ERC Starting Grant · 2022
Political representation - the relationship between politicians and citizens - is at the core of democracy's legitimacy and functioning. Most empirical research in political science studies two aspects of representation: 1) whether politicians' substantive policy preferences match those of the citizenry, or 2) whether representatives are "like" their constituents in terms of descriptive characteristics (e.g. gender or race). However, recent research in political theory has highlighted additional dimensions of the citizen-politician relationship (e.g. whether citizens identify with politicians they have not voted for, how politicians relate to their party) and argued that citizens' own views…
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