Online Activism and Dyadic Representation: Evidence from the UK E-Petition System
Online Activism and Dyadic Representation: Evidence from the UK E-Petition System
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在线行动主义和二元表征：来自英国电子请愿系统的证据
DOI：
10.1111/lsq.12291
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发表时间：
2020
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Blumenau J
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作者：
Blumenau J
通过使公民更容易表达他们的偏好，网络形式的政治参与有可能加强政治家和选民之间的代表性联系。然而，我们对网络宣传对政治家行为的影响知之甚少。使用英国电子请愿系统的新数据，我表明，即使与国会议员在反事实非请愿辩论中的行为相比，国会议员在议会辩论中倡导请愿的可能性大幅增加与国会议员对请愿的支持有关，后者关注的是相同的政策问题。然而，国会议员的反应受到政党纪律和选举竞争的制约。这些发现对我们理解议会制中的二元代表制具有重要意义。
By making it easier for citizens to communicate their preferences, online forms of political participation have the potential to strengthen the representational link between politicians and voters. However, we know little about the effects of online advocacy on politicians’ behavior. Using new data from an e‐petition system in the United Kingdom, I show that support for a petition among a Member of Parliament’s constituents is associated with a substantial increase in the probability that the MP advocates for the petition in parliamentary debate, even when compared to MP behavior in counterfactual non‐petition debates which focus on the same policy issues. However, MP responsiveness is conditioned both by party discipline and electoral competition. These findings have important implications for our understanding of dyadic representation in parliamentary systems.