Constituency service is a crucial concept for understanding the nature and intensity of the
links between representatives and their constituents. However, studies have been …

The personalization of politics, whereby politicians increasingly become the main focus of
political processes, is a prominent phenomenon in modern democracies that has received …

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

Are European Parliament (EP) elections used to pass judgement on the legislative
behaviour of parties serving in the EP? Do Europeans give a bonus in EP elections to …

The absence of an electoral connection is a widely held assumption in the scholarship on
the European Parliament (EP) and a cause of serious normative concern about the …

This article examines factors that influence voters' knowledge of their representatives, a key
element in securing the responsiveness and accountability of parliamentarians. We argue …

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

The aim of this study is to understand how electoral rules affect citizens' satisfaction with
democracy. The focus is on the extent to which this effect is mediated by the constituency …

Prior research reveals a relationship between various political system outputs and the
citizens' satisfaction with democracy (SWD). The current study contributes to this line of …

This dissertation combines four theoretic models in public economics. The first two chapters
consider welfare and distributional effects within a general equilibrium trade model with …