Retrospective Pledge Voting and Political Accountability

The Costs of Broken Promises
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-54290-9
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 245 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 463 g

This book examines retrospective pledge voting, the phenomenon of whether and under which conditions citizens are less likely to vote for government parties that have failed to turn their pre-election pledges into tangible policies. Adopting a multi-methods approach, it demonstrates that citizens do punish government parties that have shown a poor performance in fulfilling their election pledges, and that more sceptical citizens with negative pre-existing opinions punish pledge breakage more severely. Bringing together research on election pledges, government performance and voting, the book has significant implications to help better understand democratic representation and voter-party linkages. It will appeal to all those interested in politics and public policy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matthieß, Theres

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Führung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Election pledges, democratic representation and voting.- 2. How pledge performance affects voting.- 3. A threefold empirical investigation of RPV.- 4. RPV at the aggregate level: Evidence from observational data.- 5. RPV at the group level: Evidence from survey data.- 6. RPV at the micro level: Evidence from experimental data.- 7. New evidence on RPV.- 8. A good or bad sign for democracy?

Über Autor(innen)

Theres Matthieß is Assistant Professor of Empirical Democracy Research at the University of Trier, Germany.