The MP Renomination Indicator: A Measure of Elite Continuity and its Importance for Legislative Research

• Sergiu Gherghina ^[1]
  1. [1] Goethe University Frankfurt

     Goethe University Frankfurt

     Frankfurt, Alemania

     
• Localización: Parliamentary affairs: A journal of representative politics, ISSN 0031-2290, Vol. 68, Nº 2, 2015, págs. 393-400
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The literature on legislatures has devoted extensive space to those Members of Parliament (MPs) who return to parliament. So far, less attention has been paid to the number of incumbents who get renominated, a category that includes also those who fail to gain reelection. To empirically examine how many MPs get renominated, we need an adequate indicator. This article presents a measure for the legislative renomination at a party level. It accounts for the number of incumbents, number of candidates and party size. The indicator allows for comparisons across parties and over time. Its greatest asset lies in the broad applicability to all types of elections irrespective of contextual or competition factors.