This article asks whether and why, in a system lacking electoral incentives to cultivate
personal votes, MPs might choose to signal to geographic constituents. It explores this …

The literature on nomination procedures and intra-party politics shows that engagement in
personalized parliamentary activities helps legislators get re-elected and promoted in the …

While the knowledge on how candidate selection happens is flourishing, remarkably little
attention has been paid to the selection criteria. Why do selectors prefer some candidates …

This study investigates whether female legislators, just like their male colleagues, also
benefit from incumbency advantage in the form of privileged access to candidate selection …

Although evaluations of members of parliaments'(MPs) parliamentary work have gained
increasing public popularity, the academic literature on the concept and measurement of …

In parliamentary systems, party leaderships accomplish party unity by promising positive
incentives to their members of parliament (MP) and threatening them with negative …

Although often theorized, empirical research on the relationship between MPs'
parliamentary behaviour and their chances to realize career ambitions is relatively scarce …

This article examines whether political parties reward the parliamentary activity of members
of parliament (MPs) through candidate selection processes. Previous research on this …

Taking advantage of the new data available from the Independent Parliamentary Standards
Authority, I examine whether members of the House of Commons can craft a reputation for …

Preference voting threatens the power of party leaders in PR contexts to enforce party unity
and pursue policy by encouraging candidates to groom personal reputations. This study …