Full transparency of politicians' actions does not increase the quality of political representation

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We identify the impact of transparency in political decision -making on the quality of political representation with a difference- in-difference strategy. The quality of political representation is measured by observed divergence of parliamentary decisions from revealed voter preferences on the very same issues. Full transparency of votes of individual politicians does not decrease divergence from voter preferences.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: CREMA Working Paper ; No. 2013-17

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General ; Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General ; Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
• Subject: Transparency ; quality of political decisions ; representation ; parliament ; individual votes ; referenda

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Stadelmann, David ; Portmann, Marco ; Eichenberger, Reiner
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA)
• (where): Zürich
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/214541
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET