Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Studying the Chain of Representation
- 2 Our Solutions to the Challenges of Studying the Chain of Representation
- Part I Stages
- 3 Stage 1: Citizens’ Preferences
- 4 Stage 2: Policy-Makers’ Preferences
- 5 Stage 3: Public Policies Chosen
- 6 Placing Preferences and Policies on a Common Scale
- Part II Linkages
- Part III Testing the Chain of Representation
- Appendix Question Wording
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
6 - Placing Preferences and Policies on a Common Scale
from Part I - Stages
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- 1 Studying the Chain of Representation
- 2 Our Solutions to the Challenges of Studying the Chain of Representation
- Part I Stages
- 3 Stage 1: Citizens’ Preferences
- 4 Stage 2: Policy-Makers’ Preferences
- 5 Stage 3: Public Policies Chosen
- 6 Placing Preferences and Policies on a Common Scale
- Part II Linkages
- Part III Testing the Chain of Representation
- Appendix Question Wording
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Summary
We learn from this excursus that the amount of available information covaries significantly with the discriminating power of different stimuli, but not with the recovered country-specific “policy moods,” which are the quantities of interest. Our policy moods summarize respondents’ views on a number of stimuli; although these stimuli are not consistently repeated year after year, the summaries relay information about policy stances, and not only information about the number of stimuli included in any given year.
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- The Chain of RepresentationPreferences, Institutions, and Policy across Presidential Systems, pp. 91 - 116Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020