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

Revised throughout, the second edition of this comprehensive and highly respected
textbook continues to provide a thorough introduction to European and European Union …

In many political systems legislators face a fundamental trade‐off between allocating effort to
constituency service and to national policy‐making activities, respectively. How do voters …

How do political elites persist? Populist movements highlight the continued tension between
citizens and political elites. This article reviews some recent research on political selection …

This article addresses a curiously neglected question, namely why do the vast majority of
Finnish MPs—one of the highest levels in the world—hold a seat on the municipal council …

This note examines and tests the determinants of constituency service in the Chilean
Chamber of Deputies. We argue that socio-demographic factors lead towards differences in …

Parliamentary questions are often employed by Members of Parliament to demonstrate their
responsiveness to the needs of the constituency. This article takes advantage from this …

Using the concept of “friends and neighbors”, we attempt to answer a main question: Do
candidates in a primary election perform best in territories where they benefit from many …

This Special Issue addresses the 'what','why's' and 'how's' of constituency service in the five
Nordic states of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Whilst there are some …

This study investigates the localistic behavior of legislators elected under open-list
proportional representation (OLPR), focusing on the impacts of district magnitude, intra-party …