Abstract
This chapter examines the congruence between voters and their preferred party on the economic and cultural cleavages. It describes political representation on both cleavages at the macro and micro levels. The chapter determines whether voters as a collective find a party that well represents their positions, or if they satisfice with a party that only partially reflects their views. There is a very close collective fit between voters and their chosen party in the two-dimensional space. Then the chapter examines the fit between voter and party for each individual voter. While there is strong voter-party congruence at the macro level, this relationship weakens at the micro level. This produces a tension between collective representation and individual-level views of representation.
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