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meaning that representation is high when representatives hold the same policy positions as their constituents. The congruence can be estimated as the distance between the government and the median voter for individual countries. Recent research shows that the ideological opinion-policy relationship is upheld for both foreign and domestic affairs, although foreign affairs and defense policy were long considered immune to public pressure. According to Hanna F. Pitkin's The Concept of Representation (1967),

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