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

• 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
• Institution: Singapore Management University

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...