“Oh, That Is a Big Word.” MPs’ and Citizens’ Perspectives on Parliamentary Representation

Dageförde, Mirjam; Schindler, Danny

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“…It is important to note that this middle category was not read out during the interviews, and it can be assumed that legislators have more agency to diverge from the standardized format of the questions. The results thus deviate from previous studies which showed that German legislator are more likely to prefer the trustee model compared to citizens (Fälker 1991;Dageförde and Schindler 2018;Vogel 2023). Turning to the main explanatory variable, Figure 4 provides an overview of the weighted distribution of wealth groups among citizens and legislators.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Indeed, our findings provide first evidence for the German case that divergence between citizens and legislators concerns the preferred processes (see also e.g. Dageförde and Schindler 2018), which shows wealth-related patterns.…”

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confidence: 51%

“…Among legislators, party matters. For instance, we see those legislators of catch-all parties, i.e., CDU/CSU and SPD affiliates, are significantly more likely to prefer the district as a primary focus of representation (see also Dageförde and Schindler 2018;Bailer et al 2013). For the style of representation, affiliates of the AfD are more likely to emphasize the importance of responsiveness, which reflects their populist stance (e.g.…”

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confidence: 92%

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Affluence and Preferences for Democratic Representation: The Case of German Citizens and Legislators.

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In this paper, we demonstrate that economic inequality influences preferences for democratic representation, as citizens instrumentally prefer those processes that promise to be suitable for pursuing their material interests. People with low wealth favor more responsive and inclusive legislators whom they expect to take their interests more into account that are currently less seldom realized. And highly affluent people favor legislators rather to be qualified and open to particular interests, since their interests are already taken into account. This insight implies three important contributions to the research strands of unequal democracy and process preferences: First, unequal democracy is not limited to biased descriptive representation in parliament or skewed policy responsiveness but also concerns the dimension of process preferences. Second, by putting emphasis on the impact of wealth, we amend the literature on unequal democracy as well as process preferences, as studies in both strands are predominantly concerned with income, level of education, or socio-economic status. Third, we contribute to the literature on process preferences and corroborate recent findings that process preferences are not only normative but also have an instrumental dimension.

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2023

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“Oh, That Is a Big Word.” MPs’ and Citizens’ Perspectives on Parliamentary Representation

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Affluence and Preferences for Democratic Representation: The Case of German Citizens and Legislators.

Affluence and Preferences for Democratic Representation: The Case of German Citizens and Legislators.

The German Bundestag: The Legislature

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