Abstract Public Opinion Quarterly at its outset focused heavily on the influences on public
opinion, predicated on the assumption of its strong impact on politics and policymaking. Has …

The role of national legislatures in European integration first received serious attention in the
mid-1990s in connection with debates on the EU's democratic deficit. Since then, both …

Citizens, parties, and movements are increasingly contesting issues connected to
globalization, such as whether to welcome immigrants, promote free trade, and support …

Starting from the observation that the European Union now possesses many of the attributes
of modern political systems, Hix and Høyland take an innovative approach to analysing …

In the first comparative study of multidimensional government‐citizen policy congruence, this
article shows that citizens are less satisfied with democracy when their views differ from that …

Do parties represent the ideological preferences of voters in clientelistic political systems?
We answer this question by studying the case of Indonesia, whose politics analysts usually …

To what extent do representational gaps between parties and voters destabilise party
systems and create electoral opportunities for anti-establishment parties on the left and …

It has been widely acknowledged that the process of European integration and unification
was started and is still pursued as an elite project, designed to put an end to debilitating …

Issue congruence between citizens and policy makers should be one of the central aspects
of a democratic process. This study uses the 2009 European Election Study to compare the …

This study analyses congruence across various issues in 16 European democracies.
Making use of public opinion and expert survey data, our analyses show that congruence …