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This book started with the seemingly puzzling controversy between citizens’ and scholars’ descriptions of whether politicians tend to keep their election promises. This “pledge puzzle” now seems less puzzling. It is obvious that we can mean different things by a fulfilled election promise. The question for this chapter is what this result tells us about representative democracy in a wider sense.
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Naurin, E. (2011). Promising Democracy. In: Election Promises, Party Behaviour and Voter Perceptions. Public Sector Organizations. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230319301_8
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