Die Kandidatenaufstellung zur Bundestagswahl: Analyse der Nominierungen von CDU und SPD in Baden-Württemberg zur Bundestagswahl 2009
In: German politics, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 442-443
ISSN: 1743-8993
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In: German politics, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 442-443
ISSN: 1743-8993
In: Swiss political science review: SPSR = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft : SZPW = Revue suisse de science politique : RSSP, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 16-40
ISSN: 1662-6370
AbstractMost policy‐making decisions taken in parliamentary democracies are essentially matters of party competition. Yet, in some policies, the linkage function of political parties is limited by purpose, which is frequently the case in free votes with a morality dimension. This has led to a debate in the literature on the determinants of Legislators' preferences in free votes. The present research note adds to this debate by analyzing the parliamentary procedure to regulate pre‐implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) in Switzerland. By assessing whether and to what degree MPs based their decision on their personal characteristics and on the preferences of their constituents, the contribution shows that not only are MPs' voting decisions determined by these individual level factors, but also that these factors have detectable effects on the legislative outcome.
In: Scandinavian political studies, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 366-387
ISSN: 1467-9477
Parliamentary party groups typically comprise members of parliament (MPs) with diverse preferences and different personal issue emphases. At the same time, speaking in plenary debates is a scarce resource controlled and allocated by parliamentary party group leaders. This has led recent research to investigate how speakers for plenary debates are selected. This contribution connects with this literature by asking whether MPs' personal issue emphases deviate from their parliamentary party groups' issue emphases. In order to answer this question, the issue emphases which individual MPs devote to a set of issues in an open access parliamentary instrument is measured and compared to the emphases MPs devote to these issues in speeches. The results for the 2005–9 legislative period of the Norwegian Storting indicate that MPs differ in how closely aligned their issue emphases are in these two instruments and that these differences vary in a way consistent with theories on candidate selection and individualized MP behaviour.
In: Scandinavian political studies: SPS ; a journal, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 366-387
ISSN: 0080-6757
In: Arbeitspapiere 167
In: Institut für Baustatik und Konstruktion 43
In: Institut für Baustatik und Konstruktion ETH Zürich 88
In: Journal of elections, public opinion and parties, Band 30, Heft 4, S. 542-549
ISSN: 1745-7297
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 27, Heft 3, S. 515-527
ISSN: 1460-3683
Parties should develop a consistent issue profile during an electoral campaign. Yet, manifestos, which form the baseline for a party's programmatic goals in the upcoming legislative period, are usually published months before Election Day. We argue that parties must emphasize policy issues that are of key relevance to their likely voters in the last weeks of the election campaign, in which an increasing share of citizens make up their minds in terms of which party they will choose. To test this notion empirically, we draw on a novel data set that covers information on party representatives' statements made during the final weeks of an election campaign in nine European countries. Focusing on the campaign messages of social democratic and socialist parties, we find that these parties indeed intensify their emphasis of unemployment policy, which is a salient issue for their core voter clienteles, particularly in times of economic hardship.
In: Legislative studies quarterly, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 681-711
ISSN: 1939-9162
Political representation in European democracies is widely considered partisan and collectivist. This article, however, stresses that there is more to the representative process in European democracies than just its textbook version. It emphasizes the role of geographic representation as a complementary strategy in party‐dominated legislatures that is characterized by two distinct features. First, legislators employ distinct opportunities to participate in legislative contexts to signal attention to geographic constituents without disrupting party unity. Second, these activities are motivated by individual‐ and district‐level characteristics that supplement electoral‐system‐level sources of geographic representation. We empirically test and corroborate this argument for the German case on the basis of a content analysis of parliamentary questions in the 17th German Bundestag (2009–13). In this analysis, we show that higher levels of localness among legislators and higher levels of electoral volatility in districts result in increased geographic representation.
In: International journal of social welfare, Band 28, Heft 4, S. 404-417
ISSN: 1468-2397
Parliamentary debates and the discussion on different law proposals are a key part of the process of policy making. We argue in this article that a high economic problem pressure in the region an MP represents will affect the MP's legislative speechmaking. We also hypothesise that parties tend to coordinate their speakers in parliament to display a cohesive profile in the domain of labour, employment and immigration issues, i.e., in issue areas which reflect redistributive policies that are highly salient for almost all parties. We evaluate our expectations based on an analysis of Swedish parliamentary debates on labour, employment and immigration policy during the period between 1994 and 2014. The findings show that parliamentary parties coordinate speechmaking: Those MPs who represent economically troubled districts are less likely to appear in plenary debates, as well as MPs who deviate programmatically from the party line.
Parties should develop a consistent issue profile during an electoral campaign. Yet, manifestos, which form the baseline for a party's programmatic goals in the upcoming legislative period, are usually published months before Election Day. We argue that parties must emphasize policy issues that are of key relevance to their likely voters in the last weeks of the election campaign, in which an increasing share of citizens make up their minds in terms of which party they will choose. To test this notion empirically, we draw on a novel data set that covers information on party representatives' statements made during the final weeks of an election campaign in nine European countries. Focusing on the campaign messages of social democratic and socialist parties, we find that these parties indeed intensify their emphasis of unemployment policy, which is a salient issue for their core voter clienteles, particularly in times of economic hardship.
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Band 79, Heft 3, S. 979-994
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: Politische Vierteljahresschrift: PVS : German political science quarterly, Band 58, Heft 2, S. 179-204
ISSN: 1862-2860