Social status, political priorities and unequal representation

Traber, Denise; Hänni, Miriam; Giger, Nathalie; Breunig, Christian

Social status, political priorities and unequal representation

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2022

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Traber, Denise

Hänni, Miriam

Giger, Nathalie

Breunig, Christian

Angaben zur Forschungsförderung

European Union (EU): 741538

Projekt

Konditionale Responsivität in Frankreich und Deutschland

Open Access-Veröffentlichung

Open Access Hybrid

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Politik- und Verwaltungswissenschaft

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European Journal of Political Research. Wiley. 2022, 61(2), pp. 351-373. ISSN 0304-4130. eISSN 1475-6765. Available under: doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12456

Zusammenfassung

Researchers on inequalities in representation debate about whether governments represent the preferences of the rich better than those of less affluent citizens. We argue that problems of high‐ and low‐status citizens are treated differently already at the agenda‐setting stage. If affluent and less affluent citizens have different priorities about which issues should be tackled by government, then these divergent group priorities explain why government favors high‐ over low‐status citizens. Due to different levels of visibility, resources and social ties, governments pay more attention to what high‐status citizens consider important in their legislative agenda and pay less attention to the issues of low‐status citizens. We combined three types of data for our research design. First, we extracted the policy priorities (most important issues) for all status groups from Eurobarometer data between 2002 and 2016 for 10 European countries and match this information with data on policy outcomes from the Comparative Agendas Project. We then strengthen our results using a focused comparison of three single country studies over longer time series. We show that a priority gap exists and has representational consequences. Our analysis has important implications for the understanding of the unequal representation of status groups as it sheds light on an important, yet so far unexplored, aspect of the political process. Since the misrepresentation of political agendas occurs at the very beginning of the policy‐making process, the consequences are potentially even more severe than for the unequal treatment of preferences.

Fachgebiet (DDC)

320 Politik

Schlagwörter

Inequality, Representation, Social status, Political Priorities

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TRABER, Denise, Miriam HÄNNI, Nathalie GIGER, Christian BREUNIG, 2022. Social status, political priorities and unequal representation. In: European Journal of Political Research. Wiley. 2022, 61(2), pp. 351-373. ISSN 0304-4130. eISSN 1475-6765. Available under: doi: 10.1111/1475-6765.12456

BibTex

@article{Traber2022Socia-53521,
  year={2022},
  doi={10.1111/1475-6765.12456},
  title={Social status, political priorities and unequal representation},
  number={2},
  volume={61},
  issn={0304-4130},
  journal={European Journal of Political Research},
  pages={351--373},
  author={Traber, Denise and Hänni, Miriam and Giger, Nathalie and Breunig, Christian}
}

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