Parliaments in Challenging Times

Transcription

1 Parliaments in Challenging Times 3rd General Conference of the ECPR Standing Group on Parliaments Maximilianeum, Bavarian State Parliament Munich, June 30 to July Programme (Version: 04 July 2016) CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS Prof. Dr. Klaus H. Goetz, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Dr. Christian Stecker, Mannheim Center for European Social Research Dr. David Willumsen, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich CONFERENCE SUPPORT Vinzent Leitgeb, Sebastian Riedl, Magdalena Pulz We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following institutions:

2 Overview Thursday, 30 June 18:00 19:30 Welcome Reception (Main building LMU, A120) Friday, 1 July :30 Registration opens at the Landtag 9:00 9:30 Coffee 9:30 11:00 Panel Session 1 11:20 12:50 Panel Session 2 13:00 14:00 Lunch 14:00 15:30 Panel Session 3 16:00 17:30 Panel Session 4 19:00 Conference Dinner in the Hofbräukeller Saturday, 2 July :00 9:20 Coffee 9:20 10:50 Panel Session 5 11:00 12:30 Panel Session 6 12:30 13:45 Lunch in the Restaurant of the Landtag 14:00 15:30 Panel Session 7 15:30 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 18:00 Panel Session 8 18:00 End of the Conference 2

3 Important information Guidelines for Panel Chairs and Discussants 1. To keep the work-load manageable, we suggest that the chair and discussant split the work of commenting on papers between themselves (see the list of participants for coordination). 2. Keeping time. Each presenter has minutes to present his or her paper. Discussants may use up to 15 minutes altogether leaving 15 minutes for comments and questions from the audience. Access to the Parliament Please note that some security measures may apply. We will inform you as soon as we have further information. WiFi-Connection in the Parliament Inside the Landtag you have access to an open Wi-Fi Please note that you need to click on connect / Verbinden in your browser. 3

4 Friday, 1 July 2016, Panel Session 1 (9:30-11:00) Substantive Representation Chair/Discussant: Matthias Kortmann & Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca Thomas Zittel: Who Represents the Poor? The Positions of German Legislators on Welfare State Policies Tamaki Ohmura: Women Legislating for Women Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus: When do Women Speak? The Role of Gender in Legislative Debates Julia Schwanholz: The More the Merrier? MPs' Use of Social Media in State Parliaments Legislative Organization Chair/Discussant: Ulrich Sieberer & Lukas Obholzer Daniel Diermeier: Self-Enforcing Partisan Procedures Pirmin Bundi: Legislative Organization and Behavior. Understanding the Role of Parliamentary Instruments James R. Rogers: Informational Pathologies of Bicameralism 4

5 Friday, 1 July 2016, Panel Session 2 (11:20 12:50) National Parliaments, the European Parliament and the Democratic Legitimation of the European Union Economic Governance (1) Chair/Discussant: Ton van den Brink & Léa Roger Gavin Barrett: The Eurozone: Meeting the Challenge of Representative Democracy? Cristina Fasone: Towards a Strengthened Coordination between the EU and National Budgets. Which Role for Parliaments? Diane Fromage: The European Parliament as a Guarantor of Democracy in the EU Economic Governance? Elena Griglio, Nicola Lupo: Parliamentary Oversight in the European Economic Governance: the Conference on Stability, Economic Coordination and Governance Party Unity and Recorded Votes Chair/Discussant: Simon Otjes & Thomas Däubler Naofumi Fujimura: The Mechanism behind Party Unity: Intraparty Resource Allocation in Japan Hiroki Kubo: Explaining Party Ideological Cohesion: Party Labels and Personal Votes in Japan s Mixed-Member Systems Royce Carroll, Hiroki Kubo: The Sources of Party Loyalty: Explaining Intra-party Perceptions of Party Organization and Leadership Thomas Saalfeld, Henning Bergmann: Delegation and Competition: The Strategic Use of Recorded Votes in Germany, Legislative Careers Venue: Saal 2 Chair/Discussant: Tim Mickler & Richard Whitaker Stefanie Bailer, Clint Claessen: What Happens after? An Analysis of Post-Parliamentary Career Positions in Germany and the Netherlands Raphael Heuwieser: Submissive Yes-Men or Assertive Political Actors? Party Loyalty of Career Politicians in the UK House of Commons, Christopher D. Raymond, Murat Yildirim, Marvin Overby: Calling it Quits: Legislative Retirements in Comparative Perspective Veronika Ohliger: What Motivates Them? Members of the German Bundestag in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe 5

6 Friday, 1 July 2016, Panel Session 3 (14:00 15:30) Parliamentary Rules and the Representation of Minority Preferences Chair/Discussant: Tamaki Ohmura & Shane Martin Lucas Geese, Jean-Benoît Pilet, Thomas Saalfeld: Internal Legislative Constraints: When Do MPs of Immigrant Origin Get to Speak on the Floor of the Chamber and What Do They Get to Speak about? Jorge Fernandes, Thomas Saalfeld: Parliamentary Committees as Contexts for Descriptive and Substantive Representation Constanza Sanhueza, Laura Morales: When Do MPs of Immigrant Origin Talk About Immigration? Thomas Saalfeld, Jorge Fernandes, Daphne van der Pas: Parliamentary Parties as Contexts for Descriptive and Substantive Representation Parliamentary Questions Chair/Discussant: Stefanie Bailer & Bjørn-Erik Rasch Jana Paasch, Christian Stecker: Backbenchers to the Front? Parliamentary Questions in National Parliaments as a Communicative Instrument in EU Affairs Miklos Sebok, Bálint Kubik, Csaba Molnár, Gábor Szendi: The Functions of Parliamentary Questions in Hungary ( ) Tom Louwerse, Simon Otjes: Explaining the Use of Parliamentary Questions by Parliamentary Party Groups Marco Lisi, Enrico Borghetto: Parliamentary Questions and Individual Representation in a Party-Dominated Environment: Evidence from Portugal 6

7 Friday, 1 July 2016, Panel Session 4 (15:45 17:30) Changing the Rules of the Game Chair/Discussant: James Rogers & Klaus Goetz Anna Fruhstorfer, Michael Hein: Success or Failure of Constitutional Amendments: Explaining the Variety of Success Rates in Eastern European Parliaments Léa Roger, Thomas Winzen: Including Elites, Excluding Voters: Informal Politics, Consensus-Seeking, and the Legitimacy of European Parliament Policy-Making Karen Schlüter: Representation of Sub-National Parliaments in Brussels Savior or Lonely Fighter? Amie Kreppel: From Conductor to Orchestra Member: the Evolution of the Council of the European Union Electoral Districts and Representation Chair/Discussant: Michael Herrmann & Valentin Schröder Albert Falcó-Gimeno: The Political Geography of Government Formation Reut Itzkovitch-Malka: Geographically-Based Representation in Parliament: The Case of Extreme Proportional Electoral Systems Hiroki Kubo: Does Intra-District Polarization Cause Party Polarization in Congress? Hanna Bäck, Marc Debus: Economic Characteristics of Electoral Districts and Legislative Speechmaking: An Analysis of Debate Participation in the German Bundestag Coalitions and Policy-Making Venue: Saal 2 Chair/Discussant: Radoslaw Zubek & Cristina Bucur Shane Martin, Richard Whitaker: Using Parliamentary Questions to Keep Tabs on Coalition Partners, Britain Hilmar Rommetvedt, Frode Veggeland: Parliamentary Government and Corporatism at the Crossroads: Principals and Agents in Norwegian Agricultural Policy-Making Lukas Obholzer, Steffen Hurka, Michael Kaeding: Intra-Parliamentary Delegation and Accountability 7

8 Saturday, 2 July 2016, Panel Session 5 (9:20 10:50) Agenda Control Chair/Discussant: Christian Stecker & Christopher Z. Mooney Simon Otjes: In the Open. Agenda-Setting in the Dutch Parliament Radoslaw Zubek: Government Agenda Power in Parliamentary Democracies Michael Koß: Varieties of Legislative Organization Ulrich Sieberer, Julia F. Keh, Peter Meißner, Wolfgang C. Müller: Going Institutional to Overcome Obstruction: Explaining the Suppression of Minority Rights in Western European Parliaments, Executive-Legislative Relations Chair/Discussant: Anna Fruhstorfer & Henning Bergmann José Antonio Cheibub, Shane Martin, Bjørn Erik Rasch: The Institutions of Parliamentarism: Organizing Executive-Legislative Relations Or Tuttnauer: Cooposition: The Israeli Parliamentary Opposition Simone Wegmann: Policy-Making Power of Opposition Parties Parliamentary Oversight Venue: Saal 2 Chair/Discussant: Thomas Saalfeld & Hanna Bäck Sven T. Siefken: Parliamentary Control and Changing Administration Aron Buzogány: Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations and the Responsiveness of Representatives Pierre Haroche: The Inter-Parliamentary Origins of the European Parliament s Powers 8

9 Saturday, 2 July 2016, Panel Session 6 (11:00 12:30) National Parliaments, the European Parliament and the Democratic Legitimation of the European Union Economic Governance (2) Chair/Discussant: Diane Fromage & Amie Kreppel Ton van den Brink: National Parliaments in EU Macroeconomic Policy-Making Valentin Kreilinger: Normal and Exceptional Activities of National Parliaments in EU Economic Governance Office Allocation in Legislatures Chair/Discussant: Martin Ejnar Hansen & Jorge Fernandes Martin Ejnar Hansen: Distributing Party and Committee Posts: A Parliamentary Theory of Distribution Cristina Bucur, Bjørn Erik Rasch: Parliamentary Institutions and Portfolio Allocation in Coalition Governments William T. Daniel, Stefan Thierse: Individual Determinants for the Selection of Group Coordinators in the European Parliament Cristina Bucur, José Antonio Cheibub: Government Formation and Extra Parliamentary Influence in Government Formation: Do Presidents Favour Their Parties When They Appoint the Prime Minister? Networks in Legislatures Venue: Saal 2 Chair/Discussant: Paul Thurner & Simon Otjes Tim Alexander Mickler: The Room for Manoeuvre of Individual Committee Members - An Analysis of the Bundestag, the Tweede Kamer and Dail Eirann Markus Baumann, Dominic Nyhuis: Strategies and Convictions: Determinants of Parliamentary Collaboration Networks in four European Parliaments Inger Baller: Different EP committees, different logics for co-sponsorship? :30 13:45 Lunch in the Restaurant of the Landtag +++ 9

10 Saturday, 2 July 2016, Panel Session 7 (14:00 15:30) Role Orientation Chair/Discussant: Thomas Zittel & Marcelo Jenny Thomas Winzen, Jofre Rocabert, Rik de Ruiter: Responsible Parliamentarism versus Responsive Euroscepticism: The Treatment of the European Union in the Parliamentary Arena Javier Martínez-Cantó : What is the Role of Parliamentary Parties? The Ascendancy of the Party in the Public Office Revisited. Benjamin de Vet, Bram Wauters: Role Orientations & Legislative Behavior of Parliamentary Party Leaders: towards a Common Ground? Esther Somfalvy: Giving to the People, Serving the Regime? Constituency Service in Electoral Authoritarian Regimes Candicacy and Re-Election Strategies Chair/Discussant: Elena Frech & Naofumi Fujimura Yuksel Alper Ecevit, Gülnur Kocapınar Yıldırım: Legislative Candidate Selection in Transitional Democracies: The Impact of Individual Attributes on Party Choices Thomas Däubler: Personalization Incentives and the Choice of Parliamentary Activities Klaus H. Goetz, David M. Willumsen, Christian Stecker: The Individual and Collective Desire for Re-Election: Legislative Activity and Elections in Staggered Parliaments Paul W. Thurner: Committee Networks in the EP and Report Allocation Party Positions and Dimensionality Venue: Saal 2 Chair/Discussant: Tom Louwerse & Royce Carroll Kamil Marcinkiewicz, Michael Jankowski: Strategic party positioning in the Czech Republic: Evidence from legislative voting patterns Maurits J. Meijers, Harmen van der Veer: Assessing the Clout of Radical Parties: Differences between the Leverage of Radical Right and Radical Left over Mainstream Party Agendas in the European Parliament Christopher Z. Mooney: Information Sources in U.S. State Legislative Decisions Caroline Bhattacharya: Mobilisation and (De)Contestation in German Parliament Debates on the Greek Crisis 10

11 Saturday, 2 July 2016, Panel Session 8 (16:00 18:00) The Process of Parliamentarization: Evidence from German parliaments, Chair/Discussant: Kamil Marcinkiewicz & José-Antonio Cheibub Frank Haege: Dimensions of Party Competition in Bismarck s Reichstag: An Analysis of Legislative Voting, Marc Debus, Martin Ejnar Hansen: Party Competition, Election Manifestos and Roll Call Votes in the Formation Process of a Parliamentary Democracy: Evidence from Weimar Germany Michael Herrmann, Ulrich Sieberer: Bonding in Pursuit of Policy Goals: New Evidence on Party Formation in Parliaments Michael Koß: Why Departures from the Legislative State of Nature Fail: The Case of Germany, Philip Manow, Valentin Schröder: Executive Dominance without Responsible Government: The Case of Legislative Politics in the German Imperial Reichstag ( ) Electoral Institutions and the European Parliament Chair/Discussant: Jessica Rittberg-Fortin, Stefan Thierse, Steffen Hurka, Eva-Maria Euchner Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen: How Gender Bias and Statutory Quotas Impact the Democratic Representation Ensured by Women - Evidence from three European Parliament Elections Corinna Kroeber, Sarah Dingler, Jessica Fortin-Rittberger: Women s Substantive Representation in Modern Democracies: Do Gender Quotas Enhance Policy Congruence between Women and Representatives? Eva-Maria Euchner, Elena Frech: Gender Quotas in European Elections and their Effect on Political Performance in the European Parliament Stephen Meserve, Joseph Robbins, Frank Thames: Voting at the Margins: Electoral Volatility, List Placement, and MEP Defection William T Daniel, Lukas Obholzer, Stefan Hurka: Constructive Tweets? Novel Signals from within the EP Legislative Process Parliaments in the Middle East and North Africa: A Struggle for Relevance Venue: Saal 2 Chair/Discussant: Yuksel Ecevit & Thomas Winzen Ahmed Abd Rabou: Parliament and Transformation in Egypt: From Clientelism to Representation and the Way Back Paul M. Esber: Back to the Future? The Return of the 1989 Voting Principle and Parliamentary Reform in Jordan Ebrahim Afsah: The Role of Parliaments in Times of Transition: The Impact of Participatory Politics on Social Cohesion and the Quality of Governance in Post-Authoritarian Settings Jan Völkel: European Support for Arab Parliaments in Transition Larbi Sadiki: Tunisia: Democratization by Parliamentarization 11

12 List of participants Ahmed Abd Rabou (Cairo University), Ebrahim Afsah (University of Copenhagen), Marufa Akter (Universität Bremen), Hanna Bäck (Lunds Universitet), Stefanie Bailer (University of Basel), Inger Baller (Universiteit Antwerpen), Gavin Barrett (University College Dublin), Henning Bergmann (University of Bamberg), Caroline Bhattacharya (University of Helsinki), Enrico Borghetto (Università degli Studi di Milano), Cristina Bucur (Universitetet i Oslo), cristina.bucur@stv.uio.no Pirmin Bundi (University of Zurich), bundi@ipz.uzh.ch Aron Buzogány (Freie Universität Berlin), aron.buzogany@fu-berlin.de Royce Carroll (Rice University), roycecarroll@gmail.com José Antonio Cheibub (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), cheibub@illinois.edu Clint Claessen (University of Zurich), cclint@student.ethz.ch Thomas Däubler (Universität Mannheim), daublert@tcd.ie Benjamin de Vet (Ghent University), benjamin.devet@ugent.be Marc Debus (Universität Mannheim), marc.debus@uni-mannheim.de Daniel Diermeier (University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy), ddiermeier@uchicago.edu Sarah Dingler (Universität Salzburg), sarah.dingler@sbg.ac.at Yuksel Alper Ecevit (Bahçesehir University), alper@alperecevit.com Paul M. Esber (University of Sidney), paul.esber@sydney.edu.au Eva-Maria Euchner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LMU), eva-maria.euchner@gsi.uni-muenchen.de Albert Falcó-Gimeno (Universitat de Barcelona), afalcogimeno@ub.edu Cristina Fasone (LUISS University), cfasone@luiss.it Jorge Fernandes (University of Bamberg), jorge.fernandes@uni-bamberg.de Jessica Fortin-Rittberger (Universität Salzburg), j.fortin-rittberger@sbg.ac.at Elena Frech (Universität Mannheim), frech@uni-mannheim.de Diane Fromage (University of Utrecht), dfromage@gmail.com Anna Fruhstorfer (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), anna@fruhstorfer.me Naofumi Fujimura (Kobe University), fujimura@emerald.kobe-u.ac.jp Klaus Goetz (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LMU), goetz.lmu@gmail.com Elena Griglio (LUISS University & Senate of the Italian Republic), egriglio@luiss.it Frank Haege (University of Limerick), frank.haege@ul.ie Martin Ejnar Hansen (Brunel University), martin.hansen@brunel.ac.uk Pierre Haroche (Kings College London), pierre.haroche@kcl.ac.uk Silje Synnøve Lyder Hermansen (Universitetet i Oslo), s.s.l.hermansen@stv.uio.no Michael Herrmann (Universität Konstanz), michael.herrmann@uni-konstanz.de Raphael Heuwieser (University of Oxford), raphael.heuwieser@politics.ox.ac.uk Steffen Hurka (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LMU), steffen.hurka@gsi.uni-muenchen.de Reut Itzkovitch-Malka (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), reut.itzko@gmail.com Marcelo Jenny (University of Vienna), marcelo.jenny@univie.ac.at Matthias Kortmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LMU), matthias.kortmann@gsi.uni-muenchen.de Michael Koß (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LMU), mkoss@gsi.uni-muenchen.de Valentin Kreilinger (Hertie School of Governance), v.kreilinger@phd.hertie-school.org Amie Kreppel (University of Florida), kreppel@ufl.edu Corinna Kroeber (Universität Salzburg), Corinna.Kroeber@sbg.ac.at Hiroki Kubo (Rice University), hiroki.kubo2@gmail.com Tom Louwerse (Universiteit Leiden), t.p.louwerse@fsw.leidenuniv.nl Nicola Lupo (LUISS University), nlupo@luiss.it Kamil Marcinkiewicz (Hamburg Universität), kamilmarcinkiewicz@gmail.com Shane Martin (University of Leicester), shane.g.martin@gmail.com Javier Martínez-Cantó (University of Bamberg), javiermcanto@gmail.com Stephen Meserve (Texas Tech University), stephen.meserve@ttu.edu Tim Alexander Mickler (Universiteit Leiden), t.a.mickler@fsw.leidenuniv.nl Christopher Z. Mooney (University of Illinois), cmoon1@uillinois.edu 12

13 Dominic Nyhuis (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Lukas Obholzer (The London School of Economics & Political Science), Veronika Ohliger (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LMU), Tamaki Ohmura (University of Basel), Simon Otjes (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Marvin Overby (University of Missouri), Jana Paasch (Universität Mannheim), Constanza Sanhueza Petrarca (Universität Mannheim), Bjørn Erik Rasch (Universitetet i Oslo), b.e.rasch@stv.uio.no Léa Roger (University of Kaiserslautern), lea.roger@sowi.uni-kl.de James R. Rogers (Texas A&M University), james-r-rogers@tamu.edu Hilmar Rommetvedt (International Research Institute of Stavanger IRIS), hilmar.rommetvedt@iris.no Thomas Saalfeld (University of Bamberg), thomas.saalfeld@uni-bamberg.de Larbi Sadiki (Qatar University), larbiki@qu.edu.qa Karen Schlüter (Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg), karen.schlueter@ovgu.de Valentin Schröder (Universität Bremen), schroder@uni-bremen.de Julia Schwanholz (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), julia.schwanholz@sowi.uni-goettingen.de Miklos Sebok (Centre for Social Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences), sebok.miklos@tk.mta.hu Ulrich Sieberer (University of Bamberg), ulrich.sieberer@uni-bamberg.de Sven T. Siefken (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), sven.siefken@politik.uni-halle.de Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (University of Copenhagen), jsp@hum.ku.dk Esther Somfalvy (Universität Bremen), somfalvy@bigsss-bremen.de Christian Stecker (Universität Mannheim), christian.stecker@mzes.uni-mannheim.de Katharina Terörde (University of Kassel), teroerde@uni-kassel.de Stefan Thierse (University of Duisburg-Essen), stefan.thierse@uni-due.de Paul W. Thurner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LMU), paul.thurner@gsi.uni-muenchen.de Or Tuttnauer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), or.tuttnauer@mail.huji.ac.il Ton van den Brink (University of Utrecht), a.vandenbrink1@uu.nl Harmen van der Veer (University of Amsterdam), h.a.a.vanderveer@uva.nl Frode Veggeland (Universitetet i Oslo), frode.veggeland@medisin.uio.no Jan Völkel (Cairo University), jan.voelkel@daadcairo.org Simone Wegmann (University of Geneva), simone.wegmann@unige.ch Richard Whitaker (University of Leicester), richard.whitaker@leicester.ac.uk David Willumsen (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München LMU), david.willumsen@gsi.lmu.de Thomas Winzen (ETH Zurich), thomas.winzen@eup.gess.ethz.ch Gülnur Kocapınar Yıldırım (Sabanci University), gulnurkocapinar@sabanciuniv.edu Thomas Zittel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), zittel@soz.uni-frankfurt.de Radoslaw Zubek (University of Oxford), radoslaw.zubek@politics.ox.ac.uk 13