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Do voters reward rebellion? the electoral accountability of MPs / Vivyan, Nick; Wagner, Markus

Vivyan, Nick	Journal Article
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2012.

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To hold their Members of Parliament individually accountable for their legislative behaviour, British voters would need to base their decision to vote for an MP at least partially on the extent to which the MP's legislative voting behaviour deviated from that of the MP's party leadership. Voters should evaluate this deviation contingent on their views of the party leadership. MP rebellion can signal that voter-MP congruence is greater than that of the voter and the MP's party leadership. In this article it is found that only constituents with negative attitudes toward the Labour government reward rebellious Labour MPs, albeit to a limited extent. A similar conditional association is not observed on a single issue: Iraq. The policy accountability of MPs is relatively weak and general rather than issue-specific.

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Accountability ; British Politics ; Legislative Behaviour ; Voting Behaviour ; Single - Member Districts

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From doves to hawks: a spatial analysis of voting in the monetary policy committee of the Bank of England / Hix, Simon; Hoyland, Bjorn; Vivyan, Nick

Hix, Simon	Journal Article
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2010.

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United Kingdom ; Hawks ; Bank of England ; Monetary Policy Committee

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What do voters want from their local MP? / Vivyan, Nick; Wagner, Markus

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This article summarises the findings from a study of what constituents want from their local Member of Parliament.1 We make use of a survey technique known as conjoint analysis, wherein we present a national sample of British voters with profiles of hypothetical MPs who vary randomly in their characteristics, activities and behaviour. We find that voters like MPs who are independent from the party line and who do not focus exclusively on national policy work. MPs' gender and experience matter far less to constituents. Overall, voters want a Parliament made up of strong-minded MPs who see their role as that of a constituency representative. This has important implications for parliamentary democracy in Britain.

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Rebellion ; Representation ; Members of Parliament ; Constituency Service ; Survey Experiments

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