(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 …

We provide new evidence on the effects of economic shocks on political support, voting behaviour and political opinions … of their observable characteristics, pre-existing political support and voting behaviour. We find consistent, long …

politicians who vote against the party line in roll-call votes. The results do not show that parties account for the voting …