Who Do European Parties Represent? How Western European Parties Represent the Policy Preferences of Opinion Leaders
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Who Do European Parties Represent? How Western European Parties Represent the Policy Preferences of Opinion Leaders
Several recent studies explore how American politicians represent the policy views of subconstituencies within the electorate. We extend this perspective to 12 West European democracies over the period 1973–2002 to examine how mainstream parties responded to electoral subconstituencies. We find that parties were highly responsive to the views of opinion leaders, i.e., citizens who regularly eng...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Politics
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0022-3816,1468-2508
DOI: 10.1017/s0022381608090130