Calendrier du 02 juin 2020
Virtual Development Economics Seminar
Du 02/06/2020 de 17:00 à 18:30
UDRY Chris (Northwestern University)
Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali
écrit avec Lori Beaman, Dean karlan, and Bram Thuysbaert
Applied Economics Lunch Seminar
Du 02/06/2020 de 14:00 à 15:00
Zoom
DAGEFöRDE Mirjam (Sciences-Po, Humboldt University)
Against the ‘common wisdom’? How voters evaluate representation in diverging electoral contexts
This article argues that the debate on representation and the electoral context lacks both (1) a notion of citizens’ individual representational judgments and (2) a focus on the representational link between citizens and parliamentary parties. Hence, it develops a typology of congruence between citizens and parliamentary parties by presenting micro concepts of congruence. (3) The article refers to recent contradictory findings with regard to the relation of electoral systems and congruence, revisiting the debate on context and congruence when putting citizens center stage. The article proceeds as follows: first, it theorizes how a citizen evaluates representation; second, it formulates normative criteria for judging representation, developing empirical indicators for measuring congruence at the micro level by presenting a typology; third, it shows how the micro perspective refutes the ‘common wisdom’ of comparative politics by pointing out that under some conditions, proportional systems lead to lower degrees of congruence than majoritarian systems.