A key question in representation is how institutional settings bring about particular
representational roles among legislators. In this regard, the strategic dilemma that …

Nicht nur Verbände lobbyieren, sondern auch Regionen: Ausgehend von der
Interessengruppen-und Lobbyingforschung wagt die Autorin eine Neubetrachtung des …

Traditionally, scholars have assumed that multiple office-holding (ie the combination of a
local and national directly elected political mandate) leads to an enhanced electoral …

The aim of this article was to investigate the district work of members of the French National
Assembly (MPs), namely their contacts with citizens and other kinds of actors on the ground …

We analyze the relation between the holding of a local mandate and parliamentary activities.
Multi-mandate holding can hamper parliamentary work by reducing the time devoted to this …

Participation in organizational democracy is viewed in widely different ways: both positively,
as schools of democracy, and more negatively, as elite pools of democracy. However, most …

Regional and local units try to influence national decision-making in various ways. This
paper analyses one particular channel of subnational influence: multiple-mandate holders …

This study analyses the effect of local authorities in the Swiss cantonal parliaments on the
allocation of special school costs. The empirical findings show that a higher share of local …

The practice of dual mandate‐holding, ie the simultaneous occupation of a political mandate
at the (sub) national and the local level, is understudied in the comparative literature. Dual …

Studies have shown that multiple office-holding, a practice that denotes the simultaneous
exercise of any directly elected municipal mandate and parliamentary seat, is more …