Convert or Replace: Explaining MP Voting Behavior on LGBT Rights

• In Event: Political Identities and Political Institutions

Brief Overview

Using a unique database of over 3000 members of parliaments across four countries, we find that legislative progress occurs via parliamentary cohort replacement which coincides with broader shifts in public opinion.

Authors

• Scott Nicholas Siegel, San Francisco State University

• Stuart J Turnbull-Dugarte, University of Southampton