Legislative Turnover in Subnational Parliaments

Portrait

In this research area we investigate legislative turnover in the sub-national parliaments of Switzerland, Austria, and Germany. In examining the strikingly different levels of legislative turnover and explaining parliamentary exits, the focus is on politico-institutional, socio-economic, and socio-demographic factors. The research project is supported financially by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is scheduled to run until December 2013.

Lead: Prof. Dr. Markus Freitag

Dissertations completed

Till Heinsohn: Determinants of Legislative Turnover in the German sub-national parliaments.

Recent Publications

• Heinsohn, Till (2014): Institutional determinants of legislative turnover in the German state parliaments, 1946-2012, in: Journal of Legislative Studies: i.E.
   

• Heinsohn, Till und Markus Freitag (2012): Institutional Foundations of Legislative Turnover: A Comparative Analysis of the Swiss Cantons, in: Swiss Political Science Review, 18(3): 352-370.