The Internet provides new opportunities for political communication. How strategic are constituency candidates in exploiting these new opportunities and what are the contexts driving their choices? This paper envisions the Internet as a means for personal vote seeking on the campaign trail...

Local Campaigns are frequently studied phenomena in the context of first past the post voting systems such as the UK. They draw less attention in proportional list systems or mixedmember systems. Students of electoral politics assume for these systems a predominant role of political parties...

What are the sources of legislators’ role orientations? The debate on this topic entertains two contradictory visions. Early role theorists perceive roles from a structural-functionalist perspective and highlight particular socio-structural variables as explanations for particular...