Von „Abweichlern“ und „Überzeugungstätern“

Bauer-Blaschkowski, Svenja; Mai, Philipp

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-22663-3_10

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“…For unwhipped votes, existing studies mainly investigate the impact of personal and constituency preferences on the direction of MPs' voting decisions. those preferences have either been measured directly using survey data (for personal preferences, see raymond 2017a, 2017b; raymond and Overby 2016; raymond and Worth 2017; for constituency preferences, see Hanretty et al 2017) or approximated using sociodemographic characteristics Party Socialization and Dissenting Voting Behavior of the MP (arzheimer 2015;Baumann et al 2013Baumann et al , 2015Bauer-Blaschkowski and Mai 2019;engler and dümig 2017;Hibbing and Marsh 1987;Overby et al 1998;Plumb 2015;Preidel 2016;Wenzelburger and Fehrenz 2018) and/or the sociodemographic composition of an MP's constituency as proxies (Baumann et al 2013;Haider-Markel 1999;Hibbing and Marsh 1987;Kauder and Potrafke 2019;Mai et al 2022;Overby et al 2011). in addition, the MPs' party affiliation has proved to be a significant predictor of voting in favor of permissive or restrictive morality policies, respectively (engler and dümig 2017; stuart 1997, 2010;Hibbing and Marsh 1987;Overby et al 1998;Plumb 2015;raymond 2017a, 2017braymond and Overby 2016;raymond and Worth 2017).…”

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Loyal Activists? Party Socialization and Dissenting Voting Behavior in Parliament

Mai

Wenzelburger

2023

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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The question of why members of parliament (MPs) overwhelmingly toe the party line is receiving increasing scholarly attention. Adding to discipline‐based approaches, party loyalty, that is, a feeling of allegiance not related to policy agreement or disciplinary pressures, is an important part of the explanation. In this article, we employ a more nuanced view on party loyalty than previous observational studies and conceptualize it as the result of socialization processes of most politicians into the structures of their party prior to their mandate. We test our argument quantitatively using data for whipped votes in the German Bundestag (1949–2017). The results support our propositions that MPs who didn't hold party offices prior to their mandate have a higher probability of vote defection and that the behavioral differences related to pre‐parliamentary socialization vanish the longer MPs serve in parliament. Our work has important implications for research on intraparty politics, legislative behavior, and representation.

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