How Conceptualisation Matters for Representation: The Case of Migrantised Groups There is wide agreement in the literature that migrantised groups are underrepresented in political institutions. Who belongs to a migrantised group and the extent to which (under)representation is...

In this fascinating new article, Miriam Hartlapp, Maura Kratz and Marie Michel explore the conceptualisation of migrantised groups and the implications for representation. Go have a read!

#Representation #Politics #Migration

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In our latest article, Szymon Andrzejewski
@SzAndrzejewski explores common citizen vouchers as a new method of financing politics and a tool for preserving critical democracy infrastructure.

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#Politics #Democracy #Representation

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Representing Preferences through Multi-Option Referendums: The Impact of Ballot Question Design on Voting Behaviour and Outcomes Referendums can democratically empower citizens, but the dominant binary design is criticised for inadequately representing voters’ genuine preferences. Multi-option referendums offer an alternativ...

Interested in referendum design?

Our latest paper explores the impact of ballot question design on voting behaviour, authored by Charlotte C. L. Wagenaar, @TomWGvdMeer and Kristof T. E. Jacobs

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#Politics #Referendums #Representation

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Tweeting the Mandate? Local Newspaper Sharing and the Mandate Divide in MPs’ Social Media Use This study examines how different types of electoral mandates in the German MMP system affect the way MPs engage in geographic representation on Twitter (X). Building on research on the mandate div...

Our latest paper by Christian Bohlen examines how different types of electoral mandates in the German MMP system affect the way MPs engage in geographic representation on Twitter (X)

#Politics #Representation

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Is Representation Influence? Electoral Systems and the Radical Right Does proportional representation (PR) increase the influence of radical right politics? Most of the current literature exploring the relationship between electoral systems and the radical right arg...

ICYMI
Isabella O'Brien explores representation, influence, electoral systems and the radical right.

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bit.ly/4nTJrUg #RadicalRight #Influence #ElectoralSystems

Varieties of Citizen Engagement? The Institutional Design of Deliberative Innovations in Europe in Comparative Perspective This study examines the institutional characteristics of deliberative mini-publics across various European democracies, utilising Lijphart’s, A. (2012. Patterns of democracy: Government forms and p...

One of our latest articles explores the varieties of citizen engagement and the institutional design of deliberative innovations in Europe by João Moniz, Roberto Falanga & José Duarte Ribeiro

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Political Representation: A Typology and Synthesis There is a vast array of different terms applied to diverse aspects of political representation. We provide a review of 51 different terms which we discuss under three broad types: fundamental (or ...

Hot off the press!

Check out our new article by Keith Dowding & Adriano Giuliani @ouranu.bsky.social

From reviewing 51 different terms, they find "most conceptions of #representation are logically & empirically compatible with each other"

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Very happy to see this paper by my PhD student Leonard Häfner published in @repjournal.bsky.social
Using data from legislator surveys we conducted in Germany and the US, he shows how legislators' conceptions of democracy affect their representation styles.

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Ballot Box Battles: Sex, Ethnicity and the Electoral Performance of UK Candidates The UK Parliament has become increasingly diverse in recent years. Yet it remains far from being descriptively representative of the population. This study investigates how women and ethnic minorit...

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"Ballot Box Battles: Sex, Ethnicity and the Electoral Performance of UK Candidates"

Kaat Smets and Sofia Collingnon explore how the sex and ethnicity of a candidate’s opponent influence #vote share.

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Exploring Electoral Discrimination Through an Ethics of Office Accountability Electoral discrimination (ED) in democratic settings occurs when majority voters, influenced by their personal, cultural, or religious biases, favour majority candidates, consequently diminishing s...

In our latest paper, Emanuela Ceva and Nenad Stojanović explore electoral discrimination when majority voters favour majority candidates, consequently diminishing support for minority candidates.

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How to Make Small Beautiful: The Promise of Democratic Innovations Small states are on average more likely to be democracies and it is often assumed that democracy functions better in small polities. ‘Small is beautiful’, proponents say. Yet, empirical scholarship...

Interested in democratic innovations? Then check out this new paper!

Christoph Niessen and Wouter Veenendaalb explore their promise and pitfalls @unileiden.bsky.social‬ ‪@uantwerpen.be‬

#Politics #Democractic #Innovation #Representation

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Technocrats Instead of Political Parties? Synthetic Control Approach to the Effect of Technocratic Government on the Government Trust When facing a dilemma between the responsibility to formulate reasonable policies and responsiveness to the public will, political parties frequently delegate policy decisions to technocrats. Since...

Delighted to share our paper, "Technocrats Instead of Political Parties? Synthetic Control Approach to the Effect of Technocratic Government on the Government Trust" -with Tatsuya Iseki and Serika Atsumi - is now out in Representation @repjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reexamining the Supply and Demand Framework for Explaining Women's Descriptive Representation* What explains cross-national variation in the level of women's descriptive representation? Theoretically, scholars have long recognised that women's descriptive representation is determined by both...

In our new paper, Kostanca Dhima reexamines the supply and demand framework for explaining women's descriptive representation

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@georgiastate.bsky.social #Representation #Politics

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Check out our latest paper!
By @tito-labo.bsky.social‬, Tatsuya Iseki & Serika Atsumi - "Technocrats Instead of Political Parties? Synthetic Control Approach to the Effect of Technocratic Government on the Government Trust"
#Representation #Trust #Government
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Campaign Personalisation at the 2023 Estonian Parliamentary Election Parliamentary candidates face choices about the nature of their electoral campaign. Among else, they must strike a balance between promoting their party’s image and their own personal appeal, and h...

New article!

Siim Trumm @nottspolitics.bsky.social explores campaign personalisation at the 2023 Estonian Parliamentary Election. He finds that candidates’ campaigns remained broadly balanced between emphasising themselves and their party.

#Estonia #Politics

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Does it Matter if You’re Left or Right? Studying Left- and Right-Wing Populist Citizens’ Support for Deliberative Mini-Publics Populist citizens have a remarkable democratic profile: they are democratic idealists that are dissatisfied with how democracy works in practice. It stands to reason that they would be supportive o...

NEW ARTICLE! Does it matter if you're left or right?

@KindtRosa explores left- and right-wing populist citizen support for deliberative mini-publics
@radboudpol.bsky.social

#populism #minipublics #politics #representation

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Mapping Spanish Political Landscape on Migration: A Sentiment and Topic Analysis of Manifestos Ahead of the 2024 EU Election This study examines the electoral programmes of Spain’s four main national parties (PSOE, PP, VOX, and SUMAR) and Von der Leyen’s discourse after being re-elected as President of the European Commi...

New article!

Juan Carlos Martín & Alessandro Indelicato examine the electoral programmes of Spain’s four main national parties & Von der Leyen’s discourse regarding immigration, asylum seekers, and refugees

#Politics #Spain #immigration #asylum

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Terrific to see this new research note out w/ @djsimmons.bsky.social @isaachale.bsky.social in @repjournal.bsky.social

Does it Matter if You’re Left or Right? Studying Left- and Right-Wing Populist Citizens’ Support for Deliberative Mini-Publics Populist citizens have a remarkable democratic profile: they are democratic idealists that are dissatisfied with how democracy works in practice. It stands to reason that they would be supportive o...

🚨Publication Alert 🚨
Rosa Kindt with a new article titled 'Does it matter if you're left or right? Studying left- and right-wing populist citizens' support for deliberative mini-publics' out now in @repjournal.bsky.social - check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Mapping Spanish Political Landscape on Migration: A Sentiment and Topic Analysis of Manifestos Ahead of the 2024 EU Election This study examines the electoral programmes of Spain’s four main national parties (PSOE, PP, VOX, and SUMAR) and Von der Leyen’s discourse after being re-elected as President of the European Commi...

New article!

Juan Carlos Martín & Alessandro Indelicato examine the electoral programmes of Spain’s four main national parties & Von der Leyen’s discourse regarding immigration, asylum seekers, and refugees

#Politics #Spain #immigration #asylum

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A Simple Condorcet Voting Method for Final Four Elections An obstacle to the implementation of Condorcet voting methods in political elections is the perceived complexity of these methods. In this paper, we propose a simple Condorcet voting method for use...

NEW PAPER!

An obstacle to Condorcet voting methods in political elections is the perceived complexity of these methods. In this paper, Wesley H. Holliday proposes a simple Condorcet voting method for use in a Final Four election

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Uncontested Seats Phenomenon: How Too Small Electoral Districts Destroy Local Democracies* An uncontested election in which only one candidate for a seat occurs may be seen as an ‘aberration’ of democracy. Without an electoral campaign and war chest, the result is a foregone conclusion –...

NEW!

A new study by Stępień & Pierzgalski suggests that single-member districts may reduce electoral competition more than previously thought.

#Democracy #PoliticalScience #UncontestedSeats #ElectoralSystems

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NEW!
How do interest group endorsements shape Americans' policy preferences? In a new study, Algara, Hale & Simmons find that pro-reform messages from interest groups increase support for voting rights legislation - but only among Democrats
@algaraca.bsky.social #PoliticalScience #PublicOpinion

Accidental Representation – The Reconfiguration of Representation through Social Media Social media has been recognized for its empowering potential in terms of participation, less so in terms of representation. Social media is said to be essentially a post-representative sphere beca...

ICYMI In a new paper, Tobias Lappy
@leuphana shows how the simultaneous empowerment of authors and audiences in the interactive and participative culture on social media produces a distinct logic of #representation
#socialmedia #politics

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The Downfall of Boris Johnson: Analysing Patterns of Opinion among Conservative Parliamentarians in the Confidence Motion and Mass Resignations This article provides the first systematic analysis of the confidence motion against the Conservative Party leadership of Boris Johnson in June 2022 and the mass ministerial resignations in July. I...

Another one of our most-read articles from the past year explores the downfall of Boris Johnson by Oliver Booth.

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#BorisJohnson #Politics #Representation

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Hybrid Democratic Innovations: If and When They Impact Decision-Making Increased citizen participation through democratic innovation is an increasingly popular response to the dual challenges of complex global problems and democratic malaise. Hybrid democratic innovat...

Our most read article from the past 12 months is by Krista Ettlinger & Ank Michels and explores hybrid democractic innovations. Go check it out!

#MostRead #Representation #democracy #innovations

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Accidental Representation – The Reconfiguration of Representation through Social Media Social media has been recognized for its empowering potential in terms of participation, less so in terms of representation. Social media is said to be essentially a post-representative sphere beca...

Our latest paper, by Tobias Lappy, @leuphana.bsky.social, shows how the simultaneous empowerment of authors and audiences in the interactive and participative culture on social media produces a distinct logic of #representation
#socialmedia

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This is great! Wow - 1908. Such a long history. Thanks for sharing @davidfarrell-ucd.bsky.social

German Politics and Elections Explore the article collection: German Politics and Elections. Published in Representation.

After the German elections, and while they still negotiate a coalition, Representation's editors, ‪@sajuria.com‬ and @drspguerra.bsky.social, have prepared a special collection of @repjournal.bsky.social
recent articles on German politics.

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German Politics and Elections Explore the article collection: German Politics and Elections. Published in Representation.

After the recent German elections, and while they still negotiate to agree on a coalition, we (more specifically the great @drspguerra.bsky.social) have prepared a special collection of @repjournal.bsky.social with recent articles on German politics
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