Electoral Mandate and Party Cohesion: Does It Matter in Lithuania?

Clark, Terry D.; Martinaitis, Žilvinas; Dilba, Ramūnas

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“…Some previous exploration of legislative voting in Lithuania has been done (Clark, Martinaitis, and Dilba ; Ishiyama ). Both found some evidence that Lithuanian SMD MPs were more loyal to the party line than PR MPs—in other words, that the electoral connection hypothesis fails in Lithuania.…”

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“…Lithuania is an ideal case to study this question. Its post‐communist parliamentary electoral system consists of 71 SMD seats and 70 noncompensatory PR seats (Clark, Martinaitis, and Dilba , 319). Between 1996 and 2008, its PR seats were allocated through a “flexible” party list—in which parties ranked each politician before the election, but voters were also able to cast preference votes for individual candidates that could alter the parties' original rankings somewhat (the party ranking was weighted much more heavily than preference votes in the formula).…”

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“…Scholars of legislative politics have long debated the importance of the "electoral connection"-the principal-agent ties that bind legislators to their electorates and encourage them to take electorate-friendly positions on legislation (Mayhew 1974). In the comparative literature on legislative party voting, scholars have found some support for the idea that legislators will vote against their party to cultivate a personal vote with their electorate, but findings are not consistent across countries (Clark, Martinaitis, and Dilba 2008;Ferrara 2004;Herron 2002;Ishiyama 2000;Jun and Hix 2010;Kunicova and Remington 2008;Sieberer 2010;Thames 2005Thames , 2007.…”

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How the Party Can Win in Personal Vote Systems: The “Selectoral Connection” and Legislative Voting in Lithuania

Preece

2014

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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Electoral rules can motivate politicians to cultivate a “personal vote” through their legislative voting records. However, I argue that candidate‐selection procedures have the ability to overpower these electoral incentives. This study—the first systematic study of how candidate selection and electoral rules interact—takes advantage of Lithuania's unique mixed electoral rules and fortuitous candidate‐selection procedures. Regardless of electoral rules, MPs whose future careers depend on getting renominated by central party leaders vote against the party less than those whose careers do not. This evidence of a “selectoral connection” suggests candidate‐selection procedures must be studied much more seriously.

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How the Party Can Win in Personal Vote Systems: The “Selectoral Connection” and Legislative Voting in Lithuania

Preece

2014

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“…5 For example, while some cross-national studies report that electoral systems significantly influence party unity, Morgenstern and Swindle show, with data from twenty-three democracies, that the electoral system has no clear effect on whether legislators follow local interests when voting in parliament. See also Clark et al (2008) who show that Lithuanian SMD MPs have higher party unity scores than their list counterparts and Jun and Hix 2010 who report the same for South Korea. 7 Some studies have found that SMD MPs are not significantly more likely to break party unity in parliamentary voting than their PR counterparts once other characteristics -such as party affiliation -are controlled for.…”

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Legislative Effects of Electoral Mandates

Olivella¹,

Tavits²

2013

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Data has been taken from the Hungarian National Assembly, where the mandate type (single member district (SMD) vs. party list or proportional representation (PR)) changes for a number of legislators each term, to explore whether and how such changes lead to changes in legislators' voting behavior. When the electoral system under which a legislator was elected changes from PR to SMD, then the rate at which the legislator defects against the party line of voting increases significantly. Contrary to expectations, when the electoral system changes from SMD to PR, there is no significant change in the voting behavior of legislators. Additional robustness tests confirm these results. The lasting influence of reputations and habits may account for the asymmetric results. * Washington University in St. Louis (emails: olivella@wustl.edu, tavits@wustl.edu). We would like to thank Thames 2005. Another possibility is to compare different legislative chambers in the same country if these chambers employ different electoral rules (see, for example, Desposato 2006). However, these situations are rare, and, therefore, MMS has become a more commonly used setting for studying the causal connection at hand.

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“…Such claims have been made by regarding Lithuania (Clark, Martinaitis, and Dilba ) and Russia (Haspel, Remington, and Smith ).…”

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Party Voting Cohesion in Mixed Member Legislative Systems: Evidence from Korea and Taiwan

Rich

2014

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How do mixed‐member legislative systems influence legislator voting? While the literature remains inconclusive, this article suggests party influence as an intervening variable. Through an analysis of roll‐call data from Taiwan and Korea, no deviation is evident between district legislators and legislators elected by proportional representation. Further disaggregation of what it means to vote against one's party again finds little evidence of a tier distinction, while party variables remain significant. The findings are suggestive of a contamination effect between tiers, consistent with the influence of parties.

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Electoral Mandate and Party Cohesion: Does It Matter in Lithuania?

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