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
5 - Stage 3: Public Policies Chosen
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
This chapter concludes the overview of the indicators of policy moods – for citizens, legislators, senators, and presidents – and policy orientations that we have constructed. As measures of the stages in our chain of representation, they will help us understand patterns of congruence and responsiveness in further chapters in Part III. We hope to convince the reader that our measures of the policy moods of citizens and policy-makers, and our measures of the policy orientations of governments, are useful representations of the underlying concepts for which we wish to account.
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- The Chain of RepresentationPreferences, Institutions, and Policy across Presidential Systems, pp. 77 - 90Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020