Are men and women legislators equally loyal to their parties? We theorize that parties select candidates based on gendered criteria, leading the (s)election of more disciplined women. Moreover, we argue expectations about proper behavior limit legislators’ ability act independently from parties. Using surveys over 800 parliamentarians across 17 African legislatures, find report significantly hi...

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This paper explores a major road to substantive representation in democracies, by clarifying whether demands of rich and poor citizens are taken up the electoral platforms political parties. Doing so constitutes substantial broadening deepening our understanding – countries, issue-areas years that form empirical basis for judging democracies manifest unequal representation; process key pathway ...

Existing work on party systems typically involves essentially static models and pays little attention to the dynamics of party splits and fusions. Our approach explores these dynamics by setting out a simple model of legislative behavior in a parliament responsible for making and breaking governments. This model abandons the unitary actor assumption about political parties models individual leg...

In this article, we seek to explain when and why political parties pressure their members to vote with the party. We model party cohesion as an endogenous choice of preference alignment by party members. Couched in Krehbiel’s (1996, 1998) pivotal politics model, the formal theory advanced here shows party cohesion to be related to the initial preference alignment of party members, the divergenc...