Contained or represented? The varied consequences of reserved seats for emigrants in the legislatures of Ecuador and Colombia.
Comp Migr Stud
; 6(1): 38, 2018.
Article
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| ID: mdl-30613469
The legislatures of Colombia and Ecuador have reserved seats for their non-resident citizens (emigrants). This paper analyses the relationship between the formal, descriptive, and substantive dimensions of emigrant representation in their homeland legislatures. The analysis compares the legislative work of emigrant MPs (EMPs) with the legislative work of non-emigrant MPs (NEMPs) in Ecuador and Colombia. It presents a mixed methods approach that combines a quantitative text analysis based on an original dataset -composed of 35,446 floor speeches- with in-depth interviews with six EMPs. The results show that emigrant-related issues are significantly more salient in the legislature of Ecuador and Colombia suggesting that the effect of emigrant-reserved seats is correlated to the size of the external district. Furthermore, the analysis reveals that EMPs have a 'mixed agenda' composed by emigrant and domestic-related issues. Finally, the article shows that the probability of classifying a speech as emigrant-related increases when it is given by an EMP and not a NEMP. This effect is stronger in Ecuador than in Colombia. All in all, the article shows evidence that configurations that allocate several EMPs are more efficient in achieving substantive representation.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
País/Região como assunto:
America do sul
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Colombia
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Ecuador
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Comp Migr Stud
Ano de publicação:
2018
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Alemanha
País de publicação:
Reino Unido