Social status, political priorities and unequal representation
Social status, political priorities and unequal representation
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社会地位、政治优先事项和不平等代表性
DOI:
10.1111/1475-6765.12456
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发表时间:
2022
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Christian Breunig
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文献类型:
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作者:
Traber;Denise;Miriam Hänni;Nathalie Giger;Christian Breunig
Researchers on inequalities in representation debate about whether governments represent the preferences of the rich better than those of less affluent citizens. We argue that problems of high‐ and low‐status citizens are treated differently already at the agenda‐setting stage. If affluent and less affluent citizens have different priorities about which issues should be tackled by government, then these divergent group priorities explain why government favours high‐ over low‐status citizens. Due to different levels of visibility, resources and social ties, governments pay more attention to what high‐status citizens consider important in their legislative agenda and pay less attention to the issues of low‐status citizens. We combined three types of data for our research design. First, we extracted the policy priorities (most important issues) for all status groups from Eurobarometer data between 2002 and 2016 for 10 European countries and matched this information with data on policy outcomes from the Comparative Agendas Project. We then strengthen our results using a focused comparison of three single country studies over longer time series. We show that a priority gap exists and has representational consequences. Our analysis has important implications for the understanding of the unequal representation of status groups as it sheds light on an important, yet so far unexplored, aspect of the political process. Since the misrepresentation of political agendas occurs at the very beginning of the policy‐making process, the consequences are potentially even more severe than for the unequal treatment of preferences.
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DOI:
10.1017/s104909650808102x
发表时间:
2008
期刊:
PS: Political Science & Politics
影响因子:
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作者:
J. Ura;Christopher Ellis
通讯作者:
Christopher Ellis
影响因子:
2.1
作者:
J. Lefevere
通讯作者:
J. Lefevere
影响因子:
5.3
作者:
S. Reher
通讯作者:
S. Reher
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2017
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
Noam Lupu;Zach Warner
通讯作者:
Zach Warner
DOI:
--
发表时间:
2011
期刊:
影响因子:
--
作者:
Sandra León
通讯作者:
Sandra León