This is a report of an analysis of voting power in the Finnish Parliament. The purpose of the analysis was (a) to … reveal some characteristics of the indices for measuring a priori voting power, (b) to discuss the descriptive power of the …

Purpose In this study the authors aim to comprehensively investigate the determinants of voting behavior in Turkey …, with a specific focus on the dynamics of the center-periphery debate. Mainly, the authors focus on regional voting patterns … elections (2007, 2011, 2015 and 2018) across all 81 provinces (NUTS III regions). The authors individually examine voting …

(Regional and Upper-local), as well as data of municipal voting behaviour at three electoral contests held at the different …

We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency … affects the voting behavior of its members. Until 2013, the Council of States (Ständerat) had voted by a show of hands. While …-consuming screening of online videos. In 2014, halfway through the legislative period, the chamber switched to electronic voting. Since …

vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed. …

, but the magnitude of this effect was small and statistically insignificant. In fact, non-voting appears particularly high …