Legislature Integration and Bipartisanship: A Natural Experiment in Iceland
Nearly all legislatures segregate politicians by party. We use seating lotteries in the Icelandic Parliament to estimate the effects of seating integration on bipartisanship. When two politicians from different parties are randomly assigned to sit together, they are roughly 1 percentage point more l...
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ftzbwkiel:oai:econstor.eu:10419/248997 2024-01-07T09:44:10+01:00 Legislature Integration and Bipartisanship: A Natural Experiment in Iceland Lowe, Matthew Jo, Donghee 2021 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/248997 eng eng Munich: Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) Series: CESifo Working Paper No. 9452 gbv-ppn:1780539533 http://hdl.handle.net/10419/248997 RePec:ces:ceswps:_9452 http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen ddc:330 polarization integration intergroup contact voting doc-type:workingPaper 2021 ftzbwkiel 2023-12-11T00:41:16Z Nearly all legislatures segregate politicians by party. We use seating lotteries in the Icelandic Parliament to estimate the effects of seating integration on bipartisanship. When two politicians from different parties are randomly assigned to sit together, they are roughly 1 percentage point more likely to vote alike. Despite this effect, other-party neighbors do not affect general bipartisan voting, as measured by the likelihood that a politician deviates from their party leader’s vote. Furthermore, the pair-level similarity effect is temporary, disappearing the following year. The pattern of results support cue-taking and social pressure as mechanisms for the effects of proximity. Report Iceland EconStor (German National Library of Economics, ZBW) |
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Nearly all legislatures segregate politicians by party. We use seating lotteries in the Icelandic Parliament to estimate the effects of seating integration on bipartisanship. When two politicians from different parties are randomly assigned to sit together, they are roughly 1 percentage point more likely to vote alike. Despite this effect, other-party neighbors do not affect general bipartisan voting, as measured by the likelihood that a politician deviates from their party leader’s vote. Furthermore, the pair-level similarity effect is temporary, disappearing the following year. The pattern of results support cue-taking and social pressure as mechanisms for the effects of proximity. |
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Legislature Integration and Bipartisanship: A Natural Experiment in Iceland |
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Legislature Integration and Bipartisanship: A Natural Experiment in Iceland |
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Legislature Integration and Bipartisanship: A Natural Experiment in Iceland |
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Legislature Integration and Bipartisanship: A Natural Experiment in Iceland |
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Legislature Integration and Bipartisanship: A Natural Experiment in Iceland |
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Munich: Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo) |
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