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 …

Members of Parliament (MPs) was instrumental in this. We find that three factors influenced their rebellion calculus: the MP …

probabilistic model of political crises and test it empirically. We find that during crises, parties in the parliament are likely to … model. We define survival of a crisis as being successful in a critical vote in the parliament. We develop a general … vote independently of each other. Thus, we receive as an empirical result what the previous voting power literature assumed. …