Effort, incentives, and culture in the Czech Senate

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Authors	ROBERTS Andrew Lawrence
Year of publication	2018
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	The Journal of Legislative Studies
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Social Studies
Citation
Web	článek
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13572334.2018.1477272
Keywords	Legislatures; natural experiment; term length; legislative effort
Attached files	Effort_incentives_and_culture_in_the_Czech_Senate.pdf
Description	This paper uses the natural experiment of seat allocation in the first Czech Senate to assess the effects of incentives on legislative effort. Contrary to previous work using similar research designs, the incentive of longer terms has little effect on the effort levels of legislators. This may reflect the parliamentary context, the newness of the Czech Senate, or, most interestingly, political culture.
Related projects:	Kvalita demokracie: Česká republika v komparativní perspektivě