Title
Party Comrades and Constituency Buddies: Determinants of Private Initiative Cosponsor Networks in a Parliamentary Multiparty System.
Abstract
We study Members of Parliament (MP) private initiative (bill) cosponsor patterns from a European parliamentary multiparty perspective. By applying network detection algorithms, we set out to find the determinants of the cosponsorship patterns. The algorithms detect the initiative networks core communities, after which the variables characterizing the core communities can be analyzed. We found legislative network communities being best characterized by the MPs' party affiliations. The budget motion networks, which constitute roughly half of the data, were found mostly characterized by the MPs' home constituencies and only to a limited extent by the MPs' party affiliations. In comparison to previous findings regarding certain presidential systems, MPs committee assignments or gender were found irrelevant.
Year
Venue
DocType
2016
CoRR
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1612.06648
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Antti Pajala100.34
Elena Puccio200.34
Jyrki Piilo371.91
Michele Tumminello4284.81