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Representing the People - A Survey Among Members of Statewide and Substate Parliaments (Hardcover)
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Representing the People - A Survey Among Members of Statewide and Substate Parliaments (Hardcover)
Series: Comparative Politics
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Modern democracy is organized as a representative democracy in
which those representing the people are elected to office.
Political parties play a crucial role in this. They select the
candidates, form or oppose governments, and organize the work of
the representatives in parliament. This model of democracy is
however being criticized. Parties are hardly trusted and voters
have become volatile. How, then, do elected representatives of the
people see and fulfil their role? To study this a survey was
organized among the members of statewide and sub-state parliaments
in fifteen countries. Members of seventy-three parliamentary
assemblies were asked how they perceive their representative role,
what they do to keep in touch with voters, how they behave and vote
in parliament and how they will try to get re-elected. One of the
ways in which candidates and elected members of parliament might
react to the changing conditions in which they have to represent
the people is by stressing more personal characteristics as opposed
to the party label and party ideology. Representation might then
become more a matter of personal choice. The results of the survey
presented in this book do however confirm quite strongly that
representation is very much shaped by the political institutions in
which it is performed. Representation differs between countries,
between different electoral systems, between statewide and regional
parliaments, and depends strongly on the party to which a member of
parliament belongs. Representation depends not as much on who the
representatives are, as on where they are.
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