In this paper we take a close look at some of the particular pathways by which majoritarian and consensual institutions affect governability. We demonstrate that the mix of majoritarian and consensual institutions found within a country can influence these pathways quite dramatically, such that they produce rather different consequences for governability, even when these pathways are relatively...

OBJECTIVE To propose and test a new classification system for characterising legislator support for various tobacco control policies. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SUBJECTS Federal and provincial legislators in Canada serving as of October 1996 who participated in the Canadian Legislator Study (n = 553; response rate 54%). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES A three factor model (Voters, Tobacco indust...

Abstract It is widely thought that lobbyists exert influence over legislators’ policy positions and, as a result, outcomes. One mechanism of the provision expertise. Yet, there little credible empirical evidence lobbyists’ expertise influences legislative Across four experiments fielded with three in two state legislatures examine public measures positions, we find no positions. We do find, con...

In this appendix we present the proofs omitted in “Influencing Connected Legislators.” Marco Battaglini Cornell University and EIEF Ithaca, NY 14853 [email protected] Eleonora Patacchini Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 [email protected] 1 Proof of Lemma 1 Let φ be the  dimensional column vector of voting probabilities with th element equal to . Define η :  →  as η(φ s) = φ−F(φ ...

The paper shows that in an artificial society lawlike rules emerge “as a result of individual action but without being designed by any individual” agents (Hayek, 1944, p. 288) and discusses earlier literature on the topic. The first example that this paper uses is an artificial society of car drivers moving between their homes and their working places on streets with two lanes crossing each oth...

Abstract European Union legislators, CJEU judges and EU law scholars have produced streams of texts which determine both what is how it perceived. We explore these distinct “voices” tell us about the EU’s legal policy priorities using a mega corpus compiling more than 200,000 legislative acts, 55,000 court rulings opinions, 4,000 articles from leading journal. Applying an unsupervised machine l...

This article studies gender differences in lawmaking a context of quotas. I use two empirical strategies to randomize the legislators and text analysis identify topics legislation French Parliament from 2001 2017. Across Houses, find consistent evidence that female work on different than men. show they are most active women’s issues while men seem more involved military issues. provide these pa...

We study a prototypical model of a Parliament with two Parties or two Political Coalitions and we show how the introduction of a variable percentage of randomly selected independent legislators can increase the global efficiency of a Legislature, in terms of both the number of laws passed and the average social welfare obtained. We also analytically find an ”efficiency golden rule” which allows...