the healthcare system, with more responsiveness seen as a means of gaining customers. Second, responsiveness has to do with safeguarding patients' rights to adequate and timely care.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In any democratic polity, the government's responsiveness to the public's policy preferences is an enduring issue (Barberá et al, 2019;Guntermann & Persson, 2021;Im et al, 2013;Löfgren et al, 2018). Even though China is a one-party state, the lack of public engagement in policy issues, such as family planning programs, may still affect citizen support, subsequently affecting the legitimacy of the government policy (Wang & Chen, 2016).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%