BECHER, Michael; BROUARD, Sylvain; GUINAUDEAU, Isabelle

doi:10.1080/01402382.2016.1192899

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BECHER, Michael

BROUARD, Sylvain
Centre de recherches politiques de Sciences Po (Sciences Po, CNRS) [CEVIPOF]

GUINAUDEAU, Isabelle
Centre Émile Durkheim [CED]

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West European Politics. 2017, vol. 40, n° 2, p. 252-274

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Do prime ministers pay an electoral penalty for using procedural force to pass laws? Influential theories of parliamentary governance and legislative bargaining assume that the use of the confidence vote procedure – parliamentary governments’ most powerful legislative weapon – entails an electoral cost, but evidence on this important claim has been scarce. This article provides the first estimates of how prime ministers’ public approval responds to their use of the confidence vote. Analysing time series data from France 1979–2008, it is found that prime ministers experience a considerable drop in approval after their use of the confidence vote that is not accounted for by standard economic and political covariates. The effect size is similar to a 1 per cent decline in economic growth. The findings help explain French prime ministers’ selective use of the confidence vote procedure. They also suggest that political costs constrain the bargaining power conferred by the confidence vote.< Leer menos

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confidence vote

government approval

parliamentary government

legislative bargaining

prime minister

France

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Prime ministers and the electoral cost of using the confidence vote in legislative bargaining: evidence from France

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