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Contained or represented? The varied consequences of reserved seats for emigrants in the legislatures of Ecuador and Colombia
- Source :
- Comparative Migration Studies, Comparative Migration Studies, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-20 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- NLD, 2018.
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Abstract
- 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.
- Subjects :
- parliament
Sociology and Political Science
democracy
Reserved seats
Geography, Planning and Development
0211 other engineering and technologies
02 engineering and technology
Bürgerrecht
migration
representative democracy
lcsh:HT51-1595
050602 political science & public administration
lcsh:HT101-395
Political science
Descriptive representation
Kolumbien
Abgeordneter
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Emigrants
politische Partizipation
05 social sciences
Substantive representation
Parlament
civil rights
Legislature
0506 political science
lcsh:HT201-221
Work (electrical)
Salient
representative
ddc:300
Original Article
Ecuador
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
political participation
lcsh:City population. Including children in cities, immigration
Demokratie
Auswanderung
Politikwissenschaft
national state
Non-resident citizens
Homeland
representativity
election
Repräsentativität
Colombia
Wahl
marriage immigration
Representation (politics)
lcsh:Urban groups. The city. Urban sociology
lcsh:Social Sciences
repräsentative Demokratie
Migration, Sociology of Migration
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Social sciences, sociology, anthropology
Demography
Heiratsmigration
politische Willensbildung, politische Soziologie, politische Kultur
021110 strategic, defence & security studies
Migrant
Einbürgerung
Emigration
lcsh:H
naturalization
ddc:320
lcsh:Communities. Classes. Races
Demographic economics
emigration
Law
Staat
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Comparative Migration Studies, Comparative Migration Studies, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 1-20 (2018)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4de08080d2425b5755623d9b1bb7829c