This article offers an innovative way of understanding gender balance in parliaments.
Motivated by research documenting how newcomers are disadvantaged during their first …

Do incumbents have an electoral advantage and if so, do these advantages differ across
gender? In this study, I estimate the electoral advantages enjoyed by incumbents in 10 …

The representation of ethnic minorities is often investigated through the lenses of ethnic
parties. Much less attention is paid to how parties belonging to the ethnic majority represent …

Our overarching goal in this paper was to both test and identify applications for a
fundamental theorem of replacement-level populations known as the Stationary Population …

Cooptation is one of the most efficient strategies employed by authoritarian regimes and
their leaders in order to survive in power. In most of these regimes, dominant pro …

I analyze the difference in the persistence of men and women after an electoral loss and in
their incumbency advantage, using data from the Canadian Municipal Elections Database. I …

Legislative experience, one of the various indicators of both congressional
institutionalization and political elites' renewal, has been mostly measured by either turnover …

This article identifies the party dynamics that drive candidate turnover, yielding crucial
insights in the recruitment behaviour and nomination strategies of political parties. Inspired …

This article investigates determinants of candidate turnover in 10 European established
democracies with list-PR electoral systems. We identify party and election variables that …

The Paradox of Parliament provides a comprehensive analysis of all aspects of Parliament
in order to explain the paradoxical expectations placed on the institution. The book argues …