Parliamentary Work, Re-Selection and Re-Election: In Search of the Accountability Link

Papp, Zsófia; Russo, Federico

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“…A burgeoning area of research on the link between parliamentary activism and political careers posits that engagement in parliamentary activities increases MPs’ career prospects (Baumann, Debus, and Klingelhöfer 2017; Borghetto and Lisi 2018; Ciftci and Yildirim 2017; Fernandes, Leston-Bandeira, and Schwemmer 2017; Hermansen 2018; Louwerse and Otjes 2016; Maltzman and Sigelman 1996; Papp and Russo 2018; Searing 1994; Slapin and Proksch 2010). Representatives engage in parliamentary activities for a number of reasons, namely, for influencing the legislative agenda (Green-Pedersen 2010; Green-Pedersen and Mortensen 2010), signaling interest in particular issues (Vliegenthart and Walgrave 2011; Vliegenthart, Walgrave, and Zicha 2013), and for credit-claiming and position taking (Maltzman and Sigelman 1996, 821).…”

Section: Parliamentary Activities Party Nominations and Female Parlmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We expect to find that taking the legislative floor has a differential effect on the career prospects of men and women in the parliament. To recap, previous scholarship showed that engagement in parliamentary activities helps MPs get renominated and promoted in the party list (Borghetto and Lisi 2018; Hermansen 2018; Papp and Russo 2018; Yildirim, Kocapınar, and Ecevit 2017) and allow them to signal interest in issues that matter most for the public, media, and party leadership (Vliegenthart and Walgrave 2011; Vliegenthart, Walgrave, and Zicha 2013). Engagement in parliamentary activities may be of crucial importance especially for women in parliament, as women competing with men in male sex-typed jobs often need to display masculine qualities (Amanatullah and Tinsley 2013; Güneş-Ayata and Tütüncü 2008).…”

Section: Status Incongruity and Backlash Against Women In Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

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Ecevit

2019

Political Research Quarterly

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The literature on nomination procedures and intra-party politics shows that engagement in personalized parliamentary activities helps legislators get re-elected and promoted in the party list. However, as a considerable body of scholarly work suggests, women in leadership positions who are perceived to disconfirm the well-known gender stereotypes by being “too assertive” and “agentic” in the workplace may suffer from what social psychologists call the “backlash effect” (i.e., facing economic and social sanctions). Integrating insights from the literatures on perceptions of female leadership and intra-party politics, we reveal the differential effect of legislative speechmaking on the career prospects of male and female members of parliament (MPs). Specifically, using an original dataset of over thirty-five thousand parliamentary speeches and the biographies of 2,140 MPs who served in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey between 1995 and 2011, we show that the well-documented positive effect of engagement in parliamentary activities on career prospects holds for male MPs, but not for their female counterparts. In fact, we found that female MPs who were active on the legislative floor were significantly less likely to get renominated and promoted in the party rank. These results imply that the challenges facing women in leadership positions go beyond electoral competition.

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Section: Parliamentary Activities Party Nominations and Female Parlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Status Incongruity and Backlash Against Women In Politicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

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Kocapınar

Ecevit

2019

Political Research Quarterly

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“…There have been numerous publications documenting the impact of constituency-oriented activities on reelection (Norris, 1997;Wolak, 2017;Chiru, 2018). There is however less real-world evidence concerning the effectiveness of MPs' personal vote-seeking strategies through work inside the parliament (Papp and Russo, 2018). The purpose of this article is specifically to bridge this gap by asking whether MPs' behaviors and performance within the parliamentary arena are related to their chances of staying in office.…”

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Voters reward hard-working MPs: empirical evidence from the French legislative elections

Audigier

Navarro

2019

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This paper studies the relationship between incumbent MPs’ activities and their electoral fortune. We address this question in the context of the French political system characterized by an executive domination, a candidate-centered electoral system, and an electoral schedule maximizing the impact of the presidential elections. Given the contradictory influence of these three institutional features on the relationship between MPs’ activities and electoral results, the overall link can only be assessed empirically. We test the effects of several measurements of MPs’ activities on both their vote share and reelection probability in the 2007 legislative election. We show that MPs’ activities are differently correlated to both the incumbents’ vote shares in the first round and their reelection. Despite the weakness of the French National Assembly, several parliamentary activities, especially bill initiation, have a significant effect on MPs’ electoral prospects.

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“…Individual parliamentary work is a prerequisite for the responsiveness of political systems, and the repetition of elections is supposedly a powerful incentive encouraging Members of Parliament (MPs) seeking re‐election to fulfil their role effectively (Mayhew ). Building on the idea of a personal vote (Cain, Fiorina, and Ferejohn ), a growing body of research shows that hard‐working MPs receive extra votes in subsequent elections and are consequently more likely to be re‐elected (Bouteca et al ; Papp and Russo ). This literature specifically investigates the type of activities and mechanisms that make a difference (Sulkin et al ), such as general retrospective judgements on the incumbents’ competence (Kulisheck and Mondak ), constituency‐oriented activities (Chiru ), the initiation of legislation (Bowler ; Däubler et al ), or particular styles of representation (Martin ).…”

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Voters’ Knowledge of Their Representatives: The Direct and Conditioned Effects of Parliamentary Work

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Navarro

2020

Swiss Political Sci Review

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This article examines factors that influence voters’ knowledge of their representatives, a key element in securing the responsiveness and accountability of parliamentarians. We argue that the parliamentary work of MPs (Members of Parliament) benefits incumbents through increased name recall, and that this relationship is conditional on: the incumbents’ candidacy; the voters’ political competence; and their ideological proximity with their representatives. Combining data on French MPs’ activities with a 2007 CSES post‐election survey enables us to test our hypotheses, while controlling for confounding factors. The empirical analysis demonstrates that some parliamentary activities increase the voters’ capacity to recall the name of their MPs. The latter are therefore incentivised to be responsive to and serve their constituents. However, we also find that voters’ political competence and ideological proximity with their MP alter the relationship between parliamentary work and name recall. This may potentially introduce some biases in the democratic process of accountability.

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Parliamentary Work, Re-Selection and Re-Election: In Search of the Accountability Link

Cited by 16 publications

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Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

Status Incongruity and Backlash against Female Legislators: How Legislative Speechmaking Benefits Men, but Harms Women

Voters reward hard-working MPs: empirical evidence from the French legislative elections

Voters’ Knowledge of Their Representatives: The Direct and Conditioned Effects of Parliamentary Work

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