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Article | Naar een voorwaardelijk model van ongelijkheid in vertegenwoordigingEen onderzoek naar het moderatie-effect van beleidsdomeinen op ongelijkheid in beleidscongruentie |
Trefwoorden | Policy congruence, inequality, education, policy domains |
Auteurs | Christophe Lesschaeve |
DOI | 10.5553/RP/048647002016058001003 |
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Christophe Lesschaeve, "Naar een voorwaardelijk model van ongelijkheid in vertegenwoordiging", Res Publica, 1, (2016):59-80
This article studies the extent to which differences or inequality in policy congruence between higher and lower educated voters are moderated by policy domains. Instead of measuring inequality across all areas of policy, this study takes a policy domain-specific approach. The analyses are based on a dataset containing voters and party positions on 50 policy statements, gathered in the run-up to the 2009 regional election in Belgium largest region, Flanders. We find, overall, only small and unsubstantial, though significant, differences, in policy congruence between higher and lower educated voters, in favor of the former. However, we find a much larger representational bias towards higher educated when we look at transportation, culture and media, immigration, taxand budgetary policy, and economic policy. At the same time, differences in policy congruence are lower as regards spatial planning. Studying inequality in policy congruence across policy domains thus hides more complex patterns of representational bias. |