Reducing the Cost of Governing: How Junior Parties Use Roll Call Votes in the European Parliament

• In Event: Strategic Actors in European Union Institutions

Brief Overview

In this paper, we ask how junior partners use voting in the European Parliament to achieve party goals back home. Using roll-call votes from 2004-2019, we find that junior partners behave following vote, office, and policy-seeking goals in the EP.

Authors

• Jeffrey Nonnemacher, University of Pittsburgh

• Jae-Jae Spoon, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus