Bundestagswahlen, Landtagswahlen, Kommunalwahlen, Europawahlen–seit Jahren sinkt
die Wahlbeteiligung in Deutschland. Doch was steht hinter diesem Trend und was bedeutet …

The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process
by which public policy is made. Explaining clearly the importance of the relationship …

" This book is the final product of a five-year project funded by the European Research
Council (ERC) entitled" Investing in Education in Europe: Attitudes, Politics and …

As a core principle of contemporary democracy, political representation has been the
subject of numerous studies. In particular, responsiveness has been thoroughly examined …

We have a detailed picture of how inequality impacts people's lives, but a much weaker
sense of how people perceive, interpret and understand issues of inequality. What shapes …

Scholars have long debated whether welfare policymaking in industrialized democracies is
responsive to citizen preferences and whether such policymaking is more responsive to rich …

In this paper, we investigate whether income inequality negatively affects voter turnout.
Despite some progress, the answer to this question is still debated due to methodological …

Recent studies show that policy changes appear to correspond primarily to the preferences
of citizens with high socio-economic status. However, the mechanisms explaining this trend …

As a key subject within the field of political science, democratic representation has been
studied widely. One aspect of democracy, related to the functioning of representation, is …

While the relation between inequality and levels of political trust has been intensely
investigated, there is no consensus yet on the mechanism behind this relation. In this paper …