Parliaments in Challenging Times
3rd General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments
Maximilianeum, Bavarian State Parliament
Munich, June 30 to July 2 2016
Programme
(Version: 04 July 2016)
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Goetz, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Dr. Christian Stecker, Mannheim Center for European Social Research
Dr. David Willumsen, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
CONFERENCE SUPPORT
Vinzent Leitgeb, Sebastian Riedl, Magdalena Pulz
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following institutions:
Overview
Thursday, 30 June
18:00–19:30
Welcome Reception (Main building LMU, A120)
Friday, 1 July 2016
8:30
Registration opens at the Landtag
9:00–9:30
Coffee
9:30–11:00
Panel Session 1
11:20–12:50
Panel Session 2
13:00–14:00
Lunch
14:00–15:30
Panel Session 3
16:00–17:30
Panel Session 4
19:00
Conference Dinner in the Hofbräukeller
Saturday, 2 July 2016
9:00–9:20
Coffee
9:20–10:50
Panel Session 5
11:00–12:30
Panel Session 6
12:30–13:45
Lunch in the Restaurant of the Landtag
14:00–15:30
Panel Session 7
15:30–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–18:00
Panel Session 8
18:00
End of the Conference
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Important information
Guidelines for Panel Chairs and Discussants
1. To keep the work-load manageable, we suggest that the chair and discussant split the
work of commenting on papers between themselves (see the list of participants for
coordination).
2. Keeping time. Each presenter has 12-15 minutes to present his or her paper.
Discussants may use up to 15 minutes altogether leaving 15 minutes for comments and
questions from the audience.
Access to the Parliament
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Friday, 1 July 2016, Panel Session 1 (9:30-11:00)
Substantive Representation
Venue: Saal 1
Chair/Discussant: Matthias Kortmann & Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca
Thomas Zittel: Who Represents the Poor?
The Positions of German Legislators on Welfare State Policies
Tamaki Ohmura: Women Legislating for Women
Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus: When do Women Speak? The Role of Gender in Legislative Debates
Julia Schwanholz: The More the Merrier? MPs' Use of Social Media in State Parliaments
Legislative Organization
Venue: Konferenzsaal
Chair/Discussant: Ulrich Sieberer & Lukas Obholzer
Daniel Diermeier: Self-Enforcing Partisan Procedures
Pirmin Bundi: Legislative Organization and Behavior.
Understanding the Role of Parliamentary Instruments
James R. Rogers: Informational Pathologies of Bicameralism
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Friday, 1 July 2016, Panel Session 2 (11:20–12:50)
National Parliaments, the European Parliament and the Democratic Legitimation of the
European Union Economic Governance (1)
Venue: Saal 1
Chair/Discussant: Ton van den Brink & Léa Roger
Gavin Barrett: The Eurozone: Meeting the Challenge of Representative Democracy?
Cristina Fasone: Towards a Strengthened Coordination between the EU
and National Budgets. Which Role for Parliaments?
Diane Fromage: The European Parliament as a Guarantor of Democracy
in the EU Economic Governance?
Elena Griglio, Nicola Lupo: Parliamentary Oversight in the European Economic Governance: the
Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance
Party Unity and Recorded Votes
Venue: Konferenzsaal
Chair/Discussant: Simon Otjes & Thomas Däubler
Naofumi Fujimura: The Mechanism behind Party Unity: Intraparty Resource Allocation in Japan
Hiroki Kubo: Explaining Party Ideological Cohesion:
Party Labels and Personal Votes in Japan’s Mixed-Member Systems
Royce Carroll, Hiroki Kubo: The Sources of Party Loyalty:
Explaining Intra-party Perceptions of Party Organization and Leadership
Thomas Saalfeld, Henning Bergmann: Delegation and Competition:
The Strategic Use of Recorded Votes in Germany, 1949-2013
Legislative Careers
Venue: Saal 2
Chair/Discussant: Tim Mickler & Richard Whitaker
Stefanie Bailer, Clint Claessen: What Happens after?
An Analysis of Post-Parliamentary Career Positions in Germany and the Netherlands
Raphael Heuwieser: Submissive Yes-Men or Assertive Political Actors?
Party Loyalty of Career Politicians in the UK House of Commons, 2005-2015
Christopher D. Raymond, Murat Yildirim, Marvin Overby: Calling it Quits:
Legislative Retirements in Comparative Perspective
Veronika Ohliger: What Motivates Them?
Members of the German Bundestag in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
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Friday, 1 July 2016, Panel Session 3 (14:00–15:30)
Parliamentary Rules and the Representation of Minority Preferences
Venue: Saal 1
Chair/Discussant: Tamaki Ohmura & Shane Martin
Lucas Geese, Jean-Benoît Pilet, Thomas Saalfeld: Internal Legislative Constraints:
When Do MPs of Immigrant Origin Get to Speak on the Floor of the Chamber – and What
Do They Get to Speak about?
Jorge Fernandes, Thomas Saalfeld: Parliamentary Committees as Contexts for
Descriptive and Substantive Representation
Constanza Sanhueza, Laura Morales: When Do MPs of Immigrant Origin Talk About Immigration?
Thomas Saalfeld, Jorge Fernandes, Daphne van der Pas: Parliamentary Parties as
Contexts for Descriptive and Substantive Representation
Parliamentary Questions
Venue: Konferenzsaal
Chair/Discussant: Stefanie Bailer & Bjørn-Erik Rasch
Jana Paasch, Christian Stecker: Backbenchers to the Front?
Parliamentary Questions in National Parliaments as a Communicative Instrument in EU Affairs
Miklos Sebok, Bálint Kubik, Csaba Molnár, Gábor Szendi: The Functions of
Parliamentary Questions in Hungary (1990-2014)
Tom Louwerse, Simon Otjes: Explaining the Use of Parliamentary Questions
by Parliamentary Party Groups
Marco Lisi, Enrico Borghetto: Parliamentary Questions and Individual Representation
in a Party-Dominated Environment: Evidence from Portugal
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Friday, 1 July 2016, Panel Session 4 (15:45–17:30)
Changing the Rules of the Game
Venue: Saal 1
Chair/Discussant: James Rogers & Klaus Goetz
Anna Fruhstorfer, Michael Hein: Success or Failure of Constitutional Amendments: Explaining the
Variety of Success Rates in Eastern European Parliaments
Léa Roger, Thomas Winzen: Including Elites, Excluding Voters: Informal Politics, Consensus-Seeking,
and the Legitimacy of European Parliament Policy-Making
Karen Schlüter: Representation of Sub-National Parliaments in Brussels – Savior or Lonely Fighter?
Amie Kreppel: From Conductor to Orchestra Member: the Evolution of the Council of the European
Union
Electoral Districts and Representation
Venue: Konferenzsaal
Chair/Discussant: Michael Herrmann & Valentin Schröder
Albert Falcó-Gimeno: The Political Geography of Government Formation
Reut Itzkovitch-Malka: Geographically-Based Representation in Parliament:
The Case of Extreme Proportional Electoral Systems
Hiroki Kubo: Does Intra-District Polarization Cause Party Polarization in Congress?
Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus: Economic Characteristics of Electoral Districts and Legislative
Speechmaking: An Analysis of Debate Participation in the German Bundestag
Coalitions and Policy-Making
Venue: Saal 2
Chair/Discussant: Radoslaw Zubek & Cristina Bucur
Shane Martin, Richard Whitaker: Using Parliamentary Questions to Keep Tabs on Coalition Partners,
Britain 2010-2015
Hilmar Rommetvedt, Frode Veggeland: Parliamentary Government and Corporatism at the
Crossroads: Principals and Agents in Norwegian Agricultural Policy-Making
Lukas Obholzer, Steffen Hurka, Michael Kaeding: Intra-Parliamentary Delegation and Accountability
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Saturday, 2 July 2016, Panel Session 5 (9:20–10:50)
Agenda Control
Venue: Saal 1
Chair/Discussant: Christian Stecker & Christopher Z. Mooney
Simon Otjes: In the Open. Agenda-Setting in the Dutch Parliament
Radoslaw Zubek: Government Agenda Power in Parliamentary Democracies
Michael Koß: Varieties of Legislative Organization
Ulrich Sieberer, Julia F. Keh, Peter Meißner, Wolfgang C. Müller: ‘Going Institutional’ to Overcome
Obstruction: Explaining the Suppression of Minority Rights in Western European Parliaments, 19452010
Executive-Legislative Relations
Venue: Konferenzsaal
Chair/Discussant: Anna Fruhstorfer & Henning Bergmann
José Antonio Cheibub, Shane Martin, Bjørn Erik Rasch: The Institutions of Parliamentarism:
Organizing Executive-Legislative Relations
Or Tuttnauer: Cooposition: The Israeli Parliamentary Opposition 2003-2014
Simone Wegmann: Policy-Making Power of Opposition Parties
Parliamentary Oversight
Venue: Saal 2
Chair/Discussant: Thomas Saalfeld & Hanna Bäck
Sven T. Siefken: Parliamentary Control and Changing Administration
Aron Buzogány: Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations and the
Responsiveness of Representatives
Pierre Haroche: The Inter-Parliamentary Origins of the European Parliament’s Powers
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Saturday, 2 July 2016, Panel Session 6 (11:00–12:30)
National Parliaments, the European Parliament and the Democratic Legitimation of the
European Union Economic Governance (2)
Venue: Saal 1
Chair/Discussant: Diane Fromage & Amie Kreppel
Ton van den Brink: National Parliaments in EU Macroeconomic Policy-Making
Valentin Kreilinger: Normal and Exceptional Activities of National Parliaments in EU Economic
Governance
Office Allocation in Legislatures
Venue: Konferenzsaal
Chair/Discussant: Martin Ejnar Hansen & Jorge Fernandes
Martin Ejnar Hansen: Distributing Party and Committee Posts:
A Parliamentary Theory of Distribution
Cristina Bucur, Bjørn Erik Rasch: Parliamentary Institutions and
Portfolio Allocation in Coalition Governments
William T. Daniel, Stefan Thierse: Individual Determinants for the
Selection of Group Coordinators in the European Parliament
Cristina Bucur, José Antonio Cheibub: Government Formation and Extra Parliamentary Influence in
Government Formation: Do Presidents Favour Their Parties When They Appoint the Prime Minister?
Networks in Legislatures
Venue: Saal 2
Chair/Discussant: Paul Thurner & Simon Otjes
Tim Alexander Mickler: The Room for Manoeuvre of Individual Committee Members - An Analysis
of the Bundestag, the Tweede Kamer and Dail Eirann
Markus Baumann, Dominic Nyhuis: Strategies and Convictions: Determinants of Parliamentary
Collaboration Networks in four European Parliaments
Inger Baller: Different EP committees, different logics for co-sponsorship?
+++ 12:30–13:45 Lunch in the Restaurant of the Landtag +++
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Saturday, 2 July 2016, Panel Session 7 (14:00–15:30)
Role Orientation
Venue: Saal 1
Chair/Discussant: Thomas Zittel & Marcelo Jenny
Thomas Winzen, Jofre Rocabert, Rik de Ruiter: Responsible Parliamentarism versus Responsive
Euroscepticism: The Treatment of the European Union in the Parliamentary Arena
Javier Martínez-Cantó : What is the Role of Parliamentary Parties? The Ascendancy of the Party in
the Public Office Revisited.
Benjamin de Vet, Bram Wauters: Role Orientations & Legislative Behavior of Parliamentary Party
Leaders: towards a Common Ground?
Esther Somfalvy: Giving to the People, Serving the Regime? Constituency Service in Electoral
Authoritarian Regimes
Candicacy and Re-Election Strategies
Venue: Konferenzsaal
Chair/Discussant: Elena Frech & Naofumi Fujimura
Yuksel Alper Ecevit, Gülnur Kocapınar Yıldırım: Legislative Candidate Selection
in Transitional Democracies: The Impact of Individual Attributes on Party Choices
Thomas Däubler: Personalization Incentives and the Choice of Parliamentary Activities
Klaus H. Goetz, David M. Willumsen, Christian Stecker: The Individual and Collective Desire for
Re-Election: Legislative Activity and Elections in Staggered Parliaments
Paul W. Thurner: Committee Networks in the EP and Report Allocation
Party Positions and Dimensionality
Venue: Saal 2
Chair/Discussant: Tom Louwerse & Royce Carroll
Kamil Marcinkiewicz, Michael Jankowski: Strategic party positioning in the Czech Republic: Evidence
from legislative voting patterns
Maurits J. Meijers, Harmen van der Veer: Assessing the Clout of Radical Parties: Differences between
the Leverage of Radical Right and Radical Left over Mainstream Party Agendas in the European
Parliament
Christopher Z. Mooney: Information Sources in U.S. State Legislative Decisions
Caroline Bhattacharya: Mobilisation and (De)Contestation in German Parliament Debates on the
Greek Crisis
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Saturday, 2 July 2016, Panel Session 8 (16:00–18:00)
The Process of Parliamentarization: Evidence from German parliaments, 1848-1949
Venue: Saal 1
Chair/Discussant: Kamil Marcinkiewicz & José-Antonio Cheibub
Frank Haege: Dimensions of Party Competition in Bismarck’s Reichstag:
An Analysis of Legislative Voting, 1867-1890
Marc Debus, Martin Ejnar Hansen: Party Competition, Election Manifestos and Roll Call Votes in the
Formation Process of a Parliamentary Democracy: Evidence from Weimar Germany
Michael Herrmann, Ulrich Sieberer: Bonding in Pursuit of Policy Goals:
New Evidence on Party Formation in Parliaments
Michael Koß: Why Departures from the ‘Legislative State of Nature’ Fail:
The Case of Germany, 1867–1931
Philip Manow, Valentin Schröder: Executive Dominance without Responsible Government:
The Case of Legislative Politics in the German Imperial Reichstag (1890-1918)
Electoral Institutions and the European Parliament
Venue: Konferenzsaal
Chair/Discussant: Jessica Rittberg-Fortin, Stefan Thierse, Steffen Hurka, Eva-Maria Euchner
Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen: How Gender Bias and Statutory Quotas Impact the Democratic
Representation Ensured by Women - Evidence from three European Parliament Elections
Corinna Kroeber, Sarah Dingler, Jessica Fortin-Rittberger: Women’s Substantive Representation in
Modern Democracies: Do Gender Quotas Enhance Policy Congruence between Women and
Representatives?
Eva-Maria Euchner, Elena Frech: Gender Quotas in European Elections and their Effect on Political
Performance in the European Parliament
Stephen Meserve, Joseph Robbins, Frank Thames: Voting at the Margins: Electoral Volatility, List
Placement, and MEP Defection
William T Daniel, Lukas Obholzer, Stefan Hurka: Constructive Tweets? Novel Signals from within the
EP Legislative Process
Parliaments in the Middle East and North Africa: A Struggle for Relevance
Venue: Saal 2
Chair/Discussant: Yuksel Ecevit & Thomas Winzen
Ahmed Abd Rabou: Parliament and Transformation in Egypt: From Clientelism
to Representation and the Way Back
Paul M. Esber: Back to the Future?
The Return of the 1989 Voting Principle and Parliamentary Reform in Jordan
Ebrahim Afsah: The Role of Parliaments in Times of Transition: The Impact of Participatory
Politics on Social Cohesion and the Quality of Governance in Post-Authoritarian Settings
Jan Völkel: European Support for Arab Parliaments in Transition
Larbi Sadiki: Tunisia: Democratization by Parliamentarization
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List of participants
Ahmed Abd Rabou (Cairo University), [email protected]
Ebrahim Afsah (University of Copenhagen), [email protected]
Marufa Akter (Universität Bremen), [email protected]
Hanna Bäck (Lunds Universitet), [email protected]
Stefanie Bailer (University of Basel), [email protected]
Inger Baller (Universiteit Antwerpen), [email protected]
Gavin Barrett (University College Dublin), [email protected]
Henning Bergmann (University of Bamberg), [email protected]
Caroline Bhattacharya (University of Helsinki), [email protected]
Enrico Borghetto (Università degli Studi di Milano), [email protected]
Cristina Bucur (Universitetet i Oslo), [email protected]
Pirmin Bundi (University of Zurich), [email protected]
Aron Buzogány (Freie Universität Berlin), [email protected]
Royce Carroll (Rice University), [email protected]
José Antonio Cheibub (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), [email protected]
Clint Claessen (University of Zurich), [email protected]
Thomas Däubler (Universität Mannheim), [email protected]
Benjamin de Vet (Ghent University), [email protected]
Marc Debus (Universität Mannheim), [email protected]
Daniel Diermeier (University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy), [email protected]
Sarah Dingler (Universität Salzburg), [email protected]
Yuksel Alper Ecevit (Bahçesehir University), [email protected]
Paul M. Esber (University of Sidney), [email protected]
Eva-Maria Euchner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – LMU), [email protected]
Albert Falcó-Gimeno (Universitat de Barcelona), [email protected]
Cristina Fasone (LUISS University), [email protected]
Jorge Fernandes (University of Bamberg), [email protected]
Jessica Fortin-Rittberger (Universität Salzburg), [email protected]
Elena Frech (Universität Mannheim), [email protected]
Diane Fromage (University of Utrecht), [email protected]
Anna Fruhstorfer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), [email protected]
Naofumi Fujimura (Kobe University), [email protected]
Klaus Goetz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – LMU), [email protected]
Elena Griglio (LUISS University & Senate of the Italian Republic), [email protected]
Frank Haege (University of Limerick), [email protected]
Martin Ejnar Hansen (Brunel University), [email protected]
Pierre Haroche (Kings College London), [email protected]
Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen (Universitetet i Oslo), [email protected]
Michael Herrmann (Universität Konstanz), [email protected]
Raphael Heuwieser (University of Oxford), [email protected]
Steffen Hurka (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – LMU), [email protected]
Reut Itzkovitch-Malka (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), [email protected]
Marcelo Jenny (University of Vienna), [email protected]
Matthias Kortmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – LMU), [email protected]
Michael Koß (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – LMU), [email protected]
Valentin Kreilinger (Hertie School of Governance), [email protected]
Amie Kreppel (University of Florida), [email protected]
Corinna Kroeber (Universität Salzburg), [email protected]
Hiroki Kubo (Rice University), [email protected]
Tom Louwerse (Universiteit Leiden), [email protected]
Nicola Lupo (LUISS University), [email protected]
Kamil Marcinkiewicz (Hamburg Universität), [email protected]
Shane Martin (University of Leicester), [email protected]
Javier Martínez-Cantó (University of Bamberg), [email protected]
Stephen Meserve (Texas Tech University), [email protected]
Tim Alexander Mickler (Universiteit Leiden), [email protected]
Christopher Z. Mooney (University of Illinois), [email protected]
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Dominic Nyhuis (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), [email protected]
Lukas Obholzer (The London School of Economics & Political Science), [email protected]
Veronika Ohliger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – LMU), [email protected]
Tamaki Ohmura (University of Basel), [email protected]
Simon Otjes (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), [email protected]
Marvin Overby (University of Missouri), [email protected]
Jana Paasch (Universität Mannheim), [email protected]
Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca (Universität Mannheim), [email protected]
Bjørn Erik Rasch (Universitetet i Oslo), [email protected]
Léa Roger (University of Kaiserslautern), [email protected]
James R. Rogers (Texas A&M University), [email protected]
Hilmar Rommetvedt (International Research Institute of Stavanger – IRIS), [email protected]
Thomas Saalfeld (University of Bamberg), [email protected]
Larbi Sadiki (Qatar University), [email protected]
Karen Schlüter (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg), [email protected]
Valentin Schröder (Universität Bremen), [email protected]
Julia Schwanholz (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), [email protected]
Miklos Sebok (Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), [email protected]
Ulrich Sieberer (University of Bamberg), [email protected]
Sven T. Siefken (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), [email protected]
Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (University of Copenhagen), [email protected]
Esther Somfalvy (Universität Bremen), [email protected]
Christian Stecker (Universität Mannheim), [email protected]
Katharina Terörde (University of Kassel), [email protected]
Stefan Thierse (University of Duisburg-Essen), [email protected]
Paul W. Thurner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – LMU), [email protected]
Or Tuttnauer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), [email protected]
Ton van den Brink (University of Utrecht), [email protected]
Harmen van der Veer (University of Amsterdam), [email protected]
Frode Veggeland (Universitetet i Oslo), [email protected]
Jan Völkel (Cairo University), [email protected]
Simone Wegmann (University of Geneva), [email protected]
Richard Whitaker (University of Leicester), [email protected]
David Willumsen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München – LMU), [email protected]
Thomas Winzen (ETH Zurich), [email protected]
Gülnur Kocapınar Yıldırım (Sabanci University), [email protected]
Thomas Zittel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), [email protected]
Radoslaw Zubek (University of Oxford), [email protected]
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