The significance of roll calls in voting bodies: A model and statistical estimation

King, Gary

doi:10.1016/0049-089x(86)90012-8

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“…Among these, the most prominent are the examination of how different styles in the organisation of the timetable affect the legislative process, and the examination of how decisions to allocate more or less time for a discussion influence the strategic interactions among party leaders and backbenchers. In addition, the fact that salient and divisive bills are granted more plenary time has implications for studying voting behaviour in legislatures, especially for measuring the importance of legislative votes (see King, 1986; Riker, 1959). These topics have been touched upon only marginally in the present work, but they may constitute fruitful directions for future work.…”

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Setting Parliamentary Calendars: How Parties Allocate Time for Plenary Debates on Bills

2015

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Compared to other aspects of agenda control, the organisation of legislative calendars has received scarce scholarly attention. However, setting the floor timetable affects parliament's decisions and may therefore become crucial for understanding the policy-making process better. This article examines the allocation of speaking time for plenary debates on bills by combining an interparty perspective with a focus on the agenda-setting powers of collective directing bodies in the parliament. It shows that, due to time pressures, parties have to make explicit trade-offs among bill proposals. Using an original dataset including information about 472 bill proposals scheduled for floor debates in three Italian legislative terms in the period 2001-13, the article provides evidence that parties agree to schedule longer debates for divisive and salient issues, while they decide to move more quickly on less divisive proposals.

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Setting Parliamentary Calendars: How Parties Allocate Time for Plenary Debates on Bills

2015

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“…The issue of the relative importance or significance of a bill has despite efforts by Riker () and King () been largely ignored in the studies using legislative voting behaviour in the attempt to understanding competition within a legislative assembly. This is even more remarkable as the issue is more than just a methodological question, as also highlighted by Patty ().…”

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“…Although the distinction between important and significant legislation is far more than a nuance, studies dealing with the significance of legislation are few. Riker () proposed a measurement using the turnout on votes and the closeness of the vote to derive an index of significance (further extended by Bax ), but as King () showed, leaving out the closeness of the vote and focusing only on turnout yields a useful expression of the significance of the vote. However, as argued by Riker (), the method he developed was done so specifically for Congress and would require some adjustment to be used in other legislatures.…”

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All Votes are Equal? Significant Legislation and Party Competition in the Danish Folketing

Hansen

Fazekas

2015

Scand Pol Stud

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In nearly all studies on legislative party competition, all votes are treated equally. It is argued in this article that the cooperation between parties varies substantively depending on the type of legislation analysed. However, establishing a measure of the relative significance of votes has challenged legislative studies for decades. A novel measure for legislative significance is therefore proposed: length of debate. Using parliamentary votes from 23 legislative periods in the Danish parliament from 1953 to 2003 and debate length as measurement for bill significance, analyses are presented that focus on between-party voting patterns on significant and nonsignificant legislation and the presence, extent and features of legislative cartels is discussed. The results suggest that looking only at significant legislation reveals more clearly the legislative cartels within the legislature. These findings challenge the traditional assumption of treating parliamentary votes equally, and they allow for a better understanding of legislative cartels in the Folketing.

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“…On this topic generally, seeRiker (1959),King (1986), andHug (2006). This point is more than methodological, since differentiation of roll call votes is relevant when considering whether a legislator is serving his or her constituents' interests (e.g (Coates and Munger 1995;.…”

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Dilatory or anticipatory? Voting on the Journal in the House of Representatives

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2009

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The significance of roll calls in voting bodies: A model and statistical estimation

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Setting Parliamentary Calendars: How Parties Allocate Time for Plenary Debates on Bills

Setting Parliamentary Calendars: How Parties Allocate Time for Plenary Debates on Bills

All Votes are Equal? Significant Legislation and Party Competition in the Danish Folketing

Dilatory or anticipatory? Voting on the Journal in the House of Representatives

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