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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- 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