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Wratil, Christopher ORCID: 0000-0002-7339-9628 (2019). Territorial Representation and the Opinion-Policy Linkage: Evidence from the European Union. Am. J. Polit. Sci., 63 (1). S. 197 - 212. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1540-5907

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Abstract

A key feature of federal systems is the representation of subnational units by territorial representatives in policymaking at the federal level. How do such arrangements influence the linkage between public opinion and policy outputs? I argue that policymaking under territorial representation should be systematically skewed toward opinion in those states where citizens care about a policy issue and have a uniform view on it. This claim is tested using a novel data set of policy change in the European Union (EU), covering 211 policy issues and 6,506 observations of opinion-policy dyads. Results show that measures weighting opinion across member states by how much national citizens care about an issue are better predictors of policy change than EU-wide mean opinion. Moreover, congruence between state-level opinion and EU-level policy becomes more likely, the more salient and clear-cut opinion in a member state is. These findings refine our understanding of the opinion-policy linkage under territorial representation.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Wratil, Christopher UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-7339-9628 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-140241
DOI:	10.1111/ajps.12403
Journal or Publication Title:	Am. J. Polit. Sci.
Volume:	63
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 197 - 212
Date:	2019
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1540-5907
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language PUBLIC-OPINION; BARGAINING SUCCESS; GOVERNMENT RESPONSIVENESS; DEMOCRATIC DEFICIT; COUNCIL; EU; INSTITUTIONS; PREFERENCES; DYNAMICS; STATES Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/14024