Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System

Schürmann, Lennart; Stier, Sebastian

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dc.contributor.author	Schürmann, Lennart	de
dc.contributor.author	Stier, Sebastian	de
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-16T15:20:25Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-16T15:20:25Z
dc.date.issued	2023	de
dc.identifier.issn	1939-9162	de
dc.identifier.uri	https://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/88573
dc.description.abstract	Members of parliament (MPs) are elected via two different tiers in mixed‐member electoral systems - as winners of a seat in a constituency or as party candidates under proportional rules. While previous research has identified important consequences of this "mandate divide" in parliaments, questions remain how this institutional setup affects MPs' political behavior in other arenas. Analyzing more than one million social media posts, this article investigates regional representation in the online communication of German MPs. The results show that MPs elected under a direct mandate refer approximately twice as often to their constituencies by using regionalized wording and geographic references than MPs elected under the proportional tier. The substantive findings provide new evidence for the benefits of mixed‐member electoral systems for political representation while the methodological approach demonstrates the added value of social media data for analyzing the political behavior of elites.	de
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Politikwissenschaft	de
dc.subject.ddc	Political science	en
dc.subject.ddc	Publizistische Medien, Journalismus,Verlagswesen	de
dc.subject.ddc	News media, journalism, publishing	en
dc.subject.other	mandate divide; mixed‐member electoral systems; regional representation	de
dc.title	Who Represents the Constituency? Online Political Communication by Members of Parliament in the German Mixed‐Member Electoral System	de
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.identifier.url	localfile:/var/tmp/crawlerFiles/deepGreen/4b80640c4660448797811b3ee409a451/4b80640c4660448797811b3ee409a451.pdf	de
dc.source.journal	Legislative Studies Quarterly
dc.source.volume	48	de
dc.publisher.country	USA	de
dc.source.issue	1	de
dc.subject.classoz	politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur	de
dc.subject.classoz	Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture	en
dc.subject.classoz	interaktive, elektronische Medien	de
dc.subject.classoz	Interactive, electronic Media	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politische Kommunikation	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political communication	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Abgeordneter	de
dc.subject.thesoz	representative	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Wahlkreis	de
dc.subject.thesoz	electoral district	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Verhältniswahl	de
dc.subject.thesoz	election by proportional representation	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politisches Verhalten	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political behavior	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Repräsentation	de
dc.subject.thesoz	representation	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Soziale Medien	de
dc.subject.thesoz	social media	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Facebook	de
dc.subject.thesoz	facebook	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Twitter	de
dc.subject.thesoz	twitter	en
dc.subject.thesoz	politisches Mandat	de
dc.subject.thesoz	political mandate	en
dc.subject.thesoz	Bundesrepublik Deutschland	de
dc.subject.thesoz	Federal Republic of Germany	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-88573-5
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Namensnennung, Nicht-kommerz. 4.0	de
dc.rights.licence	Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0	en
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dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.source.pageinfo	219-234	de
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dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1111/lsq.12379	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Veröffentlichungsversion	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Published Version	en
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