Every Single Word: A New Data Set Including All Parliamentary Materials Published in Germany

Remschel, Tobias; Kroeber, Corinna

doi:10.1017/gov.2020.29

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“…In addition, we control for the possibility that the substantial focus of the work of MPs affects the likelihood to deviate. Focus area accordingly measures the frequency of oral parliamentary questions raised in a specific policy area per MP and election period based on data from Tobias Remschel and Corinna Kroeber (2020). If the motion voted upon lies in the expertise area of an MP, we expect a higher likelihood of defection.…”

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When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour

Dingler

Ramstetter

2021

Gov. & oppos.

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It is common wisdom that the increase in the number of women in parliament brought along a new diversity of perspectives presented in legislatures. So far, however, we know little about the implications of women's presence on party cohesion. Moving towards a more complete understanding of how women affect political processes, this article addresses the question, does gender affect vote defection from party lines, and if so, under what circumstances? We argue that the actual and perceived risk associated with vote defection in roll-call votes is gendered and that this is constraining the leeway of women to rebel. Analysing roll-call vote data of the German Bundestag (1953–2013) provided by Bergmann et al. (2018), we show that gender exerts a consistent effect only if electoral safety and policy content are considered: it is in feminine policy areas and at high levels of electoral security that women are more likely than men to rebel. This finding implies that taking different incentive structures into account is key if we want to understand gendered legislative behaviour.

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When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour

Dingler

Ramstetter

2021

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“…For the Bundestag, this is one of the first accounts of a relational variable predicting MP success. Besides more methodological advanced inquiries, replicating this analysis in a comparative design can be seen as logical next step, as data becomes more and more available (Briatte, 2016; Remschel and Kroeber, 2022). With the empirical evidence presented here, further inquiry into parliamentary social networks seems more beneficial than before.…”

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“…MPs leaving or entering the parliament mid-term were excluded from the analysis. In the meantime, more convenient ways to acquire this data have become available (Remschel and Kroeber, 2022).…”

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Survival of the social? Effects of intra-party cooperation on MP renomination

Bucher

2023

Party Politics

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Parties are the nucleus of modern parliaments. Therefore it is crucial to understand cooperation and competition within parties. In most parliaments, we can observe some form of cooperation, like cosponsorship. In this paper, cosponsorship is used to identify the relationships of MPs within their parliamentary party group, and to infer whether this relational position has an effect on their reselection. Are better embedded and connected MPs more likely to be reselected? Do peers matter in reselection? This question is also of theoretical interest in the light of competing principals (Carey, 2007). The empirical analysis first replicates the model of MP renomination by Baumann et al. (2017), adding a new data set from the German Bundestag, used to provide the relational independent variables of cosponsorship centrality. The key finding of the analysis is indeed: cosponsorship closeness is a significant predictor of MP reselection and can be seen as a compelling complement to the model by Baumann et al. With cooperation shown to be significant when it comes to renomination, the understanding of peer-induced competition, competing principals theory can be further developed, to aid our understanding of MP cooperation and competition, delegation, agency and collective principals in modern parties.

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“…Accordingly, our dependent variables are the changes in usage of three different oversight instruments: questions, minor requests, and proposals. We retrieve information on the frequency with which MPs make use of these instruments from the 'Every Single Word' data base by Remschel and Kroeber (2022).…”

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Whose bread I eat, their song I sing? How the gender of MPs influences the use of oversight mechanisms in government and opposition

Kroeber

Krauss²

2023

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This article is the first to show that gender shapes the degree to which legislators use formal mechanisms to oversee government activities. Extensive scholarly work has analysed the use of oversight instruments, especially regarding who monitors whom. Whether, how, and why the conformity of men and women with institutional roles differs, has not yet received scholarly attention. We hypothesise that women become more active than men in overseeing the executive when in opposition while reducing their monitoring activities even more strongly than men when in government because of different social roles ascribed to men and women as well as differences in risk aversity between sexes. We analyse panel data for three oversight tools from the German Bundestag between 1949 and 2013 to test this proposition. Our findings imply that characteristics of political actors influence even a strongly institutionalised process as oversight and further clarify the gender bias in political representation.

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Every Single Word: A New Data Set Including All Parliamentary Materials Published in Germany

Cited by 8 publications

References 59 publications

When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour

When Does She Rebel? How Gender Affects Deviating Legislative Behaviour

Survival of the social? Effects of intra-party cooperation on MP renomination

Whose bread I eat, their song I sing? How the gender of MPs influences the use of oversight mechanisms in government and opposition

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