Séminaire du mardi - 1er octobre 2019

Le mardi 1er octobre 2019, Peter Loewen, professeur de science politique à l'Université de Toronto, présentera les résultats d'un travail qui analyse la relation entre les origines de législateurs nommés (et non élus) et leurs motivations à représenter les intérêts des citoyens issus de « leur » groupe.

 

Titre : Intrinsic Motivations to Represent Marginalized Groups in a Democracy: Evidence from an Unelected Legislature

 

Résumé : Do legislators from marginalized groups have intrinsic motivations to represent ‘their’ group? Previous observational and experimental research on this question focuses on elected politicians and is thus unable to fully disentangle a legislator’s intrinsic motivations from their need to win re-election. We address this limitation by observing the decision-making of appointed legislators who, by institutional design, have no re-election motive whatsoever. We administered to Canadian senators and their staff a novel survey instrument that captured how they prioritized learning about the policy opinions of various groups of citizens. We show that senators’ group identities—particularly those associated with racial and regional minorities—influenced which group’s views they chose to learn about. The findings refine the central conclusion of the literature and have implications for the study not only of unelected legislators but also of elected officials in settings where public monitoring is weak.

 

Où? Quand?

Pavillon Lionel-Groulx

Université de Montréal

Local C-4145

12h-13h

 

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