“…Government responsiveness is considered one of the most important features of democracy (Dahl, 1971;Powell, 2004;Verba & Nie, 1972) and previous studies have examined what kinds of variables explain variations in government responsiveness. It has been revealed that government responsiveness tends to be determined by social media (Ennser-Jedenastik et al, 2022;Eom et al, 2018;Panagiotopoulos et al, 2013), regime types (Cleary, 2007;Grossman & Slough, 2022;Powell, 2004), party organization (Linde & Peters, 2020), cabinet ministers' professional backgrounds (Alexiadou, 2022), and socio-economic conditions of countries or provinces (Itani et al, 2022;Speer, 2012).…”