Felix Grey's research while affiliated with University of Cambridge and other places

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Why do politicians rebel and vote against the party line when high stakes bills come to the floor of the legislature? To address that question, we leverage the three so-called Meaningful Votes that took place in the British House of Commons between January and March 2019 on the Withdrawal Agreement that the Conservative government had reached with...

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... The empirical evidence on how voters respond to politicians who had been corrupt, favored relatives or abused taxpayers' money is quite mixed, however (e.g., Karahan et al. 2006Karahan et al. , 2009Hirano & Snyder 2012;Vivyan et al. 2012 The rollcall votes cast by members of parliament (MPs) supply information on which voters plausibly reward and punish politicians (retrospectively). 2 Rollcall votes capture the behaviors of individual politicians in parliament; they often are conducted when politicians confront controversial issues. Examples include Brexit and same-sex marriage (e.g., Kauder & Potrafke 2019;Aidt et al. 2021). Political parties have collective views on such issues. ...
... The first is concerned with the characteristics of those who voted and theories as to why they voted the way they did. The second literature is concerned with the consequences of Brexit in terms of future EU-UK relations, UK relationships with the rest of the world and the implications for the future of the UK economy, governance and indeed the sustainability of the UK itself (Aidt et al., 2021;Born et al., 2019;Chen et al., 2018;Johnson & Mitchell, 2017;Sampson, 2017). ...