Representation and Support for Democracy: The Citizens’ Perspective

• In Event: Understanding Theories of Representation

Brief Overview

We study how citizens’ perceptions of representation relate to their democratic support. We find that collective representation contributes to specific support and that in a political-democratic crisis dyadic representation affects diffuse support.

Authors

• Liron Lavi, University of California-Los Angeles

• Clareta Treger, Tel Aviv University

• Naama Rivlin, Tel Aviv University

• Michal Shamir, Tel Aviv university