Promissory Democratic Representation: Campaign Promises in Australia

这个项目的目的是调查政客们在多大程度上遵守或违背了竞选承诺。它打算在推进既定的国际研究项目的同时，对澳大利亚政治进行新的研究。由于公民对政治家的信任度下降，该项目希望产生和传播迫切需要的新知识。预期的结果包括新的理论和国际比较证据，在这些证据上，竞选承诺得到了遵守和违背。这应该会带来显著的好处，比如提高公众对履行承诺的实际水平的认识。它也应该有利于那些利用竞选承诺来预测和准备政府政策的政策制定者。

This project aims to investigate the extent to which campaign promises made by politicians are kept or broken. It intends to conduct new research on Australian politics while advancing an established international research program. This project expects to generate and disseminate new knowledge that is urgently needed due to declining levels of trust among citizens in politicians. The expected outcomes include new theory and internationally comparative evidence on which campaign promises are kept and broken. This should provide significant benefits, such as greater public awareness of actual levels of promise keeping. It should also benefit policymakers who use campaign promises to anticipate and prepare government policies.