书目名称 | Economic Inequality and Political Representation in Switzerland |
编辑 | Jan Rosset |
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概述 | Investigates economically rooted inequalities in the political representation of citizens’ policy preferences.Offers new theories on why wealthy citizens’ voices are better heard.Based on data from a |
丛书名称 | Contributions to Political Science |
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描述 | .This book analyzes the link between economic and political inequalities and investigates the mechanisms that lead to economically rooted inequalities in the political representation of citizens’ policy preferences. Focusing on the case of Switzerland and evaluating data from the post-electoral survey, Selects 2007, the author demonstrates that the policy preferences of members of the Federal Assembly best reflect those of rich citizens. This pattern is explained by differential levels of political participation and knowledge across income groups, party finance, the fact that representatives tend to come from higher economic strata, and the failure of the party-system structure to reflect the complexity of policy preferences among citizens.. |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Democracy; Economic Inequality; Policy Congruence; Political Representation; Switzerland |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27117-0 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-80078-3 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-27117-0Series ISSN 2198-7289 Series E-ISSN 2198-7297 |
issn_series | 2198-7289 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 |