"Understanding when political representation breaks down - with Isabelle Guinaudeau

A widely held opinion is that many electoral promises "only engage those who listen to them." With the project "Unequal mandate responsiveness?" (UNEQUALMAND), Isabelle Guinaudeau (CNRS research associate at CEE), Theres Matthieß (University of Trier), and Elisa Deiss-Helbig (University of Stuttgart) aim to study, in Germany and France, the groups to whom electoral promises are addressed and how these groups react to their formulation and (non-)fulfillment.

Read the interview with the three researchers leading the project (published in December 2022, this article is an adaptation of a text originally published in German by the University of Trier in its magazine KonzenTRiert; interview conducted by Peter Kuntz).