The purposes of this chapter are twofold: to investigate to what extent the behaviour of the
individual in the mass electorates of five political systems offers empirical support for the …

The transmission of policy preferences from the mass electorate to the political elite is the
subject of Warren Miller's illuminating new book. The elites of whom he writes are the …

Political representation lies at the heart of democratic systems. However, political
representation is possible in political systems different from liberal democracies (Weissberg …

The results of empirical research into the process of political representation are not very
reassuring for stern believers in democratic government. Members of representative bodies …

In earlier research, Cnudde and McCrone (1966) presented a revised version of the Miller
and Stokes model of representation, which they contend to be an accurate portrait of the …

We investigate the relationship between party issue position and mass evaluation of political
parties in multiparty systems. In so doing, we engage two competing theories of mass-elite …

There is one issue which tends to dominate the debate about legislative electoral systems. It
centres on the relative merits of “fairness” versus an electoral outcome which produces a …

Parties, not individual parliamentary members or voters, will constitute the principle actors in
our analysis. Consequently, we will apply a collectivist model of representation when …

We offer a theory of the direction and nature of representational linkages between
constituents and their elected representatives based on two attributes of issues: their …

This paper examines the extent to which conditions for the 'representative party
government'model of representation exist in the EU. It suggests that, although application of …