{"id":2286,"date":"2020-09-09T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T14:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2020-09-15T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T14:06:05","slug":"legislative-empowerment-and-the-policy-opinion-link-in-social-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/09\/legislative-empowerment-and-the-policy-opinion-link-in-social-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Empowerment and the Policy-Opinion Link in Social Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are public policies closer to public opinion when directly elected, independent legislatures are included in the decision-making process? This study by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics-international-relations\/people\/3358\/sorace-miriam\">Miriam Sorace<\/a> exploits the European Union as a case, to examine whether the empowerment of the European Parliament decreased the incongruence of EU policies to European public opinion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/convention2.allacademic.com\/one\/apsa\/apsa20\/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Paper&amp;selected_paper_id=1636798&amp;PHPSESSID=n9gp5jtmtgpvabnldvl0q1gau8\">https:\/\/convention2.allacademic.com\/one\/apsa\/apsa20\/index.php?cmd=Online+Program+View+Paper&amp;selected_paper_id=1636798&amp;PHPSESSID=n9gp5jtmtgpvabnldvl0q1gau8<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are public policies closer to public opinion when directly elected, independent legislatures are included in the decision-making process? This study by Miriam Sorace exploits the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/2020\/09\/09\/legislative-empowerment-and-the-policy-opinion-link-in-social-policy\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67700,"featured_media":2288,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[807,131000,131002,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67700"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2287,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions\/2287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/polir-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}