This book examines the content of MPs' activities through which
parliamentarians generate representative claims. Challenging the
idea that studying individual representation is a futile exercise,
this book shows that looking at the opinions and behavioural
patterns of parliamentarians can shed light on some important
questions: What are the interests represented in parliament? How
important are electoral incentives in shaping the role of
representatives? What is the impact of parliamentarians' personal
characteristics? Focussing on the role played by Italian members of
the Chamber of Deputies across a period of more than 20 years, the
study applies role analysis to connect the normative debates on
political representation to empirical studies and is underpinned by
a rich data set of parliamentary activities and surveys on
parliamentarians' attitudes and opinions. The book will be of key
interest to scholars and students of legislative studies, European
politics, Italian studies/politics, and more broadly to comparative
politics.
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