The puzzle of constituency service
- 1 June 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in The Journal of Legislative Studies
- Vol. 3 (2) , 29-49
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13572339708420508
Abstract
British legislators face overloaded schedules with conflicting priorities: the puzzle is to explain why they devote so much of their time to constituency service. This paper aims to compare the incentives facing members due to their career structures, role orientations, social backgrounds and constituency demands. This paper re‐examines these explanations based on the British Candidate Survey and personal interviews with MPs in the 1992 British general election.Keywords
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