Abstract Communication is a fundamental step in the process of political representation, and an influential stream research hypothesizes that male female politicians talk to their constituents very different ways. To build broad dataset necessary for this analysis, we harness massive trove communication by American through Twitter. We adopt supervised learning approach begins with hand coding o...

Do direct elections reduce political dynasties? Or do they displace dynastic continuation to the non-elected chamber in bicameral systems? Using historical data on family links of Dutch legislators, this paper examines a revolutionary change selection rules for chambers parliament after 1848. Before 1848, there were few differences between legislators across chambers. About seventy percent eith...

The article examines the conditions under which female legislators are more likely to act on behalf of electorates through two underexplored cases – South Korea and Taiwan. Specifically, it investigates effect three seat share, electoral rules, legislator characteristics legislators’ sponsorship women’s issue bills using an original bill submission dataset. finding shows that, one hand, increas...

Abstract Through an innovative analysis of audio recordings plenary speeches, Dietrich, Hayes, and O'Brien (2019) find that women in the U.S. House Representatives speak with greater emotional intensity about than other issues. With vocal pitch as a new measure personal issue commitment, finding suggests legislators' efforts to work on behalf result from intrinsic motivation. I ask whether same...

Scholars employ two main measures of the executive constraints embedded in European Union laws: one is based on variation use different types restrictions, and second frequency such use. They reflect alternative conceptualizations bureaucratic control. We label them, respectively, as “toolbox perspective” “design perspective”. illustrate that constraint measure poses fewer validity problems est...