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The aim of the Degrees of Democracy project is to explore relationships between public opinion and policy. This website provides an introduction to some past research in the field, and describes our ongoing work covering a number of different countries and policy issues. Our analyses are intended to provide insight into how institutional structures and policymaking processes affect some of the most fundamental elements of everyday politics - the quality of representation, the nature of policy change, the degree to which public policies reflect public preferences, and the extent to which preferences reflect changes in public policy.
Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion and Policy has been published by Cambridge University Press. See book reviews in in Perspectives on Politics, Public Opinion Quarterly, European Political Science, Political Science Quarterly, and Political Studies.
Recent related papers include Public Reactions to the Economy and Ecnomic Crisis in the UK, Political Institutions and the Opinion-Policy Link, Federalism and Public Responsiveness to Policy, in Publius: The Journal of Federalism, On the Limits to Inequality in Representation, in PS: Political Science and Politics.
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