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 …

Research continues to find gender inequality in politics and political communication, but our
understanding of the variation in the degree of bias across systems is limited. A recent meta …

This article examines the extent to which legislators use legislative debates to engage in
localism activities to cater to the interests of their selectorate in nonpreferential electoral …

This article analyses the effect of electoral systems, candidate selection methods and the
interplay between them on individual legislative attitudes and behavioural norms …

A large strand of scholarly inquiry has built on the assumption that being active in
legislatures helps further representatives' career prospects by enhancing their media and …

Party cohesion is a crucial aspect of parliamentary systems, and it varies across time, parties
and systems. To explain these variations, scholars have set forth the influence of macro …

This chapter analyses two countries from East Central Europe (ECE), Hungary and Poland,
for which territorial-administrative structures differ markedly. It shows that in both countries …

Electoral systems affect vote choice. While a vast literature studies this relationship by
examining aggregate-level patterns and focussing on the interparty dimension of electoral …

This book provides an original argument that rejects the idea of national MPs having but one
'standard'mode of representation. It acknowledges the national electoral connection, but …

Legislators' behaviour in and outside parliament is shaped most crucially by the electoral
rules. Existing studies literature linking electoral systems, personal vote-seeking incentives …