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March 12, 2019 / Uncategorized

Civil Society Engagement and Policy

In a new study in Comparative Political Studies Anne Rasmussen and Stefanie Reher study whether civil society engagement enhances the link between public opinion and policy. In other words: does joining (politically active) voluntary associations make it more likely that policy is in line with the preferences of the public? To answer this question, they analyse …

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February 5, 2019 / Uncategorized

GovLis Symposium: Lobbying for better or for worse?

The GovLis team is hosting a symposium that will bring together scholars interested in studying whether interest groups help or hurt the representation of the public. The event will take place at Leiden Unviersity (Campus The Hague) on April 25-26 and the deadline for proposing an abstract is March 1st. We hope to welcome you …

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February 4, 2019 / Uncategorized

ECPR General Conference

Together with Marcel Hanegraaff, GovLis project member Wiebke Junk is organizing a section on interest groups at the ECPR General Conference September. The event will take place in Wroclaw, Poland. The section is called: “Interest Group and Lobbying Research in an Integrative Perspective: Building Bridges Across the Discipline”Moreover, GovLis’ prinicpal investigator Anne Rasmussen chairs a …

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September 24, 2018 / Uncategorized

Framing and lobbying success: Why it pays to work as a team

Based on their research about the framing of policy issues, Wiebke Junk and Anne Rasmussen published a post at the London School of Economics’ EUROPP blog. In it they argue that if lobbyists or other interest groups want to use framing to affect policy outcomes, they should work together. In other words: if a single lobbyist …

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September 21, 2018 / Uncategorized

Gender equality and policy congruence

Does public policy in Europe reflect women’s preferences equally well as men’s? In this new study in the European Political Science Review, Stefanie Reher compares the opinions of women and men on 20 policy issues in over 30 European countries. She finds that in most cases, majorities of men and women want the same policy outcomes. …

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August 8, 2018 / Uncategorized

Public opinion and the positions of political parties

In a new paper (open access) in Party Politics, GovLis team member Jeroen Romeijn studies the policy positions of political parties in Germany. He finds that opposition parties generally take positions that are in line with public opinion. However, the positions of parties in government are not related to public opinion at all. Instead, they are …

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June 20, 2018 / Uncategorized

New study on the congruence between public opinion and policy in Europe

The new GovLis paper “the opinion-policy nexus in Europe and the role of politicial institutions” studies the relations between public opinion and policy on 20 policy issues in 31 European Democracies. In it, Anne Rasmussen, Stefanie Reher and Dimiter Toshkov find that there is a strong relationship between public opinion and policy, as well as …

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June 20, 2018 / Uncategorized

Anne Rasmussen presents GovLis work at Harvard

On June 7th and 8th the principal investigator of the GovLis project Anne Rasmussen attended a workshop about “Political Inequality and How Representative Democracy Functions” at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School. She presented a paper, co-authored by GovLis team members Anne Binderkrantz and Heike Klüver and about how organized interests …

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April 24, 2018 / Uncategorized

GovLis presentations at MPSA and the ECPR Joint Sessions

Early April 2018 GovLis team members Anne Rasmussen and Jeroen Romeijn presented three papers at the annual meeting of Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago. One key presentation was about the extent to which interest groups can strengthen the links between public opinion and policy. Subsequently, the GovLis team met up at the Joint Sessions …

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February 26, 2018 / Uncategorized

New study out in Scandinavian Political Studies

Project members Anne Rasmussen, Jeroen Romeijn and Dimiter Toshkov recently published a paper in Scandinavian Political Studies! The study focuses on 4 policy issues in Sweden and studies whether both the political agenda and policy react to both media advocacy and public opinion. It finds that although politicians seem to pay more attention to popular policy …

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This new paper by Anne Rasmussen, Stefanie Reher and Dimiter Toshkov in the European Journal of Political Research studies the links between public opinion and policy on 20 policy issues across 31 European countries. It shows substantial levels of congruence between public opinion and policy-making, but finds less evidence for a relationship between (electoral) institutions and the link between public opinion and policy.

 

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AllernElinElin Haugsgjerd Allern@AllernElin·
29 Jan

Great new article from the #GovLis project on whether and when organized interests affect the link between public opinion and policy. Co-authored by @a_rasmussen, @AnneBind and @HeikeKluever, published in @EJPRjournal. Congratulations!

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a_rasmussenAnne Rasmussen@a_rasmussen·
26 Jan

Latest paper from the #GovLis project on interest groups & policy representation.

In @EJPR we present a more sceptical view of the ability of groups to suppress the opinion–policy linkage than the one frequently presented w @AnneBind @HeikeKluever 1/10

https://ejpr.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1475-6765.12434

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