LEADER 03526nam 22005775 450 001 9910881094203321 005 20240818130242.0 010 $z9783031542909 010 $z3031542908 010 $a9783031542916$b(electronic book) 010 $a3031542916$b(electronic book) 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-031-54291-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31606747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31606747 035 $a(CKB)34075068100041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-031-54291-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)9934075068100041 100 $a20240818d2024 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#|||a|||a 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRetrospective Pledge Voting and Political Accountability $eThe Costs of Broken Promises /$fby Theres Matthieß 205 $a1st ed. 2024. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer Nature Switzerland :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2024. 215 $a1 online resource (255 pages) $cillustrations 311 08$aPrint version: Matthieß, Theres Retrospective Pledge Voting and Political Accountability Cham : Palgrave Macmillan,c2024 9783031542909 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Election pledges, democratic representation and voting -- 2. How pledge performance affects voting -- 3. A threefold empirical investigation of RPV -- 4. RPV at the aggregate level: Evidence from observational data -- 5. RPV at the group level: Evidence from survey data -- 6. RPV at the micro level: Evidence from experimental data -- 7. New evidence on RPV -- 8. A good or bad sign for democracy?. 330 $aThis book examines retrospective pledge voting; the phenomenon of whether and under which conditions citizens are likely to withdraw their support for political parties that have failed to turn their pre-election pledges into tangible policies once they have joined government. It puts forward a new theoretical framework on retrospective pledge voting. Whilst one would expect voters to punish government parties that have broken their promises by refusing to vote for them at the next election, little research has been done to show whether, and under what contexts, this is actually the case. Adopting a multi-methods approach, the book demonstrates that citizens do punish government parties that have shown a poor performance in fulfilling their election pledges, and that more sceptical citizens withnegative pre-existing opinions punish pledge breakage more severely. Bringing together research on election pledges, government performance and voting, the book will appeal to all those interested in democratic representation, politics, public policy, and voter-party linkages. Theres Matthieß is Assistant Professor of Empirical Democracy Research at the University of Göttingen, Germany. 606 $aElections 606 $aPolitical leadership 606 $aPolitical science 606 $aElectoral Politics 606 $aPolitical Leadership 606 $aGovernance and Government 615 0$aElections. 615 0$aPolitical leadership. 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 14$aElectoral Politics. 615 24$aPolitical Leadership. 615 24$aGovernance and Government. 676 $a324.6 700 $aMatthiess$b Theres$f1988-$01768761 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910881094203321 996 $aRetrospective pledge voting and political accountability$94233073 997 $aUNINA