Prior Career as a Source of Legislative Expertise: How former profession of British MPs shape their issue attention in the House of Commons

• In Event: Elected Officials in Parliamentary Systems

Brief Overview

Using topic model on speeches in British Parliament to determine issue attention of MPs, this paper seeks to determine if Legislators' prior profession affect their attentiveness and influence on related policy issue in parliament.

Author

• Wang Leung Ting, London School of Economics and Political Science