Finn forfatter "Høyland, Bjørn"

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  • Career ambitions and legislative participation: the moderating effect of electoral institutions 
    Høyland, Bjørn; Hobolt, Sara; Hix, Simon (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    What motivates politicians to engage in legislative activities? In multilevel systems politicians may be incentivized by ambitions to advance their careers either at the state or federal level. This article argues that the ...
  • Climate politics in hard times: How local economic shocks influence MPs attention to climate change 
    Finseraas, Henning; Høyland, Bjørn; Søyland, Martin G. (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Most countries struggle to implement CO2 reducing policies. Implementation is politically difficult since it typically forces politicians to trade‐off different concerns. The literature on how parties and members of ...
  • Delegation of committee reports in the European Parliament 
    Hermansen, Silje Synnøve Lyder; Chiou, Fang-Yi; Høyland, Bjørn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
    Committee coordinators face a classic delegation problem when assigning reports to their committee members. Although a few theoretical developments have focused on the effects of expertise on delegation, empirical studies ...
  • Electoral Reform and Parliamentary Debates 
    Søyland, Martin G.; Høyland, Bjørn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
    The early twentieth century saw many democracies adopt proportional representative systems. The textbook explanation, pioneered by Rokkan, emphasize between‐party electoral competition; the rise of the Socialist vote share ...
  • Unity in diversity? The development of political parties in the parliament of Canada, 1867-2011 
    Godbout, Jean-François; Høyland, Bjørn (Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)
    What explains the development of legislative party voting unity? Evidence from the United States and Britain indicate that partisan sorting, cohort replacement effects, electoral incentives, and agenda control contributed ...