All Outputs (18)

Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns (2024)
Journal Article

Most studies of political rhetoric examine only political leadership or treat parties as unified actors. However, what happens where electoral systems incentivise candidates to diverge from stated party messaging during campaigns? This article uses n... Read More about Individual drivers of toxicity in radical right-wing populist legislative campaigns.

Quotas as Game Changers for the Recruitment, Selection, and Performance of Elected Politicians (2024)
Book

Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians (2024)
Journal Article

Gender quotas in legislative elections are a central component of institutional reform to foster women’s inclusion in politics. However, stigma remains that women elected under quotas may be of lower quality than the men that they replace. We investi... Read More about Gender Quota Adoption and the Qualifications of Parliamentarians.

Assessing the Impact of Membership Turnover on Constituent Views of the European Parliament (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter examines the attitudinal dimension of input legitimacy in the EU. It investigates the relationship between personnel turnover in the European Parliament (EP) and citizens’ attitudes toward the EP since the start of direct elections in 19... Read More about Assessing the Impact of Membership Turnover on Constituent Views of the European Parliament.

Individual amending activity in the European Parliament committee system (2021)
Journal Article

Individual amendments at the committee stage offer Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) a valuable tool to change legislation, prior to its passage at the plenary stage. And until a recent rule change, they were also one of the last meaningful w... Read More about Individual amending activity in the European Parliament committee system.

Locating gendered representation in European Union Member States (2020)
Book Chapter

While the EU does not set specific legal requirements for its member states’ electoral systems, it is perhaps one of the world’s best learning laboratories for comparing the effects of electoral design. The EU is also, in many ways, a leader in the p... Read More about Locating gendered representation in European Union Member States.

Reaching out to the voter? Campaigning on Twitter during the 2019 European elections (2020)
Journal Article

This article draws upon the literature on comparative political institutions in order to re-examine the logic of Twitter usage during campaign periods, now that social media has become a standard tool that is used across the political spectrum. We te... Read More about Reaching out to the voter? Campaigning on Twitter during the 2019 European elections.

Assessing the Impact of MEP Careers on National Political Parties in Europe (2020)
Book Chapter

The Consequences of Quotas: Assessing the Effect of Varied Gender Quotas on Legislator Experience in the European Parliament (2019)
Journal Article

Copyright © The Women and Politics Research Section of the American Political Science Association 2019. This article explores the consequences of quotas on the level of diversity observed in legislators' professional and political experience. We exam... Read More about The Consequences of Quotas: Assessing the Effect of Varied Gender Quotas on Legislator Experience in the European Parliament.

Determinants of moonlighting in the European Parliament (2018)
Journal Article

In recent years, several national parliaments have introduced stricter rules for the disclosure of additional sources of income earned by their legislators. In this context of better data availability, the phenomenon of ‘moonlighting’ politicians (le... Read More about Determinants of moonlighting in the European Parliament.

Within or between jobs? Determinants of membership volatility in the European Parliament, 1979–2014 (2018)
Journal Article

This paper uses duration analysis to model determinants of early exit for all members of the European Parliament (MEPs), 1979–2014, and compares this with existing accounts of between-session turnover in the EP. The notable diversity present in the n... Read More about Within or between jobs? Determinants of membership volatility in the European Parliament, 1979–2014.

Static and dynamic incentives for Twitter usage in the European Parliament (2017)
Journal Article

In this article, we examine the static and dynamic factors that explain the use of the Twitter social media platform by all active Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) during the Fall and Winter of 2015–2016. Our analysis demonstrates that MEPs... Read More about Static and dynamic incentives for Twitter usage in the European Parliament.

Individual Determinants for the Selection of Group Coordinators in the European Parliament (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 University Association for Contemporary European Studies and John Wiley & Sons Ltd Group coordinators are part of a highly influential circle of members of the European Parliament (MEPs). However, there is only scant knowledge about the powe... Read More about Individual Determinants for the Selection of Group Coordinators in the European Parliament.

When time is money: sideline jobs, ancillary income and legislative effort (2017)
Journal Article

Moonlighting, the pursuit of (paid or unpaid) sideline jobs by democratically elected politicians, regularly evokes public outcry. This study provides an empirical test of the claim that moonlighting goes hand-in-hand with a lower degree of parliamen... Read More about When time is money: sideline jobs, ancillary income and legislative effort.

First-order contests for second-order parties? Differentiated candidate nomination strategies in European Parliament elections (2016)
Journal Article

This article examines an alternative logic for candidate renomination to the European Parliament (EP), based upon the size and ideological nature of a Member of the European Parliament’s (MEP’s) home party, as well as timing of EP elections. I derive... Read More about First-order contests for second-order parties? Differentiated candidate nomination strategies in European Parliament elections.

An online electoral connection? How electoral systems condition representatives’ social media use (2016)
Journal Article

Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels? (2015)
Book

This book presents an institutional theory for career behaviour in the European Parliament (EP). By focusing on the professional ambition of members of the EP (MEPs), the study presents a rigorous analysis of the powerful multinational legislature fr... Read More about Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels?.

When the Agent Knows Better than the Principal: The Effect of Education and Seniority on European Parliament Rapporteur Assignment: When the agent knows better than the principal (2013)
Journal Article

This article examines the assignment of legislative rapporteurships to Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). Original data sources are used to test the assumption that committee reports are routinely awarded to MEPs with higher levels of educati... Read More about When the Agent Knows Better than the Principal: The Effect of Education and Seniority on European Parliament Rapporteur Assignment: When the agent knows better than the principal.