The Subnational Connection in Unitary Regimes: Progressive Ambition and Legislative Behavior in Uruguay

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Chasquetti ◽  
Juan Pablo Micozzi
Keyword(s):  
Legislative Behavior ◽  
Progressive Ambition

scholarly journals MALCOLM EDWIN JEWELL

2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (03) ◽  
pp. 585-587
Author(s):  
Bradley C. Canon
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Science ◽  
The Political ◽  
Legislative Behavior ◽  
Science Department ◽  
University Of Kentucky ◽  
Political Science Department ◽  
The University

Malcolm “Mac” Jewell was a mainstay of the Political Science Department at the University of Kentucky (UK) for 36 years. For that same period and even longer, he was one of the profession's leading researchers in explaining legislative behavior (particularly in the states) and how state political parties worked. Mac retired from UK in 1994 but continued being active in our profession. Around 2004, he began suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He died on February 24, 2010, in Fairfield, Connecticut.

When and Where Do Women's Legislative Caucuses Emerge?

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 671-694 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Mitchell Mahoney ◽  
Christopher J. Clark
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
Event History Analysis ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Legislative Behavior ◽  
Ability To Act ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Institutional Norms ◽  
Favorable Conditions

Women have organized around their gendered identity to accomplish political goals both inside and outside legislatures. Formal and informal institutional norms shape the form this collective action takes and whether it is successful. What, then, are the favorable conditions for organizing women's caucuses inside legislatures? Using an original dataset and employing an event history analysis, we identify the institutional conditions under which women's caucuses emerged in the 50 US states from 1972 to 2009. Within a feminist institutional framework, we argue that women's ability to alter existing organizational structures and potentially affect gender norms within legislatures is contextual. Although we find that women's presence in conjunction with Democratic Party control partially explains women's ability to act collectively and in a bipartisan way within legislatures, our analysis suggests that institutional-level variables are not enough to untangle this complicated phenomenon. Our work explains how gender and party interact to shape legislative behavior and clarifies the intractability of institutional norms while compelling further qualitative evidence to uncover the best conditions for women's collective action within legislatures.

scholarly journals COMPORTAMENTO LEGISLATIVO E GASTO PÚBLICO: AS RESPOSTAS DISTRIBUTIVISTAS AO PROBLEMA DO “COMMON POOL” (LEGISLATIVE BEHAVIOR AND PUBLIC EXPENDITURES – DISTRIBUTIVE RESPONSES TO COMMON POOL PROBLEMS)

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
Fernando Moutinho Ramalho Bittencourt
Keyword(s):  
Public Expenditures ◽  
Legislative Behavior ◽  
Common Pool

O artigo explora um aspecto específico da teoria distributivista dos estudos legislativos, tal como apresentada originalmente a partir de David Mayhew: a tendência a gerar gastos fiscais subótimos (superiores ao custo total dos impostos utilizados para financiá-los). Após o contraste entre as abordagens alternativas de Mayhew e Arnold para explicar teoricamente o problema, discute-se as consequências das soluções apresentadas para a aplicabilidade dessa teoria.

scholarly journals Election proximity and representation focus in party-constrained environments

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge M. Fernandes ◽  
Cristina Leston-Bandeira ◽  
Carsten Schwemmer
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Context ◽  
Legislative Behavior ◽  
Party Size ◽  
Parliamentary Democracies ◽  
Electoral Cycle ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Constrained Environments ◽  
Written Questions ◽  
Elected Representatives ◽  
Over Time

Do elected representatives have a time-constant representation focus or do they adapt their focus depending on election proximity? In this paper, we examine this overlooked theoretical and empirical puzzle by looking at how reelection-seeking actors adapt their legislative behavior according to the electoral cycle. In parliamentary democracies, representatives need to serve two competing principals: their party and their district. Our analysis hinges on how representatives make a strategic use of parliamentary written questions in a highly party constrained institutional context to heighten their reselection and reelection prospects. Using an original dataset of over 32000 parliamentary questions tabled by Portuguese representatives from 2005 to 2015, we examine how time interacts with two keys explanatory elements: electoral vulnerability and party size. Results shows that representation focus is not static over time and, in addition, that electoral vulnerability and party size shape strategic use of parliamentary questions.

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