Identifying Intraparty Voting Blocs in the U.K. House of Commons

Spirling, Arthur; Quinn, Kevin M.

doi:10.1198/jasa.2009.ap07115

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“…Any model of voting and rebellion in Westminster must account for two empirical regularities: very high levels of party unity and a government vs. opposition divide (Baughman 2004;Kam 2009;Spirling and Quinn 2010;Dewan and Spirling 2011). Indeed, partisan politics dominates so much of the decision-making calculus of MPs that ideological voting is, at best, a secondary motivation (Hix and Noury 2015).…”

Section: Voting In the Westminster Systemsmentioning

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Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the British Parliament

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Strong party discipline is a core feature of Westminster parliamentary systems. Parties typically compel Members of Parliament (MPs) to support the party position regardless of MPs' individual preferences. Rebellion, however, does occur. Using an original dataset of MP votes and speeches in the British House of Commons from 1992 to 2015, coupled with new estimations of MPs' ideological positions within their party, we find evidence that MPs use rebellion to strategically differentiate themselves from their party. The strategy that MPs employ is contingent upon an interaction of ideological extremity with party control of government. Extremists are loyal when their party is in the opposition, but these same extremists become more likely to rebel when their party controls government. Additionally, they emphasize their rebellion through speeches. Existing models of rebellion and party discipline do not account for government agenda control and do not explain these patterns.

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Section: Voting In the Westminster Systemsmentioning

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Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the British Parliament

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“…12 There have been few attempts to estimate the policy positions of party factions: Bernauer and Bräuninger 2009;Spirling and Quinn 2010. 13 Laver and Benoit 2003. rewards. Strategic portfolio allocation, party loyalty, and disproportional electoral systems that increase the exit costs tend to preserve party unity.…”

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The Politics of Fission: An Analysis of Faction Breakaways among Italian Parties (1946–2011)

Cerón¹

2013

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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This article investigates intra-party politics and explores the determinants of factional breakaways, going beyond the unitary actor assumption. It presents a game-theoretic model that focuses on intra-party competition and bargaining dynamics to analyse the interplay between party leaders and minority factions. It tests several hypotheses based on the formal model using a new dataset that contains information about the strength and policy positions of factions inside Italian parties, from 1946 to 2011, measured through quantitative content analysis of motions presented during party congresses. The results show that office, policy and electoral motives influence factions’ decisions to break away. Other elements – such as intra-party democracy, the electoral system and party system competitiveness – also affect leaders’ attitudes toward compromising and alter the likelihood of a split.

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“…Models of voting blocs [12,32] track the votes of legislators (aye or nay) across multiple bills, with each bill associated with a potentially different concern or issue. Similarly, the latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) model [6] allocates words within documents to a few latent topics with patterns that are meaningful and interpretable.…”

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Personalized market response analysis for a wide variety of products from sparse transaction data

Ishigaki

Terui

Sato

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Int J Data Sci Anal

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Advanced database marketing is designed to ascertain individual customers' market responses with a discount or display of widely various products from transaction data. However, transaction data recorded in a supermarket or electric commerce are fundamentally sparse because most customers purchase only a few products from all products in shops. Existing methods are not applicable to elucidate the personalized response because of a lack of sample size of purchased data. This paper proposes a personalized market response estimation method for a wide set of customers and products from these sparse data. The method compresses a sparse transaction data with information related to response to marketing variables into a reduced-dimensional space for feasible parameter estimation. Then, they are decompressed into original space using augmented latent variables to obtain individual response parameters. Results show that the method can find suitable marketing promotions for individual customers to every analyzed product.

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Identifying Intraparty Voting Blocs in the U.K. House of Commons

Cited by 64 publications

References 33 publications

Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the British Parliament

Ideology, Grandstanding, and Strategic Party Disloyalty in the British Parliament

The Politics of Fission: An Analysis of Faction Breakaways among Italian Parties (1946–2011)

Personalized market response analysis for a wide variety of products from sparse transaction data

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