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Lutz, Georg. "Parties and Voter Mobilization in Direct Democracy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2011-03-14 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41398_index.html>

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Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Representation means that elected representatives and voters should somehow be connected. Although there is no agreement about the nature of this connection we can expect that representatives should reflect the preferences of the people on major policies. This paper examines the congruence of representatives and voters in direct democracy where we have possibility to study real voter decisions and how well parties manage to mobilize voters to vote in favour or their position. The analysis of the popular votes on about 150 issues shows that the representative system in Switzerland reflects the preferences of the voters fairly well. Governments and parliaments have a high approval rate in popular votes in general. At a party level, voters of a party very often follow the position of the party leadership too. Nevertheless direct democracy can have an impact on the legislative process, likely mak-ing legislative processes more responsive to the peoples needs and closer to the median voter preference.

Campaigning to the Median Voter or Mobilizing the Base? The Politics of Interest Group Influence on Political Party Platforms [AKA: "Gimme All Your Planks, or I'll Take These Voters Elsewhere"]

Political Party Discipline in a New Democracy: The Case of Democratic Spain, 1977-1979