Legislative Speech and Constituency Representation in Open-List Electoral Systems

• In Event: Particularistic Politics

Brief Overview

Our study sheds light on the representational focus of legislators elected under preferential voting systems – more specifically, we examine variations in legislators’ targeting of local constituencies in their congressional speeches.

Authors

• Eduardo Aleman, University of Houston

• Pablo Valdivieso, University of Oxford

• Sebastián Vallejo Vera, University of Western Ontario