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100			_aPoljak, Željko and Russell, Annelise _955703
245			_a All talk, no action? Politicians’ agenda responsiveness to citizens’ engagement on social media
260			_aPolitical Research Quarterly
300			_a78(2), Jun, 2025: p.495-508
520			_aStudies have shown that citizens’ engagement on social media drives politicians to adapt the issues they discuss online. However, for representative democracy to function effectively, politicians must not only discuss these issues but also act on them. This paper explores whether higher citizens’ engagement on social media shapes the issues politicians address online and leads to substantive agenda responsiveness, such as proposing legislation or raising issues in parliament. To do this, we examined over 370,000 Facebook posts by more than 350 politicians in Australia, Belgium, and the United States. Our results indicate that higher citizens’ engagement on politicians’ own social media regarding an issue increases the likelihood of politicians promoting concrete legislative or parliamentary actions related to that issue, regardless of the issue’s salience. These findings highlight social media’s role in informing and motivating politicians’ agenda responsiveness, with important implications for the current state of representative democracy.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129241309296
650			_aAgenda-setting, Agenda responsiveness, Public opinion, social media, Citizens engagement. _955704
773			_aPolitical Research Quarterly
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