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Autor:
Stefanie Bailer, Tomas Turner-Zwinkels, Philip Manow, Elena Frech, Niels D. Goet, Simon Hug, Oliver Huwyler
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 47(3), 761-784. Wiley
Legislative Studies Quarterly (2022)
Legislative Studies Quarterly (2022)
Reliably answering questions about representation and parliamentary behaviour requires data about which parliamentarian was where, and at what time. However, parliament membership is not stable over time. For example, it is common for politicians to
Issue Engagement Across Members of Parliament: The Role of Issue Specialization and Party Leadership
Autor:
Markus Wagner, Thomas M. Meyer
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 46:653-678
Studies on political communication in multiparty democracies usually focus on political parties as unitary actors and how they engage with each other in election campaigns. We deviate from this approach and study how issue engagement (i.e., the degre
Autor:
Jack Blumenau
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 46:889-920
By making it easier for citizens to communicate their preferences, online forms of political participation have the potential to strengthen the representational link between politicians and voters. However, we know little about the effects of online
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 46:493-523
How and why do the activities of members of parliament (MPs) change in response to electoral constraints? In this paper, we draw on unique and newly collected data from the Swiss federal chambers and two cantonal parliaments (Basel-Stadt and Basel-La
Publikováno v:
Legislative studies quarterly, 2020, Vol.45(4), pp.645-678 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
When Members of Parliament (MPs) disagree publicly with their party, this provides a signal to voters regarding both their political views and their character valence. We argue that the strength of this signal to voters depends on the personal career
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 44:163-193
Parliamentary debates provide an arena where Members of Parliament (MPs) present, challenge, or defend public policies. However, the “plenary bottleneck” allows the party leadership to decide who participates in a debate. We argue that in this de
Autor:
Eitan Tzelgov, Petrus Olander
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 43:649-679
This research examines the degree to which legislators respond to their districts by analyzing immigration-related legislative speeches from the Swedish parliament (2005-2016). Using a text-scaling method, we find that the immigration discourse fluct
Autor:
Simon Hix, Abdul Noury
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 43:551-594
Why do legislators switch party? We seek to identify whether “party switching” is mainly determined by power (to join a more influential party) or ideology (to join a party with closer policy goals). We focus on the 557 cases of political group s
Autor:
Shane Martin, Daniel M. Smith
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 42:131-165
We investigate whether politicians whose family relatives previously served in parliament and cabinet enjoy a competitive "legacy advantage" in progressing from the backbenches to ministerial office. This advantage may stem from two potential mechani
Publikováno v:
Legislative Studies Quarterly. 38:259-282
This study examines when and why members of the European Parliament (EP) use parliamentary questions as a form of fire alarm oversight. We argue that the multilevel nature of the EU political system allows members of the EP from national opposition p