The Most Unkindest Cuts: Speaker Selection and Expressed Government Dissent during  Economic Crisis

Herzog, Alexander; Benoit, Kenneth

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“…Why do legislators speak in parliament? We follow the literature arguing that politicians use their time on the floor for credit claiming, or as a means of highlighting MPs' positions to voters and other political actors (Herzog and Benoit 2015;Maltzman and sigelman 1996;Martin and vanberg 2007;Mayhew 1974;Proksch and slapin 2010). among other things, MPs use their speeches to signal their constituencies that their position is responsive to the needs of the district.…”

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Economic Decline and Extreme‐Right Electoral Threat: How District‐Level Factors Shape the Legislative Debate on Immigration

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Olander

2018

Legislative Studies Qtrly

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This research examines the degree to which legislators respond to their districts by analyzing immigration‐related legislative speeches from the Swedish parliament (2005–16). Using a text‐scaling method, we find that the immigration discourse fluctuates between “socioeconomic responsibility” and “cultural difference” poles. We argue that socioeconomic declines and extreme‐right party success serve as an indication to MPs that there is demand for “cultural difference” rhetoric on immigration. Our statistical analyses support the argument and demonstrate that district‐level economic declines can lead to an increase in the salience of cultural framing of migrants, especially in districts with a higher share of foreign residents. We also find that district‐level extreme‐right electoral success has a significant influence on legislative immigration discourse. Overall, the results have implications for studies of legislative texts, dyadic representation, and the impact of the populist right on legislative politics in Europe.

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Economic Decline and Extreme‐Right Electoral Threat: How District‐Level Factors Shape the Legislative Debate on Immigration

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Olander

2018

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“…To determine the latter, the categorical coding scheme developed by the Conflict and Mediation Event Observation (CAMEO) 32 Adams, Ezrow, and Somer-Topcu 2014;Adams, Ezrow, and Wlezien 2016. 33 Herzog and Benoit 2015;Martin and Vanberg 2008;Proksch and Slapin 2015;Pardos-Prado and Sagarzazu 2016;Schwarz, Traber, andBenoit 2017. 34 Grimmer 2013;Grimmer, Westwood, and Messing 2015;Sagarzazu and Klüver 2017.…”

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“…4 See, e.g., Bakker et al 2015;Budge et al 2001. 5 See, e.g., Grimmer 2013;Grimmer, Westwood, and Messing 2015;Herzog and Benoit 2015;Pardos-Prado and Sagarzazu 2016;Proksch and Slapin 2015;Sagarzazu and Klüver 2017;Schwarz, Traber, and Benoit 2017. 6 Hoff, Raftery, and Handcock 2002;Hoff 2005. 7 That is, in a one-dimensional space, they are both placed to the left or the right of the zero point.…”

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The Impact of Economic Crises on Political Representation in Public Communication: Evidence from the Eurozone

Weschle¹

2017

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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External threats such as war have been shown to disrupt representation as politicians 'put politics aside' and cooperate across cleavages. This article examines whether a severe economic crisis can have a similar effect. It introduces a new approach that provides a spatial representation of how political parties represent societal actors in their public interactions, based on more than 140,000 machine coded news events from eleven eurozone countries between 2001 and 2011. The study shows that in bad economic times, there is a compression of political representation: parties' relationships with the societal groups they are closest to become less cooperative, while their relationships with the groups they are least close to become less conflictual.

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“…The behavioural dimension has received less attention, like when and for what purpose MPs use control institutions. Still, studies demonstrate an association between parliamentary control and opposition activity (Herzog & Benoit 2015). Parliamentary questioning, for instance, to a high extent is opposition activity (Damgaard 1994;Mattson 1994;Rasch 1994;Maor 1999;Green-Pedersen & Mortensen 2010;Dandoy 2011;Martin & Vanberg 2014).…”

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MP Firefighting and the Partisan Logic

West

2020

Scand Pol Stud

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Control of executive power is a central accountability concern. This article focuses on ways for parliament and MPs to assist the voter in this important task. Parliamentary systems empower parliaments by a range of control institutions, but the role of political parties challenges MPs incentives to engage in control of government. This article focuses on Fire Alarm control activity, but argues that Fire Alarms call for MP Firefighting. In parliament, MPs have the opportunity to respond to reports from decentral control institutions about government mal‐administration. Building on models of rational politicians, this paper investigates when MPs in fact engage in Firefighting related to Fire Alarm cases from the Ombudsman and audit institution. The article argues that MPs engage in Firefighting when it serves partisan purposes. The paper relies on a medium‐N dataset of reports from the Faroese Ombudsman and Audit General (52 cases) and applies a mixed‐method research design. The results show that the partisan logic dominates MP Firefighting. Opposition MPs use government mistakes to damage government reputation. However, the paper argues of the possibility of a more parliamentarian outcome, since focus on Fire Alarm cases puts pressure on government to make amends.

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The Most Unkindest Cuts: Speaker Selection and Expressed Government Dissent during Economic Crisis

Abstract: Original citation:Herzog, Alexander and Benoit, Kenneth (2015) The most unkindest cuts: speaker selection and expressed government dissent during economic crisis.

Cited by 50 publications

References 36 publications

Economic Decline and Extreme‐Right Electoral Threat: How District‐Level Factors Shape the Legislative Debate on Immigration

Economic Decline and Extreme‐Right Electoral Threat: How District‐Level Factors Shape the Legislative Debate on Immigration

The Impact of Economic Crises on Political Representation in Public Communication: Evidence from the Eurozone

MP Firefighting and the Partisan Logic

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