What Would Delegates Do? Preference aggregation and the study of democratic responsiveness

• In Event: Parties, Members, and Process in Policy Representation

Brief Overview

Combining replications and original studies, we show that well-known conclusions about democratic responsiveness depend on unappreciated preference aggregation assumptions. Party electorates may be just as ideologically extreme as politicians.

Authors

• Matthew Graham, Yale University

• Lilla Orr, Yale University