Previous studies conclude that governments fulfill a large share of their campaign pledges.
However, only a minority of voters believe that politicians try to keep their promises, and …

Democratic theories expect citizens to be able to accurately evaluate fulfilment of parties'
election pledges. We use specifically designed survey items from the Swedish National …

Do voters decide on the basis of the election pledges political parties make? Although this is
a key assumption in most democratic theories and, seemingly, among parties who issue …

The theory of promissory representation (Mansbridge, 2003) proposes that voters select
parties based on the pledges they made during the campaign. The elected parties then fulfill …

Kommun-och landstingsfullmäktigeundersökningen (KOLFU) genomfördes för tredje
gången 2017. KOLFU är en enkätstudie som riktar sig till samtliga folkvalda politiker i …

I en representativ demokrati bör politiska sakfrågor ha en stor betydelse för väljarnas
partival. Den ökade sakfrågeröstningen bland väljarna innebär att det blir allt viktigare för …

The connection between political parties' campaign promises and government actions-
known as the programme-to-policy linkage-has been a topic of scholarly interest for nearly …

The mandate model of democracy and the theory of promissory representation assume that
voters sanction or reward parties for their ability to fulfil pledges made during the election …

Kommun-och landstingsfullmäktigeundersökningen (KOLFU) genomfördes för tredje
gången 2017. KOLFU är en enkätstudie som riktar sig till samtliga folkvalda politiker i …

Il libro contiene i risultati del lavoro di ricercatori e docenti di Sapienza e di altre università e
centri di ricerca pubblici, aggregatisi attorno al nodo romano di Urban@ it-Centro Nazionale …