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 …

Recent scholarship heralds the emergence of programmatic legislative parties in Brazil capable of acting in a … legislative parties to limit executive policy discretion via direct policy-making. Results show that legislative party discipline …