Political Representation: Linking Citizens and Representatives

Policy congruence is concerned with the similarity of policy preferences of voters on the one hand and the preferences and actions of …

Although the literature shows a bewildering variety of typologies of representative democracy, the most important distinctions can be …

This study seeks to establish the effect of parliamentary specialisation on cosponsorship of parliamentary proposals in parliamentary …

This article studies the extent to which Dutch political parties fulfil their electoral mandates.

This article studies collective party mandate fulfilment by comparing parties’ election manifestos with the parliamentary speeches of their politicians in two countries: a typical consensus democracy, the Netherlands, and a typical majoritarian democracy, the United Kingdom.

Do political parties fulfil their election mandates? This study provides an empirical analysis of a question many people feel …

This article applies spatial theory to the question of the party mandate.

The relationship between politicians and citizens is at the core of representative democracy, but any number of organizations desire some form of representative relationship between themselves and their participants, clients, etc.

Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 neemt prof. dr. R.B. (Rudy) Andeweg officieel afscheid van de Universiteit Leiden. Voorafgaand aan zijn afscheidsrede organiseert het Instituut Politieke Wetenschap een symposium. Als inleiders/sprekers van dit symposium, onder voorzitterschap van prof.