Let's Get This Party Started: Vote Alignment and Emergent Party Behaviour in the Canadian House of Commons, 1867-2015

• In Event: Elected Officials in Parliamentary Systems

Brief Overview

We apply network analysis to voting behaviour among Members of Parliament to better understand how party cohesion and discipline emerge, and compare our findings against the Rice index and textual indicators from parliamentary debates.

Authors

• Carla Caruana, Independent Researcher

• David Chartash, Yale University

• Ludovic Rheault, University of Toronto

• Laura B. Stephenson, University of Western Ontario