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Replication data for: Multidimensional Representation

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Title Replication data for: Multidimensional Representation
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/79RI4R
 
Creator Wolkenstein, Fabio
Wratil, Christopher
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The study of representation is a major research field in quantitative political science. Since the early 2000s, it has been accompanied by a range of important conceptual innovations by political theorists working on the topic. Yet, although many quantitative scholars are familiar with the conceptual literature, even the most complex quantitative studies eschew engaging with the “new wave” of more sophisticated concepts of representation that theorists have developed. We discuss what we take to be the main reasons for this gap between theory and empirics, and present four novel conceptions of representation that are both sensitive to theorists’ conceptual impulses and operationalizable for quantitative scholars. In doing so, we advance an alternative research agenda on representation that moves significantly beyond the status quo of the field.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Substantive representation
Descriptive representation
Responsiveness
Congruence
Representative claim
Quantitative methods
 
Contributor Wratil, Christopher
 
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