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Procedural and party effects in European Parliament roll-call votes

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  • Bjørn Høyland

    (CICERO, Center for International Climate and Environmental Research and PRIO, Peace Research Institute, Norway, bjorn.hoyland@stv.uio.no)

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I extend the standard spatial model of legislative voting to account for vote-specific party inducements and procedural differences. Focusing on voting in the 1999—2004 European Parliament, I find evidence of vote-specific party inducements in a large share of the roll call votes. Furthermore, MEPs position themselves differently across procedures. As most roll call votes are taken on non-legislative votes, these estimates may overemphasize voting pattern on these votes and downplay voting pattern on legislative votes. As such, these estimates may be a poorly suited for studying within party heterogeneity on legislative votes.

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  • Bjørn Høyland, 2010. "Procedural and party effects in European Parliament roll-call votes," European Union Politics, , vol. 11(4), pages 597-613, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:eeupol:v:11:y:2010:i:4:p:597-613
    DOI: 10.1177/1465116510379925
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