Replication Data for: The Political Representation of Left-Nationalist Voters

There is widespread agreement among scholars that political competition in Western Europe is multidimensional in nature. Most existing studies at the very least distinguish an economic from a cultural dimension of conflict. However, while large segments of the population are found to combine egalitarian and nationalist attitudes, parties adopting that ideological stance are exceedingly rare, if not completely absent. This has implications for the political representation of these so-called ‘left-nationalist’ voters and, more specifically, for their evaluations of the legitimacy of the representative system. In this paper, we put these expectations to the test using the 2017 Dutch Parliamentary Election Study. We show that evaluations of representative democracy vary for different combinations of egalitarian and nationalist attitudes. The findings shed further light on the link between substantive and symbolic representation and, more generally, on the functioning of representative democracy in the Netherlands.学界普遍认为，西欧的政治竞争本质上具有多维度特征。现有绝大多数研究至少会将冲突的经济维度与文化维度加以区分。然而，尽管大量民众同时持有平等主义与民族主义态度，但秉持此类意识形态立场的政党即便未完全绝迹，也极为罕见。这一现象对这些所谓的“左翼民族主义（left-nationalist）”选民的政治代表问题具有启示意义，更具体而言，也影响着这些选民对代议制度合法性的评价。本文基于2017年荷兰议会选举研究（2017 Dutch Parliamentary Election Study）的数据，对上述预期展开检验。研究表明，针对平等主义与民族主义态度的不同组合，民众对代议民主的评价存在差异。本研究结果进一步阐明了实质性代表与象征性代表之间的关联，更广泛而言，也增进了学界对荷兰代议民主运行机制的理解。