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Full Transparency of Politicians' Actions Does Not Increase the Quality of Political Representation

Stadelmann, David ; Portmann, Marco ; Eichenberger, Reiner

In: Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2014, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 16-23

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    Titre
    • Full Transparency of Politicians' Actions Does Not Increase the Quality of Political Representation
    Auteur
    • Stadelmann, David. University of Bayreuth, Universitätsstraße 30, Bayreuth, Germany; e-mail: david.stadelmann@uni-bayreuth.de
    • Portmann, Marco. University of Fribourg, Bd. de Pérolles 90, Fribourg, Switzerland; e-mail: marco.portmann@unifr.ch, reiner.eichenberger@unifr.ch
    • Eichenberger, Reiner. CREMA—Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts, Südstrasse 11, CH-8008 Zürich, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2014, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 16-23. Cambridge University Press
    Autre version électronique
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:290952
    Summary
    We identify the impact of transparency in political decision-making on the quality of political representation with a difference-in-difference strategy. The quality of political representation is measured by the observed divergence of parliamentary decisions from revealed voter preferences on identical issues. We show that full transparency of votes of individual politicians does not decrease divergence from voter preferences