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  • This chapter deals with a central element of representative democracies: the representation of the citizens by legislators in parliament. The basic link for this relationship are elections. Critics argue it is especially the lower stratum of society that is participating less in elections and whose preferences subsequently become systematically less represented in parliament. So far, however, the plausibility of this argumentation has rarely been tested empirically. To close this gap, we are testing if less electoral participation of the lower stratum leads to a worse substantial representation of these citizens. By using survey data, we analyze whether the policy preferences of citizens are congruent with those of the elected. We find that although belonging to a specific social stratum is not the defining concept for policy preferences, the lower stratum is still worse represented than the middle and upper strata in all eight parliaments under investigation. Its reduced level of electoral participation has indeed a modest impact on substantive representation. But the differences in the quality of representation are larger between countries as between the different social strata within countries. With respect to the level of individual parties, we see a similar picture: parties represent their voters from the middle and upper strata often slightly better than their voters from the lower strata. In summary, we cannot find a real crisis of substantial representation of the lower strata, but we can find a significant cross-country underrepresentation that—if it increases over time—has the potential to damage representative democracies. (xsd:string)
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  • Inequality in Political Representation: Is the Lower Social Stratum Worse Represented? (xsd:string)
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  • Democracy and Crisis. Challenges in Turbulent Times (xsd:string)
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  • In Democracy and Crisis. Challenges in Turbulent Times, edited by Merkel, Wolfgang and Kneip, Sascha, 125-143, Springer, 2018 (xsd:string)
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