Extensive research explores women's entry into parliament and their political influence.
However, reasons for women leaving, particularly in the European Parliament context …

Abstract The European Parliament is often presented as a success story regarding women's
representation. Yet, recent studies observe gendered patterns in parliamentary behaviour …

How does biased political recruitment—and the legislation of gender quotas—affect the
quality of representation? The article theorizes that biased selection implies a higher hurdle …

Parliamentarians receive public funding to employ local staff in the constituency. Local staff
help members of parliament to execute their representative duties, but can also become an …

This forum article presents a new dataset on roll call votes in the committees of the
European Parliament in the 2014 to 2019 legislative term. Data on roll call votes in the …

A shift in public attitudes towards gender equality may explain improvements we have
witnessed in women's descriptive representation. However, existing studies rely on cross …

The emphasis national parties put on European Union (EU) issues in their manifestos varies
to a great extent between countries. A systematic explanation of this variation is, however …

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 …

Do party selectors or voters choose more productive politicians? Selectors may promote
quality candidates and have an informational advantage over voters, but quality need not be …

In recent decades, an important field of research has emerged concerning the careers of
Members of the European Parliament. Due to the specific nature of the European …