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members of the Turkish Parliament, we find that losing immunity pacifies the MPs of the opposition parties. They become less … diligent in the Parliament (drafting fewer pieces of legislation, initiating fewer investigation inquiries, delivering fewer … get re-nominated by their parties in the next election, and they are less likely to get re-elected. We find no evidence …
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Prior to July 2009, salaries of the members of the European Parliament were paid by their home country and there were … each member of the Parliament is pegged to 38.5% of a European Court judge's salary, paid by the EU. This created an … are independent of attendance to the Parliament. Using detailed information on each parliamentarian of the European …
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We examine the labor supply of politicians using data on Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). We exploit the …
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This article develops a method for quantitatively tracking the agenda of the British Parliament--by which I mean the …
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We present a model of the U.S. Congress in which social connections among Congress members are endogenous and matter for their legislative activity. We propose a novel equilibrium concept for the network formation game that allows for a sharp characterization of equilibrium behavior and that...
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market responses in recent midterm elections to Presidential elections. We use prediction markets tracking election outcomes …
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This paper links the theory of interest groups influence over the legislature with that of congressional control over the judiciary. The resulting framework reconciles the theoretical literature of lobbying with the negative available evidence on the impact of lobbying over legislative outcomes,...
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The Brazilian Constitution of 1988 gave relatively strong powers to the President. We model and test Executive-Legislative relations in Brazil and demonstrate that Presidents have used pork as a political currency to exchange for votes on policy reforms. In particular Presidents Cardoso and Lula...
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While the theoretical literature on non-cooperative legislative bargaining has grown voluminous, there is little empirical work attempting to test a key prediction in this literature: proposal power is valuable. This paper aims to fill this gap in the literature by investigating the role of...
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of winning the election, the strong prediction of complete policy divergence. The evidence is more consistent with full …
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