Congruence and responsiveness scores cannot distinguish responsiveness to wanted change from unwanted change.

Evidence

Note: Percentages refer to the share of policies that fall into each category in each case, summing to 100% in each row. In case 1, the public receives all the change it wants, but when it does not want change, it still receives it half the time. In case 2, the public only gets half the change it wants, but does not get any change it does not want. But in both cases, the congruence and responsiveness scores are the same. — Mikael Persson and Anders Sundell, Blocking the Poor, 46

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Two distributions with opposite democratic characters collapse to identical summary scores, undermining the standard measurement of representation itself.
• SEED: Article angle: ‘Your Representation Score Is Lying’ — how aggregate congruence metrics hide whether governments impose change the public never asked for.