Examples include anti-immigrant campaign posters by 🇦🇹 FPÖ party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking about her role as descriptive representative of women after experiencing sexism, MEP Terry Reintke engaging in surrogate representation of citizens abroad, or the 🇬🇧 Conservatives' Brexit rebels. 9/17 - ThreadSky

chriswratil.bsky.social • 44 days ago

Examples include anti-immigrant campaign posters by 🇦🇹 FPÖ party, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez talking about her role as descriptive representative of women after experiencing sexism, MEP Terry Reintke engaging in surrogate representation of citizens abroad, or the 🇬🇧 Conservatives' Brexit rebels. 9/17

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andreaszukala.bsky.social•44 days ago

Congrats and fascinating and I want to read this urgently, but the link is broken, can you help?

chriswratil.bsky.social•44 days ago

Try later again. It does not work for me 4 out of 5 times at the moment. But then 1:5 times it works. I will email CUP.

chriswratil.bsky.social•44 days ago

These examples show how we can study many more aspects of representation in politicians' communicative acts than only the substantive & descriptive dimensions. At the same time, they clarify how all these aspects can be contained in communicative acts that provide a unifying analytical frame. 10/17

chriswratil.bsky.social•44 days ago

In section 4, we provide a case study of how these dimensions can be studied with quantitative methods in an interactive-constructivist understanding using data from the 🇬🇧 2019 general elections & focusing on women's representation as perhaps the most prominent topic in research at the moment. 11/17

chriswratil.bsky.social•44 days ago

Following our relational understanding, we test hypotheses about what women demand from female MPs & how female MPs act & speak in Parliament on four dimensions of representation: surrogation, justification, personalization & responsiveness. We use legislative speech & voting data to test. 12/17

chriswratil.bsky.social•44 days ago

Our results show that how women want to be represented by female MPs & how female MPs represent is broadly in line on three of our four dimensions of representation: Women with a male local MP demand more surrogate representation from female MPs outside their district & receive it from them. 13/17

chriswratil.bsky.social•44 days ago

Women who identify with a female MP demand more pluralist justification from them (cp. to those identifying with male MP) & female MPs talk more pluralist than male MPs. Women who identify with a female MP do not expect more responsiveness, and female MPs are not more responsive than male MPs. 14/17

chriswratil.bsky.social•44 days ago

However, we find some mismatch on personalization dimension of representation: While women voters identifying with a female MP demand more party-independence & rebellion from them, female MPs do not rebel more often against whip than male MPs. Quality of representation can vary by dimension. 15/17

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