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Golder, Matt. and Stramski, Jacek. "Ideological Congruence and Two Visions of Democracy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211073_index.html>

Golder, M. and Stramski, J. , 2007-08-30 "Ideological Congruence and Two Visions of Democracy" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p211073_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: A growing consensus has emerged that proportional democracies produce more ideological congruence between their citizens and representatives than majoritarian democracies. As we demonstrate, though, this consensus is open to question since it rests on a weak conceptualization of congruence, a poor theoretical foundation, and problematic data. In this paper, we introduce a new conceptualization of congruence and operationalize it with measures constructed with particularly appropriate data from the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. In direct contradiction to almost all of the literature, our empirical analysis of 41 elections in 24 countries from 1996 to 2005 illustrates that majoritarian and proportional democracies do not produce any substantive differences in terms of congruence. This suggests that if scholars wish to advocate on behalf of proportional democracies, then they should do so on grounds other than increased congruence. Our analysis has important implications for comparative and American scholars interested in political representation and congruence more generally.

The Impact of Political Ideology and Government Structure on Information Technology Policy: A Comparison of Technologically Sophisticated Countries with Differing Types of Governments

The salience of unusual issue preferences: the effect of relative policy positions on issue importance for parties in 23 countries