Der migrationsspezifische Einfluss auf parlamentarisches Handeln: Ein Hypothesentest auf der Grundlage von Redebeiträgen der Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestags 1996–2013

Blätte, Andreas; Wüst, Andreas M.

doi:10.5771/0032-3470-2017-2-205

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“…We controled for three indicator variables: PhD Degree captures MPs who possess a doctorate, High Job indicates MPs with jobs that require sophisticated linguistic skills (e.g. doctors, college professors), and Migration Background marks those MPs with a migration background (Blätte and Wüst, 2017). We suspect that MPs who are older, possess a PhD or have a high-status job that requires higher linguistic skills tend to use more sophisticated language than other colleagues in the parliament.…”

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Making comprehensible speeches when your constituents need it

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Osnabrügge

2018

Research & Politics

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Parliamentary speech is a prominent avenue that political elites can use in parliament to communicate with the electorate. However, we have little understanding of how exactly Members of Parliament craft their speeches to communicate with the districts they represent. We expect that Members of Parliament adapt the comprehensibility of their speeches to their constituents’ linguistic skills since doing so facilitates effective communication. Using parliamentary speeches from the German Bundestag, we reveal that Members of Parliament tend to make their speeches less complicated when their constituents are relatively poor, less educated, and come from an immigration background. Our findings have important implications for the study of political representation and communication strategies.

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Osnabrügge

2018

Research & Politics

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“…To be sure, many immigrant-origin citizens may have a specific interest in migration-related issues, including the issue of refugees and asylum. Thus, scholars often look for migration-related content in parliamentary behaviour when examining questions of the substantive representation of immigrant-origin citizens (Blätte and Wüst 2017;Wüst 2014a;Saalfeld and Bischof 2013;Saalfeld 2011). However, migration-related policy preferences may differ across different groups of immigrantorigin citizens (Heath et al 2013, chap.…”

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“…Our understanding of the phenomenon has benefited from a number of recent contributions analysing the determinants of issue attention to immigration in party manifestos (Kortmann and Stecker 2017;Ruedin and Morales 2017;Green-Pedersen and Otjes 2017). Less is known, by contrast, about the politics of immigration-related speechmaking (but see Blätte and Wüst 2017). However, as speeches on the floor provide legislators and their parties a publicly exposed stage to communicate issue priorities and policy positions, they are important tools of political communication and representation (Proksch and Slapin 2015;Bäck and Debus 2016;Bächtiger 2014).…”

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“…Two literatures raise attention to individual motives as potential drivers of speechmaking. First, intrinsic motives flowing from the personal experiences of legislators who themselves or whose parents have a migratory history may lead to more speech attention to the issue of refugees and asylum as compared to other legislators (Searing 1994;Searing 1991;Wüst 2014a;Saalfeld and Bischof 2013;Saalfeld 2011;Blätte and Wüst 2017). A second literature argues that, depending on their individual re-election contexts, legislators have extrinsic motives to talk about policy issues that dominate the political agenda (Mayhew 1974;Carey and Shugart 1995;Carey 2009;Zittel and Gschwend 2008;André, Depauw, and Martin 2015).…”

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Immigration-related Speechmaking in a Party-constrained Parliament: Evidence from the ‘Refugee Crisis’ of the 18th German Bundestag (2013–2017)

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2019

German Politics

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Immigration-related speechmaking in a party-constrained parliament: evidence from the 'refugee crisis' of the 18th German Bundestag (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017) The 18th Bundestag term was marked by a high salience of the refugee and asylum issue dominating the political agenda. Taking this context as a case study, this paper asks which factors make legislators talk about immigration on the parliamentary floor. Three different literatures provide different answers to this question. A first literature highlights that immigrant-origin legislators with a visible background may have intrinsic motives to talk about immigration. A second literature raises attention to legislators' personal vote-seeking incentives to talk about immigration when the issue is electorally decisive. Contrary to these first two literatures, a third literature posits that legislative debates do not provide legislators the leeway to follow individual motives on the parliamentary floor, but that parliamentary party groups (PPGs) control access to the parliamentary floor and thus follow own strategies when allocating floor time to speak about the immigration issue. To examine this puzzle of competing expectations, a corpus of more than 10,000 speeches is leveraged, utilising a structural topic model, a novel method of quantitative text analysis. Results suggest that legislators' speech attention to the refugee and asylum issue in the 18th Bundestag was mainly shaped by PPG specific factors rather than by their individual motives.

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“…Dieses Verhalten scheint sich auch nicht gegen Ende der parlamentarischen Laufbahn abzuschwächen . Ähnliche Befunde wurden auch aus Untersuchungen parlamentarischer Reden berichtet (Bird, 2011;Blätte & Wüst, 2017). In ihrer Zusammenschau bestätigen diese Arbeiten daher die Vermutung, dass deskriptive Repräsentanten benachteiligter sozialer Gruppen in der Tendenz auch eine stärkere intrinsische Motivation haben, die spezifischen Interessen dieser Gruppen zu repräsentieren Phillips, 1995Phillips, , 1998 politisch einflussreicher und prestigeträchtiger Parlamentsämter 12 umfassen .…”

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Institutionelle Mechanismen politischer Repräsentation in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft

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Der migrationsspezifische Einfluss auf parlamentarisches Handeln: Ein Hypothesentest auf der Grundlage von Redebeiträgen der Abgeordneten des Deutschen Bundestags 1996–2013

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Making comprehensible speeches when your constituents need it

Making comprehensible speeches when your constituents need it

Immigration-related Speechmaking in a Party-constrained Parliament: Evidence from the ‘Refugee Crisis’ of the 18th German Bundestag (2013–2017)

Institutionelle Mechanismen politischer Repräsentation in der Einwanderungsgesellschaft

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