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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2023
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
Discussion paper No. 161
Verlag: 
Aboa Centre for Economics (ACE), Turku
Zusammenfassung: 
We study the long-term evolution of party demographics and the associated changes in parliamentary speech patterns of various within-party groups in Finland during 1907-2018. We find significant speech differences by gender and university education status, while other MP characteristics - age, white-collar job, first-term MP status, or urbanicity - do not predict speech patterns. We find that when female seat share began to rise in the late 1950s, there is a concurrent increase in speech differences by gender. As the representation of women increased, there was also a shift in speech topics female MPs specialized in. Additionally, we observe a sharp increase in speech differences by education when the seat share of university-educated increased in the 1960s. These results suggest that descriptive representation of these groups may play a role in changing speech patterns, and thus, in their substantive representation.
Schlagwörter: 
intra-party politics
parliamentary speech
descriptive representation
substantive representation
JEL: 
D72
N44
J16
P00
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

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