Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches

Does a district mandate matter for the behavior of politicians? An analysis of roll-call votes and parliamentary speeches

In most democracies, members of parliament (MPs) are elected either through a party list or by a district. We use a discontinuity in the German electoral system to investigate the causal effect of a district election on an MP’s conformity with the party line. A district election does not affect roll...

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Main Authors: BORN, Andreas, JANSSEN, Aljoscha
Format: text
Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
Subjects:
Party line
Textual analysis
Regression discontinuity
Parliamentary speeches
Voting
Political Economy
Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/2532
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/3531/viewcontent/1_s2.0_S017626802100063X_main.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English

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