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Selective Accountability: Performance Indicators and MPs' Behavior

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  • Tom Buchot

    (CERGIC - Center for Economic Research on Governance, Inequality and Conflict - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon)

  • Charles Louis-Sidois

    (WU - Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien [Austria])

  • Elisa Mougin

    (CERGIC - Center for Economic Research on Governance, Inequality and Conflict - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon)

Abstract

Performance indicators transform political press coverage, yet their effects on MPs' behavior remain unstudied. Using Nosdeputes.fr, the French website computing such indicators, we address this gap. We compile a comprehensive dataset of press articles, identifying all mentions of MPs' indicators, to disentangle the effects of the website from those of indicator coverage. Performances increase following the website's launch, further amplified by coverage. However, MPs explicitly mentioned do not show additional improvements. While transparency prompts some manipulatione.g., increased copy-pasting-there is no evidence of strategic inflation in amendments or speeches. Thus, indicators enhance collective but not individual accountability, with limited adverse effects.

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  • Tom Buchot & Charles Louis-Sidois & Elisa Mougin, 2024. "Selective Accountability: Performance Indicators and MPs' Behavior," Working Papers hal-04851299, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:wpaper:hal-04851299
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