With, Without or Against Their Region? Dual Mandate-Holders in the Swiss Parliament

• In Event: Political Spillover Between Local Government and Higher Levels

Brief Overview

The paper analyzes conflicts between MPs’ partisan and subnational loyalty. It draws on a new, original dataset from Switzerland covering some 1,000 MPs between 1985 and 2018 to assess their voting behavior in key parliamentary decisions.

Authors

• Alexander Arens, Institute of Political Science, University of Berne

• Rahel Freiburghaus, Institute of Political Science, University of Bern/Switzerland

• Sean Müller, Institute of Political Science, University of Berne