Research in public administration and public management has distinctive features that
influence the choices and application of research methods. Periods of change and upheaval …

Explanations of party competition and vote choice are commonly based on the Downsian
view of politics: parties maximise votes by adopting positions on policy dimensions …

Governments in democratic systems are expected to respond to the issue preferences of
citizens. Yet we have a limited understanding of the factors that cause levels of …

In this article we reconstruct how the issues of migration and integration have been framed
in the Dutch public debate over the last decade. We examine the patterns in both the …

Dynamic agenda representation can be understood through the transmission of the priorities
of the public onto the policy priorities of government. The pattern of representation in policy …

Cross-national analyses are presented that suggest that changes in the variance of voters'
policy preferences—in 12 Western European democracies from 1976 to 1998—are …

How does voter polarisation affect party responsiveness? Previous research has shown that
political parties emphasise political issues that are important to their voters. However, it is …

This article introduces the Most Important Problem Dataset (MIPD). The MIPD provides
individual-level responses by Americans to “most important problem” questions from 1939 to …

A growing political polarisation on ethnic integration policy is characteristic of current
discussions in Dutch politics. The preferences of Dutch citizens, by contrast, remain fairly …

An overwhelming body of literature concentrates on whether governments and
representatives share congruent opinions with the general public. Though these are …