Wouter Schakel
University of Amsterdam
10 Papers
31 Citations
Wouter Schakel is an academic researcher from University of Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Representation (politics) & Politics. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 10 publications. Previous affiliations of Wouter Schakel include Leiden University.
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Papers
Unequal policy responsiveness in the Netherlands
TL;DR: The authors found that policy responsiveness is much stronger for high incomes than for low or median incomes in the Netherlands, while the socioeconomic background of parliamentarians relative to the broader public does not seem to matter.
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Degrees of influence: Educational inequality in policy representation
TL;DR: This paper investigated whether government policy caters more to the preferences of the higher educated than to the preference of the lower educated and found that policy representation is starkly unequal, and that only the highly educated appear to have any independent influence on policy.
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Real but Unequal Representation in Welfare State Reform
TL;DR: This paper used multi-country and multi-wave survey data on attitudes towards health, pension and unemployment policies to data on actual policy generosity, not just spending, in these domains, and found that attitudes strongly correlate with subsequent changes in welfare generosity in the three policy areas, and that such responsiveness is much stronger for richer than for poorer citizens.
Representing the rich: Economic and political inequality in established democracies
Wouter Schakel
- 01 Jan 2020
TL;DR: This article investigated whether and why government policy in established democracies is biased towards the preferences of the rich and showed that the political system is an important pathway through which economic inequality reproduces and potentially magnifies itself.
The Party Road to Representation: Unequal Responsiveness in Party Platforms
Wouter Schakel,Brian Burgoon +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored a major road to substantive representation in democracies, by clarifying whether demands of rich and poor citizens get taken up in the party platforms of political parties and found substantial support for these expectations in a new dataset that combines multi-country, multi-issue-area, mult-wave survey data with data on party platforms for 38 democracies.
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