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Publication Coalition cabinets, presidential ideological adjustment and legislative success(CRV, 2019) Arnold, Christian; Doyle, David; Wiesehomeier, Nina; Oliveira Xavier, Lídia; Dominguez Avila, Carlos Federico; Fonseca, Vicente,; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75-Publication Expert surveys(Taylor & Francis, 2018-10-11) Wiesehomeier, Nina; Hawkins, Kirk; Carlin, Ryan; Littvay, Levente; Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75This chapter uses expert surveys to measure populism in the context of Latin American presidential systems, contrasting two different approaches of how this research instrument can be deployed. While the first study exploits overlaps of the most prominent definitions of populism as a set of ideas, an informal style, or as political strategy and conceives of populism as a bundle of attributes combined in a single metric, the second study disaggregates these attributes, leaving it to empirical tests to explore how they, and thus the different conceptualizations of populism, relate to each other. As the contrast between both approaches reveals the limitations of the bundled approach, the chapter subsequently uses the disaggregated measures of the second study to examine if and how ten separately measured policy dimensions and the general left–right scale are associated with the degree of populism. The results indicate that across Latin America, populism is related to positioning on economic redistribution, a preference for tough measures to fight crime, and a rejection of a closer relationship with the United States. More importantly, the results show that a simple understanding of populism as anti-elite rhetoric or informal style are only able to capture specific subtypes of populism, while an operationalization in the form of the ideational approach that takes into consideration its components of people-centrism and anti-elitism in its moral version, as well as their combination into an overall index, captures populism best.Publication Expert surveys in party research(Taylor & Francis, 2023) Meijers, Maurits; Wiesehomeier, Nina; Carter, Neil; Keith, Daniel; Sindre, Gyda; Vasilopoulou, Sofia; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75Expert surveys have become indispensable data resources in party research. This chapter takes stock of the developments of expert surveys on political parties, and looks ahead at the challenges that face expert survey research. We trace the expansion of this tool over the last 35 years for measuring not only political parties’ policy positions on a plethora of policy dimensions but also its increasing use to elicit judgements on non-policy-related party characteristics such as organisational features as well as parties’ attitudes towards issues pertaining to democracy and representation. The chapter furthermore reviews the ways in which the resulting data has been utilised in party research. Finally, we discuss the methodological challenges that expert survey projects must tackle in the future, with specific attention to problems concerning expert bias, cross-country comparability, and expert burden and fatigue.Publication Organized Interests and the Mechanisms behind Unequal Representation in Legislatures(Cambridge University Press, 2023-12-07) Becher, Michael; Stegmueller, Daniel; Lupu, Noam; Pontusson, Jonas; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75How do organized interests contribute to unequal representation in contemporary democracies? We discuss two central channels: the selection of partisan legislators through elections and postelectoral influence via lobbying. We argue that these channels are potentially complementary strategies used by rational actors. Employing a game-theoretic model and simulations of interest group influence on legislative voting, we show that this logic may explain interest group strategies in unequal times. Our model implies that interest group strategies vary with party polarization and it highlights a challenge for empirical research on unequal representation and the literature on lobbying. Using statistical models commonly used in the literature to study biases in legislative voting or policy adoption, researchers are likely to overstate the relevance of elections as a channel through which groups affect legislative responsiveness and understate the role interest groups’ postelectoral influence. Our results stress the importance of theoretical models capturing the strategic behavior of political actors as a guiding light for the empirical study of mechanisms of unequal representation.Publication Polarización Política y Cumplimiento de las Medidas de Salud Pública en Tiempos de Covid-19(Fundación Alternativas, 2022) Becher, Michael; Menéndez González, Irene; Penadés de la Cruz, Alberto; Garmendia Madariaga, Amuitz; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75La pandemia de COVID-19 ha supuesto la mayor amenaza para la salud pública en un siglo. En España —y en muchos otros países— fue también una prueba de resistencia para la democracia. Ya antes de la pandemia, las instituciones democráticas y la democracia representativa se habían visto cuestionadas ante una creciente polarización política. Desde el comienzo de la pandemia, no obstante, ha aumentado la preocupación entre los académicos por el posible círculo vicioso entre la polarización política y la COVID-19.Publication Populism and Understandings of Democracy(Taylor & Francis, 2024-11-07) Wiesehomeier, Nina; Singer, Matthew; Chryssogelos, Angelos; Hawkins, Eliza Tanner; Hawkins, Kirk; Littvay, Levente; Wiesehomeier, Nina; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75The advancement of populism has led to a vivid discussion of its corrective or threatening potential for representative democracy. The impact of populism may depend, however, on the particular vision populist voters hold of democracy. Using questions from the European Social Survey (2012) that aim to measure the population's understanding of the concept of democracy, this paper explores whether populist voters differ significantly from non-populist voters in their understanding of democracy. The results suggest that European populists are not less likely to conceive of democracy in terms of electoral competition or liberal checks and balances. Rather, they are more likely to add elements of direct democracy, government transparency, and enhanced welfare state to those standard elements of democratic competition and strongly endorse democratic responsiveness by parties in office as public opinion shifts. Yet, the data also show that populist voters reject the protection of minority rights, are less satisfied with democracy than non-populist voters, and are less committed to democracy itself as an important ideal.Publication Profiling the electorate: Ideology and attitudes of rightwing voters(John Hopkins University Press, 2014) Wiesehomeier, Nina; Doyle, David; Luna, Juan Pablo; Rovira Kaltwasser, Cristóbal; https://ror.org/02jjdwm75-