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Organization (ILO). We distinguish between the instrumental motive for voting, which consists in the chance that one´s vote may …In this empirical paper, we look at individual voting behaviour of government delegates to the International Labour … multinomial logit with country-specific unobserved heteroge-neity, using roll-call votes on the final passage of ILO conventions …
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We use a multivariate hazard model for the analysis of data on the timing of ratifications of different conventions. The model accounts for two random effects, one at the country level and the other at the convention level. We use a semi-parametric Bayesian approach, based on the partial...
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positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
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We analyze the impact of elected competitors from the same constituency on legislative shirking in the German Bundestag from 1953 to 2017. The German electoral system ensures that there is always at least one federal legislator per constituency with a varying number of elected competitors from...
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positions. The dataset includes the voting behavior of 257 MPs in 218 roll-call votes. Our results do not show that parties … account for the voting behavior by punishing politicians who have voted against the party line. Political parties may attract … different groups of voters by tolerating politicians who vote according to their own credo. Qualities other than the voting …
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In this project we explore the relationship between leader change and relations between states. Voting in the United … Naion's General Assembly (UNGA) is often used as a measure of political proximity between countries. We use UN voting …’s voting with the United States. In this paper we explore how leadership change affects UNGA voting. Using differences between …
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We study whether national leaders' foreign education influences their foreign policy, measured by voting behavior at … voting coincidence. To test this theory we make use of data on the educational background of 831 leaders and the voting …. We identify the causal effect of "allegiance" by investigating the differential effect of foreign education on voting in …
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