The Good Politician

Clarke, Nick; Jennings, Will; Moss, Jonathan; Stoker, Gerry

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“…In other words, not everyone can (or at least, should) become a politician: only particularly gifted individuals should take this path. This can be related with findings of Clarke et al who show that British citizens after the WWII expected politicians to be true statesmen, allying moderation, competence, sincerity, and leadership (Clarke et al, 2018).…”

Section: Vision Of Political Representativessupporting

confidence: 80%

“…In the first discourse we identified, the adversarial and ideological character of politics is criticized as a diversion. Partisanship is rejected, with the implicit idea that it is possible to reach objective and universally acceptable solutions, very much in line with the "stealth aspirations" identified by several authors (Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, 2002;Clarke et al, 2018). Lin 1 (female, 38, unemployed) argues: "I don't like discourses involving too much the notion of conflict.…”

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“…Support for traditional representative democracy is challenged by a growing demand for citizen participation (Norris, 1999(Norris, , 2011 and the prevalence of "stealth" democratic attitudes supporting the empowerment of experts and successful businessmen (Bengtsson and Mattila, 2009;Coffé and Michels, 2014;Fernández-Martínez and Fábregas, 2018). Qualitative approaches have adopted another perspective which focuses on the general narrative produced by ordinary citizens on their political system (Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, 2002;Clarke et al, 2018;Saunders and Klandermans, 2019).…”

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Citizens' Contrasting Aspirations About Their Political System: Entrustment, Participation, Identification and Control

Bedock¹

2020

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Empirical political science has increasingly focused on citizens' conceptions of their political system. Most existing studies draw upon large quantitative datasets which have produced contradictory results. Qualitative approaches are used more and more commonly to identify the general narrative produced by ordinary citizens on their political system, but they tend to underplay the variations found in their discourses. In this article, I use semi-directed interviews to explore citizens' contrasting aspirations about their political system. This article is based on 32 interviews conducted with French citizens across Fall and Winter 2017 and on 24 interviews conducted during the Yellow Vests movement in fall 2019. During these interviews, citizens were asked to define in their own terms what politics is, what it should achieve, what the flaws and advantages of their political system are and what should be changed. These citizens have produced four ideal-typical discourses, uncovering four distinct conceptions of what the political system is, how it legitimizes itself, what types of procedures it should lay on and what types of outcomes it should produce. Citizens' discourses heavily focus on alternative logics of political representation, which remains unavoidable to channel political decisions. They express four competing aspirations: entrustment, participation, identification, and control & sanction. The two latter conceptions remain under-explored empirically.

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Citizens' Contrasting Aspirations About Their Political System: Entrustment, Participation, Identification and Control

Bedock¹

2020

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“…WEP has repeatedly used the 'out of touch' trope to describe mainstream parties, a discursive tactic common amongst populist parties who frame themselves as 'anti-political politicians' (Clarke et al, 2018). For instance, the membership section of WEP's website declares that the 'politics that dominate the UK are unrepresentative, uninspiring and out of touch with everyday women's needs,' 11 whilst leader Sophie Walker observed that 'politics has become a word that means distant people.'…”

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Doing Politics Differently? Applying a Feminist Institutionalist Lens to the U.K. Women's Equality Party

Evans

Kenny

2019

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The UK Women's Equality Party (WEP) was established in 2015 in order to 'bring about change by winning -support, votes and seats'. It has thus far recruited tens of thousands of members and run candidates in national, devolved and local elections. This article provides one of the first empirical analyses of this new actor in UK politics. Adopting a feminist institutionalist lens we examine the extent to which WEP 'does things differently' by looking at discourse, formal party rules and informal ways of doing things 'on the ground'. Drawing upon a set of semi-structured interviews, observations of local and national party meetings, and document analysis, we argue that while WEP has to some extent tried to set up alternative participatory structures and new 'ways of working', it has also at times fallen back on more traditional, centralised and hierarchical modes of party organising, as well as informalized practices, which are more typically associated with male-dominated parties.

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“…Despite growing democratic resentment, several empirical studies reveal citizens' unwillingness to get rid of representative institutions (Fuchs and Klingemann, 1995, pp. 434-437;Ferrin, 2016;Clarke et al, 2018) 1 . Polls, however, frequently report that many citizens distrust their representatives and believe that they do not care about them.…”

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Can the Recall Improve Electoral Representation?

Vandamme

2020

Front. Polit. Sci.

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Empirical studies reveal many citizens' unwillingness to get rid of representative democracy. A great number of them, however, distrust their representatives and would want representation to be improved, for example by giving citizens more control over their representatives. One possible mechanism of control is the recall-the possibility to remove elected representatives from office through a vote before the end of their term. Although this democratic tool is on the rise worldwide and was supported in the past by influential figures such as Rousseau and Marx, its study has been neglected by contemporary political theorists. The aim of this contribution is to identify the main arguments for and against the use of recall mechanisms, and to assess both their normative and empirical validity. In particular, it asks whether they have the capacity to improve the quality of representation or at least the perception of representative institutions' legitimacy, and answers with a moderate "yes"-especially for the latter aspect (perceived legitimacy).

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The Good Politician

Cited by 83 publications

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Citizens' Contrasting Aspirations About Their Political System: Entrustment, Participation, Identification and Control

Citizens' Contrasting Aspirations About Their Political System: Entrustment, Participation, Identification and Control

Doing Politics Differently? Applying a Feminist Institutionalist Lens to the U.K. Women's Equality Party

Can the Recall Improve Electoral Representation?

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