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100			_aKaplan, Y.R. T Sheafer, T. Waismel-Manor, I. and Shenhav, S.R. _949253
245			_a People’s sense of political representation and national stories: The case of Israel
260			_aInternational Political Science Review
300			_a45(4), Sep, 2024: p.552-567
520			_aPrevious research on political representation mainly focused on representatives but has overlooked individuals’ sense of inclusion within the greater group: the nation. Building on narrative theory, we propose a novel mechanism that fosters a feeling of political representation—a similarity between individuals’ personal-national stories and the collective-national metanarrative of the polity. Metanarratives are shared dominant stories that present a community with desirable social conventions. While they seek to represent the nation, metanarratives are not entirely inclusive and do not appeal to all citizens. We argue that individuals who do internalize the metanarrative feel more represented. To demonstrate our theoretical expectations, we use election surveys and constitutive texts to capture national stories and metanarratives. We find that indeed respondents whose national story is closer to a nation’s metanarrative feel more represented by the political system.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01925121231185576
650			_aPolitical representation, National identity, National stores, Meanarratives, Story similarity, Collative. Representation. Political representation, National identity, National stores, Meanarratives, Story similarity, Collative. Representation. _949254
773			_aInternational Political Science Review v
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