Parliamentary debate as electoral signaling

Hiroyuki Kawakatsu ()
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Hiroyuki Kawakatsu: Dublin City University

Journal of Computational Social Science, 2022, vol. 5, issue 2, No 5, 1235-1255

Abstract: Abstract To measure incumbent quality as a source of incumbency advantage in elections, this paper proposes the frequency of incumbent appearance in parliamentary debates. The measure is intended to capture the incumbents’ signal of their ability through their activities in parliamentary debates. Using data from Irish elections and text records of Irish parliamentary debates, the proposed measure explains about 10–20% of the incumbent advantage in the data.

Keywords: Incumbent advantage; Text data; Causal mediation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C25 C80 D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s42001-022-00168-6

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