做好你的工作,保住你的席位:国会议员立法对连任的因果效应

IF 2.4 3区 社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE
Serika Atsumi
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摘要

区分个人投票和政党投票本身就是一项挑战,目前还不清楚它们在每个国家的作用程度。本研究采用私人议员议案的投票作为工具变量来考察立法行为是否影响政党制度高度制度化的英国的选举结果。调查结果显示,与上次选举相比,立法行为使保守党议员的投票份额增加了2.6个百分点。然而,鉴于政党投票的高度突出,这一增长仅足以改变不到10%选区的选举获胜者。此外,对于反对党议员来说,立法行为在任何方面都没有影响。然而,这一结果表明,即使在党派竞争激烈、国会议员在议会中的自主权有限的情况下,个人投票也存在。
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Do Your Job, Keep Your Seat: The Causal Effect of MPs' Legislation on Reelection

Do Your Job, Keep Your Seat: The Causal Effect of MPs' Legislation on Reelection

Distinguishing between personal and party votes is inherently challenging, and it remains unclear to what extent they function in each country. This study employs the ballot of a private member's bill as an instrumental variable to examine whether legislative behavior influences electoral outcomes in the United Kingdom, which has a highly institutionalized party system. The findings reveal that legislative behavior increases the vote share of Conservative MPs by 2.6 percentage points compared to the previous election. However, given the high prominence of the party vote, this increase is only large enough to change the electoral winner in just under 10% of the constituencies. Furthermore, for opposition MPs, legislative behavior had no effect in any respect. Nevertheless, this result suggests that personal votes exist even in an unlikely case—when party competition is intense and MPs have limited autonomy in Parliament.

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Legislative Studies Quarterly
Legislative Studies Quarterly POLITICAL SCIENCE-
CiteScore
2.60
自引率
13.30%
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36
期刊介绍: The Legislative Studies Quarterly is an international journal devoted to the publication of research on representative assemblies. Its purpose is to disseminate scholarly work on parliaments and legislatures, their relations to other political institutions, their functions in the political system, and the activities of their members both within the institution and outside. Contributions are invited from scholars in all countries. The pages of the Quarterly are open to all research approaches consistent with the normal canons of scholarship, and to work on representative assemblies in all settings and all time periods. The aim of the journal is to contribute to the formulation and verification of general theories about legislative systems, processes, and behavior.
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