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Zudenkova, Galina - 2011

This paper studies the impacts of party discipline on allocation of scarce federal resources among national districts. In particular, I model the distribution of government spending within a two-party legislature as an asymmetric contest game between congress members, in which the majority party...

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Transparency in parliamentary voting

Benesch, Christine; Bütler, Monika; Hofer, Katharina E. - 2015

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 …

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The three meaningful votes : voting on Brexit in the British House of Commons

Aidt, Toke; Grey, Felix; Savu, Alexandru - 2019

Why do politicians rebel and vote against the party line when high stakes bills come to the floor of the legislature? We leverage the three so-called Meaningful Votes that took place in the British House of Commons between January and March 2019 on the Withdrawal Agreement that the Conservative...

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Does a district-vote matter for the behavior of politicians? : a textual analysis of parliamentary speeches

Born, Andreas; Janssen, Aljoscha - 2020

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 …

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