What drives an incumbent legislator's desire for re-election? Drawing on two MP surveys from 2003 and 2011, the paper seeks to answer this question. The bi-variate and multivariate statistical models focus on the explanatory power of a few individual variables: parliamentary experience and...

Do MPs’ change their voting behavior following an electoral reform? Under such circumstances, are there different explanations for MPs’ loyalty towards their PPGs? This paper answers these questions by investigating the individual variation in voting loyalty across two legislative terms...