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Birds of a feather flock together? The survival of underrepresented groups within parliamentary parties, 1991-2015

Marc van de Wardt, Arjen Van Witteloostuijn, Anthony Chambers and Bram Wauters (UGent)
(2021) EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH. 60(2). p.474-496
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This study focuses on the exit of MPs of underrepresented groups – i.e., women, visible minorities and the lower educated– from parliamentary parties. Research has mostly focused on what brings these politicians into parliament, but not on what determines their survival within parliamentary parties. Based on the economic and sociological literature on organisations, we develop the Homophily Hypothesis, positing that MPs from underrepresented groups will be more likely to exit their parliamentary party if their share within the parliamentary party is low. Utilising the PATHWAYS dataset, based on 5889 unique MPs that served during 36 legislative periods across eight Western European countries between 1990 and 2015, this hypothesis is confirmed. These findings have important implications for the literature on descriptive representation and legislative turnover.
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Sociology and Political Science, descriptive representation, underrepresented groups, legislative turnover, homophily, MP renomination, WOMENS DESCRIPTIVE REPRESENTATION, LEGISLATIVE TURNOVER, CANDIDATE SELECTION, VISIBLE MINORITIES, POLITICS EVIDENCE, GENDER EQUALITY, WORKING-CLASS, EDUCATION, QUOTAS, SEX

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van de Wardt, Marc, et al. “Birds of a Feather Flock Together? The Survival of Underrepresented Groups within Parliamentary Parties, 1991-2015.” EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, vol. 60, no. 2, 2021, pp. 474–96, doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12409.
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van de Wardt, M., Van Witteloostuijn, A., Chambers, A., & Wauters, B. (2021). Birds of a feather flock together? The survival of underrepresented groups within parliamentary parties, 1991-2015. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, 60(2), 474–496. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12409
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Wardt, Marc van de, Arjen Van Witteloostuijn, Anthony Chambers, and Bram Wauters. 2021. “Birds of a Feather Flock Together? The Survival of Underrepresented Groups within Parliamentary Parties, 1991-2015.” EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH 60 (2): 474–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-6765.12409.
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van de Wardt, Marc, Arjen Van Witteloostuijn, Anthony Chambers, and Bram Wauters. 2021. “Birds of a Feather Flock Together? The Survival of Underrepresented Groups within Parliamentary Parties, 1991-2015.” EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH 60 (2): 474–496. doi:10.1111/1475-6765.12409.
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van de Wardt M, Van Witteloostuijn A, Chambers A, Wauters B. Birds of a feather flock together? The survival of underrepresented groups within parliamentary parties, 1991-2015. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH. 2021;60(2):474–96.
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M. van de Wardt, A. Van Witteloostuijn, A. Chambers, and B. Wauters, “Birds of a feather flock together? The survival of underrepresented groups within parliamentary parties, 1991-2015,” EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL RESEARCH, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 474–496, 2021.
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