The Constituency Roles of MPs at the Federal and<i>Länder</i>Levels in Germany

Patzelt, Werner J.

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“…Second, we probe for evidence of distinct patterns of representation using not a single indicator, but a variety of them that together capture a legislator's views on his or her representational task. Our findings have important implications for institutional design and the normative puzzle as to how to ensure legislatures' close linkage to citizens (see also Patzelt 2007).…”

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State structure and political representation: Comparing the views of statewide and sub‐state legislators across 14 countries

André

Depauw

Deschouwer

2016

European J Political Res

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How the recent creation, re‐invention or reinforcement of regional levels of political decision making across Europe compounds political representation is one of the key issues of contemporary democratic government. Despite growing scholarly interest, the critical question as to whether the regional institutional setting has brought about distinct representational roles among sub‐state legislators has yet to be addressed. To advance research in this field, this study bridges the literature on multilevel politics and legislative studies that to date have developed in isolation. Using innovative survey data from 14 statewide and 56 regional legislatures across Europe, it provides the first comprehensive test of how the state structure affects a legislator's views on representation. The results highlight that, relative to legislators in unitary states and national legislators in multilevel states, legislators at the regional level are more constituency‐oriented. Moreover, this heightened responsiveness to constituents at the regional level is not offset by weaker collective representation operating through political parties. Beyond these findings’ immediate relevance to scholars of federalism/regionalisation and parliaments, they also speak to the wider normative debate about the quality of political representation and public policy.

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State structure and political representation: Comparing the views of statewide and sub‐state legislators across 14 countries

André

Depauw

Deschouwer

2016

European J Political Res

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“…Por ello, es probable que los parlamentarios de estos partidos prefieran en mayor medida una dirección desde arriba. Por último, en los Estados federales las competencias del nivel regional suelen estar más restringidas a temas de interés local o a temas que afectan más a la vida cotidiana de los ciudadanos (Patzelt, 2007;André et al, 2014). Además, el Parlamento nacional está más alejado de los ciudadanos y grupos sociales que la respectiva Cámara regional, lo que facilita la existencia de una mayor proximidad con los representantes regionales.…”

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Del "estilo" a la "dirección" la representación política en el Congreso de los Diputados y en los Parlamentos autonómicos

Camacho-Ávila¹

2024

REIS

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This research note aims to present the direction of the relationship between representatives and the represented as a new means of conceptualizing political representation. Traditional empirical models for the analysis of representation used the category of style, which is incompatible with the most recent contributions, both of Political Theory and empirical research that describe political representation as a bidirectional process. In the first part of this note, criticisms to the style category and the advantages of its replacement by direction are presented. In the second part, the CONREP-2012 database is used to analyze Spanish parliamentarians' preferences regarding the direction of representation to highlight the appropriateness of this new conceptualization. Cómo citarCamacho-Ávila, Beatriz (2018). «Del estilo a la dirección: la representación política en el Congreso de los Diputados y en los Parlamentos autonómicos». Revista Española de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 162: 129-140. (http://dx.doi.org/10.5477/cis/reis.162.129)La versión en inglés de esta nota de investigación puede consultarse en http://reis.cis.es

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“…[ Norton and Wood, 1993;Patzelt, 2007;Lundberg, 2007). However, individual-level differences outweigh country-level differences.…”

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“…Previous research in Germany, Canada and the UK has suggested that it is uncommon for elected representatives to redirect misdirected constituent inquiries, in particular to representatives of other parties (Patzelt, 2007;Franks, 2007;Russell and Bradbury, 2007).…”

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Explaining Cooperation over Casework between Members of National and Regional Parliaments

2014

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The Constituency Roles of MPs at the Federal andLänderLevels in Germany

Cited by 29 publications

References 4 publications

State structure and political representation: Comparing the views of statewide and sub‐state legislators across 14 countries

State structure and political representation: Comparing the views of statewide and sub‐state legislators across 14 countries

Del "estilo" a la "dirección" la representación política en el Congreso de los Diputados y en los Parlamentos autonómicos

Explaining Cooperation over Casework between Members of National and Regional Parliaments

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