Representational Roles

Dudzińska, Agnieszka; Poyet, Corentin; Costa, Olivier; Weßels, Bernhard

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“…Our analysis, based on survey data that covers 1475 national and regional legislators in 9 European countries, supports the hypothesis that dual mandate-holders are more likely to adopt a local focus of representation, especially stressing the municipal level. Whereas many studies found limited evidence for the impact of individual characteristics and backgrounds on legislators' role perceptions (Brack et al 2012;Dudzinska et al 2014), suggesting that roles are rather shaped by institutional features, our study shows to the contrary that individual dual mandate-holders subjectively feel close to their local constituents. Notwithstanding their subjective aspirations, dual office-holders appear to struggle to behave accordingly.…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Whereas many studies find that representative foci are predominantly determined by institutional features such as the electoral system or the party one belongs to (e.g. Brack et al 2012;Dudzinska et al 2014;Weßels 1999), our results suggest that individual characteristics also matter. In addition, our analysis demonstrates that territorial foci should not always be defined too broadly.…”

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confidence: 86%

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Is All Politics Indeed Local? A Comparative Study of Dual Mandate‐Holders’ Role Attitudes and Behaviours in Parliament

Voorde

Vet

2020

Swiss Political Sci Review

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The practice of dual mandate‐holding, i.e. the simultaneous occupation of a political mandate at the (sub)national and the local level, is understudied in the comparative literature. Dual mandate‐holders embody the most direct link between local and central government, yet research has disregarded whether these actors actually feel and act as local ambassadors in parliament. In this article, we study whether councillors in parliament feel responsive for local grievances in terms of their respective role attitudes and behaviour, using the PARTIREP Comparative MP Survey. The estimated regression models demonstrate that dual mandate‐holders indeed perceive themselves as local brokers, even when controlling for various systemic‐, party‐ and individual‐level factors. On the other hand, they struggle to translate their localized attitudes into localized parliamentary behaviour, which could call one of the main arguments in favour of dual mandate‐holding into question.

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Is All Politics Indeed Local? A Comparative Study of Dual Mandate‐Holders’ Role Attitudes and Behaviours in Parliament

Voorde

Vet

2020

Swiss Political Sci Review

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“…Norris (2006: 92) claims that the breadth of career choices is shaped by three factors: (1) the centralization of the internal nomination process; (2) the level of participation in nominations; (3) the scope of the decision-making process. Based on these, ambitious politicians change career strategies and perceptions of the own political role (e.g., Dudzińska et al, 2014). Additional works falling into the intra-organizational category may be found among legislative studies, according to which the internal division of labor of modern parliaments fosters MP's specialization and the development of different professional skills (e.g., Judge, 1981;Hall and Grofman, 2014).…”

Section: Structure and Political Careers: Context-oriented Approachesmentioning

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Approaches and lessons in political career research: Babel or pieces of a patchwork?

Vercesi

2018

Rev. Esp. Cienc. Polít.

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Political careers are a classic subject of elite studies. Scholars have sought to understand what affects political profiles and career patterns' formation. However, political career research is characterized by a variety of approaches and explanations, which often do not communicate each other. A framework that integrates existing contributions is lacking, and this undermines the process of accumulation of knowledge. A comprehensive assessment of the literature is necessary in view of this potentially welcomed undertaking. After a conceptual introduction, I provide here a general overview of the approaches used in political career research, classifiable into two main schools. It is stressed their theoretical arguments, methodological strategies, and deficits. The note will provide bases for developing further the research field, by underling epistemological, theoretical, and methodological lessons. ResumenLas carreras políticas son un tema clásico en los estudios de las elites. Los investigadores han intentado entender qué influye sobre los perfiles políticos y la formación de los patrones de carrera. Sin embargo, la investigación sobre las carreras políticas se caracteriza por una variedad de enfoques y explicaciones que con frecuencia no se comunican entre sí. La falta de un marco que integre las contribuciones existentes mina el proceso de acumulación de conocimiento. En vistas de asumir esta tarea, es necesaria una evaluación comprensiva de la literatura. Después de Michelangelo VercesiRevista Española de Ciencia Política. Núm. 48. Noviembre 2018, pp. 183-206 una introducción conceptual, se ofrece aquí un panorama general de los enfoques utilizados en la investigación sobre carreras políticas, que pueden clasificarse en dos "escuelas" principales. Se subrayan sus argumentos teóricos, estrategias metodológicas, y carencias. Esta nota de investigación proveerá bases para el futuro desarrollo de este campo de investigación, subrayando lecciones epistemológicas, teóricas y metodológicas.Palabras clave: elites políticas, carreras políticas, enfoques teóricos, caminos hacia el poder, reclutamiento político.

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“…In France, the electoral system for European elections is proportional with closed-list and large district 6 magnitude. Hence, this system does not give incentives for cultivating personal vote and, thus, to spend time in the district (Carey & Shugart, 1995;Dudzinska, Poyet, Costa, & Wessels, 2015). However, when the number of parties is high, candidates, mainly seniors, and frontbenchers, are invited by their party to develop ties in their districts.…”

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Working at home: French MEPs’ day-to-day practice of political representation in their district

Poyet

2018

The Journal of Legislative Studies

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In the early 2000s, Simon Hix and his colleagues declared EP constitutes a good laboratory to test theories and hypotheses about legislative or party behavior. However, scholars mainly focused on roll-call votes analysis allowing them to investigate voting behavior, coalitions formation as well as activities in technical committees. We argue that work in Parliament should not be investigated without considering constituency work. Surprisingly, despite the institutionalization of district work, only a few studies focused on micro-level linkages between MEPs and citizens. The results show that MEPs are in contacts with citizens having matter with the EU but not directly with their constituents. In the district, MEPs are more experts of the EU than members of the community. By investigating day-today contacts between citizens and their MEPs, this paper offers a new perspective on the debate about the democratic deficit of EP and EU institutions.

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Representational Roles

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Is All Politics Indeed Local? A Comparative Study of Dual Mandate‐Holders’ Role Attitudes and Behaviours in Parliament

Is All Politics Indeed Local? A Comparative Study of Dual Mandate‐Holders’ Role Attitudes and Behaviours in Parliament

Approaches and lessons in political career research: Babel or pieces of a patchwork?

Working at home: French MEPs’ day-to-day practice of political representation in their district

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