Are elected legislators responsive to citizen policy demands expressed in social media? A comparative analysis of Latin American democracies

这项研究旨在评估民选议员是否对选民在社交媒体上表达的要求感兴趣，并衡量他们做出回应的程度。鉴于文献已经表明了社交媒体在政治参与中的重要性，关于公民使用社交媒体对政策制定的影响的研究结果不那么具有说服力，这是意想不到的。为了衡量社交媒体在立法者决策中的作用，该项目将使用巴西、智利和墨西哥的跨国比较分析，使用定量和定性的方法来确定促进这种关系的因素。这些国家的公民和立法者普遍使用政治社交媒体，这为该项目在政策制定的不同阶段衡量社交媒体的影响提供了充分的证据。

This research seeks to assess whether elected legislators take an interest in voter demands expressed on social media, and to measure the extent in which they respond. Given that the literature has shown the importance of social media in political participation, it is unexpected that findings on the influence of citizens' social media use on policymaking are less conclusive. To gauge the role of social media in legislators' policymaking, the project will use a cross-national comparative analysis of Brazil, Chile and Mexico, using quantitative and qualitative methods to identify factors that foster this relationship. The ubiquity of political social media use in citizens and legislators in these countries provides the project with ample evidence for measuring the effects of social media at different stages of policymaking.