Proposal Power and Electoral Success: A Fresh Look at a Natural Experiment

• In Event: Linkages between Legislators and Voters

Brief Overview

We revisit the path-breaking work of Loewen et al. (2014 AJPS), which studied the electoral effects of randomly assigned proposal power in the Canadian House of Commons. We add four parliaments to the two that the authors coded originally.

Authors

• Semra Sevi, Columbia University

• Donald P. Green, Columbia University