Working as a team: Do legislators coordinate their geographic representation efforts in party-centred environments?

Why do legislators engage in geographic representation party-centred electoral systems, where they face weak re-election incentives to cultivate a personal vote? Existing research offers cross-pressuring incentive structures and intrinsic localism motivations as individual-level factors explain this puzzle. In article, we propose an alternative argument based on the principle of collective action within party-internal labour division. We argue that elected same multi-member district under party label (party delegations) share vote-seeking collaborate with each other order strike balance between benefits individual costs constituency-oriented activities. Results from comparative study written parliamentary questions Germany Spain support our argument. Specifically, suggests attributes interact team composition delegations shape constituency-orientated behaviour.