When legislators choose not to decide: Abstentions in the European Parliament
| Autor: | Nikoleta Yordanova, Monika Mühlböck |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Health (social science) Parliament media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology 0506 political science Representation (politics) Voting Political science Law Political Science and International Relations 050602 political science & public administration Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | European Union Politics. 18:323-336 |
| ISSN: | 1741-2757 1465-1165 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/1465116517694369 |
| Popis: | Why do legislators choose to vote ‘Abstain’ instead of ‘Yea’ or ‘Nay’? Is it because they shy away from taking sides when facing competing demands? We address this question by studying roll-call vote data on the sixth European Parliament. In line with our principal–agent approach, we find that Members of the European Parliament are prone to strategically abstain when torn between different positions of their national party, their transnational party group, and their country’s minister. Abstentions are thus not random but strategic and ignoring them may bias the findings of legislative studies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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