Conservative Politicians and Voting on Same-sex Marriage

Björn Kauder and Niklas Potrafke

German Economic Review, 2019, vol. 20, issue 4, e600-e617

Abstract: We examine whether conservative politicians are less likely to support same-sex marriage when they run for office in safe rather than in contested districts using new data based on a roll-call vote in the national German parliament. The results show that the margin of the majority for the incumbent in the previous election was a strong predictor for supporting same-sex marriage. When the majority increased by a 1 percentage point, the likelihood of voting in favour of same-sex marriage decreased by around 1.3 percentage points. We conjecture that politicians are election-motivated - even when submitting roll-call votes on a matter of conscience.

Keywords: Same-sex marriage; gay rights; safe districts; vote margins; supermajorities; roll-call votes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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