The relationship between what citizens want in terms of policies and what they get from
political elites is considered one of the key aspects of representative democracies. Scholars …

There is widespread agreement that better policy representation increases citizens'
satisfaction with democracy. Previous research on this topic has generally focused on …

Previous research has shown that citizens tend to be more satisfied with the functioning of
democracy when their ideological positions are more proximate to representatives'. This …

Citizen-elite congruence has long been considered an important yardstick for the quality of
democracy. The literature on citizen satisfaction with democracy, however, has reduced …

This chapter connects the two end-poles of the chain of political representation: citizens'
policy preferences and public policy outputs. As a step in between, it discusses work on …

Citizen satisfaction with democracy is greater when parties offer choices that are congruent
with voter preferences. But are citizens content with simply having a party that represents …

In the first comparative study of multidimensional government‐citizen policy congruence, this
article shows that citizens are less satisfied with democracy when their views differ from that …

Congruence between government policies and citizen preferences is a key element that
increases the quality of democracy. While scholars have shown that governments generally …

This article examines ideological ties between citizens and parties in power and its impact
on satisfaction with democracy in eight consolidated democracies during the late 1990s …

Ideological congruence is an important and popular measure of the quality of political
representation. The closer the match between the preferences of the public and those of …