Electoral Rewards for Personal Vote Cultivation under PR-STV

Martin, Shane

doi:10.1080/01402380903539003

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“…Ireland's electoral system is strongly candidate-centred and requires incumbents seeking election to cultivate personal votes (Swindle, 2002;Marsh, 2007;Sinnott, 2010;Martin, 2010). Under the proportional representation through the single transferable vote (PR-STV) electoral system, the electorate casts votes for individual candidates rather than political parties, and very often candidates from the same party compete with each other for votes (Gallagher, 2000).…”

Section: Predicting Parliamentarians' Orientation Towards Foreign Affmentioning

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“…This suggestion builds on earlier work, which employed parliamentary questions to measure the intrapolity geographical focus or policy focus of legislators. For example, Martin (2010) explored the function of content analysis of parliamentary questions for detecting legislator's role-orientations towards constituency versus non-constituency interests. Vliegenthart and Walgrave (2011) applied the comparative agenda framework to parliamentary questions in Belgium and Denmark, while Proksch and Slapin (2011) explored the level of executive oversight by Members of the European Parliament through an analysis of questioning patterns.…”

Section: Measuring Legislators' Interest In Foreign Affairsmentioning

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Is All Politics Local? The Role-orientation of Irish Parliamentarians towards Foreign Policy

Martin

2013

Irish Political Studies

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Whereas numerous recent studies have explored the structural and procedural ability of national parliaments to provide oversight of transnational issues such as European integration, the nature of individual parliamentarians' interest in foreign policy is a subject that has received little attention. The general assumption is that electoral incentives and informational deficiencies dissuade parliamentarians from actively engaging politics beyond the domestic realm. This paper suggests an analysis of parliamentary questions as a method for measuring individual parliamentarians' interests in foreign policy. Applying this technique to the Dáil uncovers evidence that, contrary to theory-derived conventional expectations, some parliamentarians do seek to monitor the government's foreign policy agenda. While conventional explanations of legislative role-orientation only weakly predict variations in observed behaviour, elite interviews identify lobbying by interest groups and foreign governments as the motivation for some Irish parliamentarians' engagement in foreign affairs.

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Is All Politics Local? The Role-orientation of Irish Parliamentarians towards Foreign Policy

Martin

2013

Irish Political Studies

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“…In the last couple of years, several studies have conducted surveys in order to study legislative behavior (Aelst, Sehata, Dalen, 2010;Kam et al, 2010;Martin, 2010;Bowler and Farrell, 2011;Zucco and Lauderdale, 2011;Arnold, 2012;Scully, Hix and Farrell, 2012;Bailer et al, 2013;Deschouwer and Depauw, 2014;Bütikofer and Hug, 2015). Although legislative surveys are vulnerable to several methodological problems, they are rarely ever validated (Groves et al, 2011;Fowler Jr., 2013).…”

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Self-Selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys

Bundi¹,

Varone²,

Gava³

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This article discusses the methodological challenges of legislative surveys. Following an overview of different types of survey biases, the article argues that self-selection and misreporting are the most critical problems for legislative surveys. In order to identify the self-selection and misreporting biases, we compare the answers to a survey from Swiss members of parliament with their observed behavior in the parliament. The empirical analysis shows that the survey sample has a substantial misreporting bias. We conclude that the parliamentarian's attitude towards the survey object is strongly linked to their response. These issues should be addressed to improve the design and quality of legislative surveys. †

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“…2 Intra-party competition in Ireland's proportional system incentivizes the use of office perks to improve electoral prospects as candidates must cultivate a personal following to identify themselves as separate from their parties (Martin, 2010;Marsh et al, 2008). The corresponding re-election rate of Irish incumbents is high.…”

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