It has long been realized that democratic governance requires a
two-way flow of influence. Governments must be able to respond to
what people want and people must be able to react to what
governments do. These mechanisms of democratic governance have
contributed to two research traditions: one, the responsible party
approach, views policy change as a consequence of 'electoral
turnover'; and the other, the dynamic representation approach,
views policy change as occurring in 'rational anticipation' of
electoral repercussions. The aim of this book is to evaluate the
state of political representation in contemporary Europe in the
light of these two approaches. The chapters present fresh insight
into issue congruence between voters and parties and into the
extent of dynamic representation. The chapters are logically
clustered into three groups: one group of scholars base their work
on the 'responsible party model' and apply it to voters and
European parties and party groups; a second group of scholars
demonstrate the importance of institutional structures on the
degree of issue congruence; and a third group of scholars examine
the reciprocal nature of dynamic representation and the effects of
institutions on the opinion-policy connection. This book was
published as a special issue of West European Politics.
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