Overview
- Provides the first comparative study on political representation in France and Germany
- Mixes quantitative and qualitative methods to cover MPs' attitudes and activities as well as citizens' perpsectives
- Makes an important contribution to the debate on the future of democratic government
Part of the book series: New Perspectives in German Political Studies (NPG)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Political Representation in France
- Political Representation in Germany
- MPs' attitudes in France
- MPs' attitudes in Germany
- German and French comparative politics
- democratic politics
- French public opinion of MPs
- German public opinion of MPs
- representative democracy
- democratic theory
- political representation and communication
- local and regional political relationships
- political trust in France
- political trust in Germany
- activities of French MPs
- activities of German MPs
- german politics
- french politics
- democracy
About this book
Notwithstanding its contemporary critics, political representation remains at the core of democratic politics. Based on a comparative research project that gathered data from observations, surveys, experiments and expert interviews, this book examines the process and the quality of political representation in France and Germany from a dual perspective. First, it analyzes MPs’ behavior during their district activities. Second, it investigates the perceptions and evaluations of the represented, the French and German citizens. In ten chapters different facets of MPs’ activities as well as citizens’ attitudes are comparatively investigated. The book is relevant for Politics scholars and practitioners at national parliaments to better understand representative democracies, and it may also contribute to improve representation itself.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Oscar W. Gabriel is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Stuttgart, Institute for Social Science, Germany. His wide ranging work has particularly focused on political representation in France and Germany. His most recent books are Society and Democracy in Europe (with Silke I. Keil, 2013) and Political Participation in France and Germany (with Silke I. Keil and Eric Kerrouche, 2012).
Eric Kerrouche is CNRS Senior Researcher at Sciences-Po Bordeaux, University of Bordeaux, France. He has widely published on the French Fifth Republic, on Parliament and MPs. His major publications include Political Participation in France and Germany (with Oscar Gabriel and Silke I. Keil, 2012) and Qui sont les députés français? (with Olivier Costa, 2007).
Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer is Professor of Government and Policy Research and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany. She is also Editor-in-Chief of the Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen (ZParl). She has published extensively on parliamentary government, in particular on the German Bundestag, most recently on the status of MPs and their remuneration.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Political Representation in France and Germany
Book Subtitle: Attitudes and Activities of Citizens and MPs
Editors: Oscar W. Gabriel, Eric Kerrouche, Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer
Series Title: New Perspectives in German Political Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72029-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72028-9Published: 12 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10148-0Published: 16 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72029-6Published: 28 June 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-6747
Series E-ISSN: 2947-6755
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 350
Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations
Topics: German Politics, French Politics, Democracy, Comparative Politics