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Legislative turnover: an in-depth look at Central and Eastern Europe

Year: 2025

Type: preprint

Abstract: The article examines legislative turnover rates of MPs in 11 Central and EasternEuropean countries using an original dataset of turnover rates and compares themto turnover rates in other democracies. Despite turnover rates being higher than inWestern Europe, there are large differences between individual countries and anoverall declining trend of turnover rates. Utilising multilevel hierarchicalregression models, five most commonly used legislative turnover determinants aretested in regards of their effects on turnover rates. The analysis shows that the typeof electoral system, term length, change in chamber size and electoral volatility allcontribute to legislative turnover.

DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/2kdsh_v1

Author: Michael Weiss

Language: English

Topic: Electoral Systems and Political Participation

Subfield: Political Science and International Relations

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: gold

Funders: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, European Regional Development Fund

Awards: G1602624745, G291036901, G3735356012, G4167240886

OpenAlex ID: W4414566716

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