Do policy-makers attend to and handle societal problems? Examining representative democracy in 98 local governments across 10 years

• In Event: Local Responses to Social Problems

Brief Overview

This paper takes a new approach to representative democracy by studying how responsive the political system is to developments in societal problems and whether this responsiveness actually increases the likelihood that those problems ameliorate.

Authors

• Matt W. Loftis, Aarhus University

• Peter Bjerre Mortensen, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

• Henrik Bech Seeberg, aarhus university