Although evaluations of members of parliaments'(MPs) parliamentary work have gained
increasing public popularity, the academic literature on the concept and measurement of …

This study reconsiders the effects of uncontested elections on legislative behavior, based on
a large dataset for 2002–2021 that was newly put together for Japan's prefectural …

Over the years, there have been a variety of changes to candidate selection methods for the
Israeli Knesset. As a result, there have been changes in the way the Knesset functions. This …

Traditionally, scholars have always assumed that exercising a local political mandate as a
national legislator intrinsically interferes with the intra parliamentary output. Despite the …

Can voters learn meaningful information about candidates from their electoral campaigns?
As with job market hiring, voters, like employers, cannot know the productivity of candidates …

How do we measure the activity of legislators? I argue that, in addition to using measures
such as how many bills they pass, we must also consider activities such as parliamentary …

Taking Members of the Israeli Knesset (MKs) as a case study, this book offers a comparative
analysis of the various roles performed by Members of Parliament (MPs) within the …

Despite the existing research on how elected representatives use Twitter, there are few
comparative studies and none that considers Israel, a country that differs from most …

Chapter 3 analyzes the procedures governing parliamentary activity on the floor and
suggests the use of the phrase “parliamentary talk” to encompass the legislators' speeches …

This study analyzes the use of legislative and non-legislative tools, which has rarely been
done simultaneously. I collected data about the frequency of use of legislative tools …