When analysts adopt surrogates of actors' political preferences for purposes unanticipated
by the inventors of those measures, they often stretch (but not explicitly assess) the range of …

The literature on the voting behaviour of members of parliament (MPs) has two prominent
strands: the study of dissenting voting behaviour in whipped votes and of voting behaviour in …

This paper examines the relationship between ideological polarization and party disloyalty,
focusing on the moderating role of the status of a political party in the legislature, ie, the …

The question of why members of parliament (MPs) overwhelmingly toe the party line is
receiving increasing scholarly attention. Adding to discipline‐based approaches, party …

The article investigates roll‐call request and its effects on opposition‐voting behavior. It
argues that parties use roll‐call votes (RCVs) as a position‐taking instrument to boost public …

Ideal point estimates, used as measures of state foreign policy preference, are typically
constructed from country votes cast on resolutions in the plenary of the United Nations …

This paper introduces" Semantic Scaling," a novel method for ideal point estimation from
text. I leverage large language models to classify documents based on their expressed …

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In the literature on the determinants of party unity, one pathway has remained largely
neglected: division of labour. Given their workload, members of parliament (MPs) are only …

The governing role of political parties presents them with numerous challenges. This chapter
explores theories of the sources of party influence in coalition government and critically …