Ideological Representation: Achieved and Astray: Elections, Institutions, and the Breakdown of Ideological Congruence in Parliamentary Democracies

G. Bingham Powell, Jr

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Ideological Representation: Achieved and Astray

Elections, Institutions, and the Breakdown of Ideological Congruence in Parliamentary Democracies

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G. Bingham Powell, Jr, University of Rochester, New York

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: May 2019
Print publication year:: 2019
Online ISBN:: 9781108699785
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108699785

Subjects:: Area Studies, European Studies, Politics and International Relations, European Government, Politics and Policy, Comparative Politics
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

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Ideological congruence is the term generally used in comparative politics for the representative relationship between the general preferences of citizens and the perceived and stated position of government. This study provides a systematic comparative assessment of success and failure in achieving ideological congruence in nineteen developed parliamentary democracies from 1996 through to 2017. It then deconstructs the processes through which elections can connect citizens and governments into the three major stages: citizens' votes in parliamentary elections; the conversion of those votes into legislative representation; the election of prime ministers by their parliaments and the appointment of cabinet ministers. Analyzing these three stages shows that average distance from the median citizen increases at each stage, with only a few remarkable recoveries once congruence begins to go astray.

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Ideological Representation: Achieved and Astray

Elections, Institutions, and the Breakdown of Ideological Congruence in Parliamentary Democracies

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Ideological Representation: Achieved and Astray
pp i-i

Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics - Series page
pp ii-ii

Ideological Representation: Achieved and Astray - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Figures
pp vi-vii

Tables
pp viii-ix

Acknowledgments
pp x-xii

1 - Elections and Ideological Congruence in Parliamentary Democracies
pp 1-30

2 - The (Rocky) Paths to Government Congruence
pp 31-54

3 - Party Systems as Contexts
pp 55-73

4 - Going Astray at Stage I
pp 74-91

5 - Going Astray at Stage II
pp 92-112

6 - Going Astray at Stage III
pp 113-142

7 - A Special Analysis Problem at Stage III
pp 143-176

8 - The Costs of Ideological Congruence
pp 177-202

9 - Representation in Parliamentary Democracies
pp 203-227

References
pp 228-236

Appendix: Replication and Expansion
pp 237-245

Index
pp 246-248

Other Books in the Series (continued from page ii) - Series page
pp 249-254

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