Strategic Behaviour in Parliament

Bütikofer, Sarah; Hug, Simon

doi:10.1080/13572334.2014.997988

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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

et al. 2016

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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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Self-Selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys

Bundi¹,

Varone²,

Gava³

et al. 2016

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“…Strategic behavior is an important component for MPs, as several studies have illustrated the importance of strategic voting in parliaments (Farquharson, 1969;Clinton & Meirowitz, 2004;Rasch, 2014;Bütikofer & Hug, 2015;Hug et al, 2015). Moreover, MPs also express their strategic nature by the use of parliamentary requests (Bowler, 2010;Martin, 2011b;Kellermann, 2013Kellermann, , 2015Martin & Rozenberg, 2014).…”

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Parliamentarians’ strategies for policy evaluations

Bundi

2018

Evaluation and Program Planning

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This article considers the question of which strategies parliamentarians pursue when they use parliamentary requests demanding an evaluation. In order to be re-elected or to achieve desirable policies, parliamentarians can either appeal to their constituency or to their party by adopting legislative roles. The study is based on twelve case studies of parliamentary requests from the Swiss parliament between 2010 and 2014. The analysis shows that parliamentarians of legislative committees submit parliamentary requests to oppose a policy, while parliamentarians of oversight committees submit parliamentary requests to obtain information on specific policies. On the contrary, the party membership of the responsible Federal Councillor does not influence the strategy. These findings suggest that parliamentarians use evaluations as an instrument rather than using the actual findings. This conclusion might be very relevant to understand how evaluations are used in the political process.

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“… Politicians consider the electoral implications of their roll‐call votes (Bütikofer and Hug, ). The extent to which voters take into account politicians’ roll‐call voting behavior, see Ansolabehere and Jones (). …”

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Conservative Politicians and Voting on Same-sex Marriage

Kauder

Potrafke

2019

German Economic Review

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We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same‐sex marriage when they run for office in safe rather than in contested districts using new data based on a roll‐call vote in the national German parliament. The results show that the margin of the majority for the incumbent in the previous election was a strong predictor for supporting same‐sex marriage. When the majority increased by a 1 percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same‐sex marriage decreased by around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election‐motivated – even when submitting roll‐call votes on a matter of conscience.

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Strategic Behaviour in Parliament

Cited by 8 publications

References 59 publications

Self-Selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys

Self-Selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys

Parliamentarians’ strategies for policy evaluations

Conservative Politicians and Voting on Same-sex Marriage

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