We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency … affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While …-consuming screening of online videos. In 2014, halfway through the legislative period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. Since …

her party-line. A district-election does not affect roll call voting behavior causally, possibly due to overall high … adherence to party voting. Analyzing the parliamentary speeches of each MP allows us to overcome the high party discipline with … regard to parliamentary voting. Using textual analysis and machine learning techniques, we create two measures of closeness …

are related to distribution of voting power in the EU Council of Ministers as reflecting the influence of member states … political parties, is there a difference between a priori voting power of national groups in the case of nationalʺ coordination … of voting and in the case of partisanʺ coordination of voting? By coordination of voting we mean two step process: in the …