When salience undermines representation: democratic dilemmas in security and counterterrorism policy
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DOI: 10.1017/psrm.2025.10049
Abstract: Congruence between the policies implemented by elected representatives and voters’ policy preferences is fundamental to representation and democratic accountability. Can we anticipate a closer alignment between voters’ policy preferences and the policies explicitly adopted by… read more here.
Keywords: salience; representation; policy; security counterterrorism ... See more keywords
Democratic representation and democratic sanctions
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DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2018.1502207
Abstract: In this paper, I argue that citizens have an entitlement to sanction representatives, but representatives have tools to anticipate this sanction and reconstruct their views in order to anticipate the views of the people they… read more here.
Keywords: sanction; democratic representation; democratic sanctions; representation democratic ... See more keywords