Roy Gava
Biographic Data
| ID | 137770 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Gava |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Gava |
| SIGNATURE | GAVA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0354-5191 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 112 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Can't buy me votes? Campaign spending and the outcome of direct democratic votes
Recent American studies that investigate the influence of money on the outcome of direct democratic votes find campaign spending effective for both supporters and challengers. Taking advantage of Switzerland’s far-reaching experience with direct legislation, this article tests the role of money in a ‘harder’ context, where government plays an active role in direct democratic processes. It assesses the impact of campaign spending on 323 federal vo…
Challenging the regulators: Enforcement and appeals in financial regulation
This article investigates the conditions under which regulatees challenge regulatory sanctions in court. Targets of enforcement have the right to make independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) accountable in court, but IRAs would prefer not to have their enforcement actions challenged. This article argues that, when deciding whether to contest regulators through appeals, regulatees consider the price of harming the regulatory relationship. Regulator…
The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets
Variability in local weather patterns has long been suggested as a major barrier impeding laypeople from recognizing long-term climate trends. However, as humans are able to detect and interpret rapid signal fluctuations, it seems psychologically plausible to assume that they are able to integrate short-term variations of weather variables into their mental representations of climate change. Using a combined analysis of social media and weather s…
Business Groups and Advocacy Success: Insights from a Multi-venue Approach
The influence of co-sponsorship on MPs’ agenda-setting success
This study investigates the influence of MPs’ co-sponsorship activities on their agenda-setting success. It analyses the strategic choices open to MPs who engage in co-sponsorship, the resulting centralities in the co-sponsorship network, and the effects on the success of parliamentary proposals. MPs can develop their co-sponsorship efforts within their party family (‘bonding’) or beyond it (‘bridging’), and they can use co-sponsorship both to re…
Legislating or rubber‐stamping? Assessing parliament's influence on law‐making with text reuse
Law‐making is a core function of parliaments in democratic systems. Yet, we still know little about the extent to which parliaments influence legislation and the reasons why MPs modify some bills more than others. We analyse the degree of bill amendments operated by parliament, by comparing bills before and after parliamentary deliberations with a text reuse approach. We postulate that MPs attempt to overcome the problem of limited processing cap…
Financial Regulation Debates in Hard Times: A Comparative Analysis of Insider and Outsider Pressure during the Global Financial Crisis
This article analyses the nature of policy debates on financial regulation during the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) by considering three elements that shape them: the salience of the debate, the actors that dominate the debate, and the degree of anti-status quo pressure. Theoretically, it contributes to Culpepper’s quiet/noisy politics framework by clarifying its multidimensionality and explicitly introducing the degree of contestati…
How MPs ties to interest groups matter for legislative co-sponsorship
Interest groups as multi-venue players
Policy evaluation in parliament: Interest groups as catalysts
Members of Parliament (MPs) request policy evaluations and use the resultant findings to inform law-making and hold the government to account. Since most elected representatives have developed strong ties to interest groups, one might wonder whether these privileged relationships influence MPs’ parliamentary behavior. This study investigates how MPs’ affiliations to groups affect their demand for policy evaluations. Empirical evidence shows that,…
Self-Selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys
This article discusses the methodological challenges of legislative surveys. Following an overview of different types of survey biases, the article argues that self-selection and misreporting are the most critical problems for legislative surveys. In order to identify the self-selection and misreporting biases, we compare the answers with a survey from Swiss members of parliament with their observed behavior in the parliament. The empirical analy…
Who Europeanises parliamentary attention, on which issues and how? A policy agenda perspective
This paper contributes to the literature on the Europeanisation of national parliaments by looking at the behavioural dimension of Europeanisation in the Swiss parliament. The authors examine the differences in parliamentary interventions on EU-related issues over time, between types of instruments (agenda-setting versus control) and across parties. Moreover, the authors measure the attention devoted to various policy issues and the tone of parli…
Interests groups in Parliament: ExploringMPs’ interest affiliations (2000‐2011)
This research note presents an innovative dataset of SwissMPs’ interest ties between 2000‐2011. The longitudinal analysis shows that the average number of interest ties perMPhas more than doubled: from 3.5 in 2000 to 7.6 in 2011. Since the mid‐2000s, public interest groups have accounted for approximately one out of two ties betweenMPs and interest groups, showing the strongest increase during the period. However, when looking at the most present…
The Media as a Dual Mediator of the Political Agenda–Setting Effect of Protest. A Longitudinal Study in Six Western European Countries
T he study investigates the impact of media coverage of protest on issue attention in parliament (questions) in six Western European countries. Integrating several data sets on protest, media, and political agendas, we demonstrate that media coverage of protest affects parliamentary agendas: the more media attention protest on an issue receives, the more parliamentary questions on that issue are asked. The relationship, however, is mediated by th…
Twenty Years After the EEA Vote: The Europeanization of Swiss Policy‐Making
While Switzerland is not a member state of the European Union (EU), it is strongly influenced by the European integration process. Since the referendum on the European Economic Area (EEA) in 1992, the relationship with the EU has been at the top of the political agenda, and Swiss citizens have been repeatedly asked to vote on EU-related issues.1 Switzerland's European policy has remained a highly controversial issue all along, and it has strongly…
The EU's Footprint in Swiss Policy Change: A Quantitative Assessment of Primary and Secondary Legislation (1999‐2012)
In this brief contribution to the debate on Europeanization, we further expand previous work on the proportion of Swiss domestic legislation that is influenced by the EU (Gava and Varone 2012).11 This contribution is an output of the project Agenda Setting in Switzerland funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (ref.105511-119245/1). In so doing, we focus on questions of considerable normative implications: To what extent are policy change…
The Media as a Dual Mediator of the Political Agenda–Setting Effect of Protest. A Longitudinal Study in Six Western European Countries
T he study investigates the impact of media coverage of protest on issue attention in parliament (questions) in six Western European countries. Integrating several data sets on protest, media, and political agendas, we demonstrate that media coverage of protest affects parliamentary agendas: the more media attention protest on an issue receives, the more parliamentary questions on that issue are asked. The relationship, however, is mediated by th…
Self-Selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys
This article discusses the methodological challenges of legislative surveys. Following an overview of different types of survey biases, the article argues that self-selection and misreporting are the most critical problems for legislative surveys. In order to identify the self-selection and misreporting biases, we compare the answers with a survey from Swiss members of parliament with their observed behavior in the parliament. The empirical analy…
Legislating or rubber‐stamping? Assessing parliament's influence on law‐making with text reuse
Law‐making is a core function of parliaments in democratic systems. Yet, we still know little about the extent to which parliaments influence legislation and the reasons why MPs modify some bills more than others. We analyse the degree of bill amendments operated by parliament, by comparing bills before and after parliamentary deliberations with a text reuse approach. We postulate that MPs attempt to overcome the problem of limited processing cap…
Interests groups in Parliament: ExploringMPs’ interest affiliations (2000‐2011)
This research note presents an innovative dataset of SwissMPs’ interest ties between 2000‐2011. The longitudinal analysis shows that the average number of interest ties perMPhas more than doubled: from 3.5 in 2000 to 7.6 in 2011. Since the mid‐2000s, public interest groups have accounted for approximately one out of two ties betweenMPs and interest groups, showing the strongest increase during the period. However, when looking at the most present…
Policy evaluation in parliament: Interest groups as catalysts
Members of Parliament (MPs) request policy evaluations and use the resultant findings to inform law-making and hold the government to account. Since most elected representatives have developed strong ties to interest groups, one might wonder whether these privileged relationships influence MPs’ parliamentary behavior. This study investigates how MPs’ affiliations to groups affect their demand for policy evaluations. Empirical evidence shows that,…
The influence of co-sponsorship on MPs’ agenda-setting success
This study investigates the influence of MPs’ co-sponsorship activities on their agenda-setting success. It analyses the strategic choices open to MPs who engage in co-sponsorship, the resulting centralities in the co-sponsorship network, and the effects on the success of parliamentary proposals. MPs can develop their co-sponsorship efforts within their party family (‘bonding’) or beyond it (‘bridging’), and they can use co-sponsorship both to re…
Business Groups and Advocacy Success: Insights from a Multi-venue Approach
Interest groups as multi-venue players
Who Europeanises parliamentary attention, on which issues and how? A policy agenda perspective
This paper contributes to the literature on the Europeanisation of national parliaments by looking at the behavioural dimension of Europeanisation in the Swiss parliament. The authors examine the differences in parliamentary interventions on EU-related issues over time, between types of instruments (agenda-setting versus control) and across parties. Moreover, the authors measure the attention devoted to various policy issues and the tone of parli…
The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets
Variability in local weather patterns has long been suggested as a major barrier impeding laypeople from recognizing long-term climate trends. However, as humans are able to detect and interpret rapid signal fluctuations, it seems psychologically plausible to assume that they are able to integrate short-term variations of weather variables into their mental representations of climate change. Using a combined analysis of social media and weather s…
Can't buy me votes? Campaign spending and the outcome of direct democratic votes
Recent American studies that investigate the influence of money on the outcome of direct democratic votes find campaign spending effective for both supporters and challengers. Taking advantage of Switzerland’s far-reaching experience with direct legislation, this article tests the role of money in a ‘harder’ context, where government plays an active role in direct democratic processes. It assesses the impact of campaign spending on 323 federal vo…
Challenging the regulators: Enforcement and appeals in financial regulation
This article investigates the conditions under which regulatees challenge regulatory sanctions in court. Targets of enforcement have the right to make independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) accountable in court, but IRAs would prefer not to have their enforcement actions challenged. This article argues that, when deciding whether to contest regulators through appeals, regulatees consider the price of harming the regulatory relationship. Regulator…
The EU's Footprint in Swiss Policy Change: A Quantitative Assessment of Primary and Secondary Legislation (1999‐2012)
In this brief contribution to the debate on Europeanization, we further expand previous work on the proportion of Swiss domestic legislation that is influenced by the EU (Gava and Varone 2012).11 This contribution is an output of the project Agenda Setting in Switzerland funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (ref.105511-119245/1). In so doing, we focus on questions of considerable normative implications: To what extent are policy change…
Financial Regulation Debates in Hard Times: A Comparative Analysis of Insider and Outsider Pressure during the Global Financial Crisis
This article analyses the nature of policy debates on financial regulation during the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) by considering three elements that shape them: the salience of the debate, the actors that dominate the debate, and the degree of anti-status quo pressure. Theoretically, it contributes to Culpepper’s quiet/noisy politics framework by clarifying its multidimensionality and explicitly introducing the degree of contestati…
Twenty Years After the EEA Vote: The Europeanization of Swiss Policy‐Making
While Switzerland is not a member state of the European Union (EU), it is strongly influenced by the European integration process. Since the referendum on the European Economic Area (EEA) in 1992, the relationship with the EU has been at the top of the political agenda, and Swiss citizens have been repeatedly asked to vote on EU-related issues.1 Switzerland's European policy has remained a highly controversial issue all along, and it has strongly…
Twenty Years After the EEA Vote: The Europeanization of Swiss Policy‐Making
While Switzerland is not a member state of the European Union (EU), it is strongly influenced by the European integration process. Since the referendum on the European Economic Area (EEA) in 1992, the relationship with the EU has been at the top of the political agenda, and Swiss citizens have been repeatedly asked to vote on EU-related issues.1 Switzerland's European policy has remained a highly controversial issue all along, and it has strongly…
The EU's Footprint in Swiss Policy Change: A Quantitative Assessment of Primary and Secondary Legislation (1999‐2012)
In this brief contribution to the debate on Europeanization, we further expand previous work on the proportion of Swiss domestic legislation that is influenced by the EU (Gava and Varone 2012).11 This contribution is an output of the project Agenda Setting in Switzerland funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (ref.105511-119245/1). In so doing, we focus on questions of considerable normative implications: To what extent are policy change…
The Media as a Dual Mediator of the Political Agenda–Setting Effect of Protest. A Longitudinal Study in Six Western European Countries
T he study investigates the impact of media coverage of protest on issue attention in parliament (questions) in six Western European countries. Integrating several data sets on protest, media, and political agendas, we demonstrate that media coverage of protest affects parliamentary agendas: the more media attention protest on an issue receives, the more parliamentary questions on that issue are asked. The relationship, however, is mediated by th…
Who Europeanises parliamentary attention, on which issues and how? A policy agenda perspective
This paper contributes to the literature on the Europeanisation of national parliaments by looking at the behavioural dimension of Europeanisation in the Swiss parliament. The authors examine the differences in parliamentary interventions on EU-related issues over time, between types of instruments (agenda-setting versus control) and across parties. Moreover, the authors measure the attention devoted to various policy issues and the tone of parli…
Interests groups in Parliament: ExploringMPs’ interest affiliations (2000‐2011)
This research note presents an innovative dataset of SwissMPs’ interest ties between 2000‐2011. The longitudinal analysis shows that the average number of interest ties perMPhas more than doubled: from 3.5 in 2000 to 7.6 in 2011. Since the mid‐2000s, public interest groups have accounted for approximately one out of two ties betweenMPs and interest groups, showing the strongest increase during the period. However, when looking at the most present…
How MPs ties to interest groups matter for legislative co-sponsorship
Interest groups as multi-venue players
Policy evaluation in parliament: Interest groups as catalysts
Members of Parliament (MPs) request policy evaluations and use the resultant findings to inform law-making and hold the government to account. Since most elected representatives have developed strong ties to interest groups, one might wonder whether these privileged relationships influence MPs’ parliamentary behavior. This study investigates how MPs’ affiliations to groups affect their demand for policy evaluations. Empirical evidence shows that,…
Self-Selection and Misreporting in Legislative Surveys
This article discusses the methodological challenges of legislative surveys. Following an overview of different types of survey biases, the article argues that self-selection and misreporting are the most critical problems for legislative surveys. In order to identify the self-selection and misreporting biases, we compare the answers with a survey from Swiss members of parliament with their observed behavior in the parliament. The empirical analy…
Financial Regulation Debates in Hard Times: A Comparative Analysis of Insider and Outsider Pressure during the Global Financial Crisis
This article analyses the nature of policy debates on financial regulation during the onset of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) by considering three elements that shape them: the salience of the debate, the actors that dominate the debate, and the degree of anti-status quo pressure. Theoretically, it contributes to Culpepper’s quiet/noisy politics framework by clarifying its multidimensionality and explicitly introducing the degree of contestati…
The impact of local temperature volatility on attention to climate change: Evidence from Spanish tweets
Variability in local weather patterns has long been suggested as a major barrier impeding laypeople from recognizing long-term climate trends. However, as humans are able to detect and interpret rapid signal fluctuations, it seems psychologically plausible to assume that they are able to integrate short-term variations of weather variables into their mental representations of climate change. Using a combined analysis of social media and weather s…
Business Groups and Advocacy Success: Insights from a Multi-venue Approach
The influence of co-sponsorship on MPs’ agenda-setting success
This study investigates the influence of MPs’ co-sponsorship activities on their agenda-setting success. It analyses the strategic choices open to MPs who engage in co-sponsorship, the resulting centralities in the co-sponsorship network, and the effects on the success of parliamentary proposals. MPs can develop their co-sponsorship efforts within their party family (‘bonding’) or beyond it (‘bridging’), and they can use co-sponsorship both to re…
Legislating or rubber‐stamping? Assessing parliament's influence on law‐making with text reuse
Law‐making is a core function of parliaments in democratic systems. Yet, we still know little about the extent to which parliaments influence legislation and the reasons why MPs modify some bills more than others. We analyse the degree of bill amendments operated by parliament, by comparing bills before and after parliamentary deliberations with a text reuse approach. We postulate that MPs attempt to overcome the problem of limited processing cap…
Can't buy me votes? Campaign spending and the outcome of direct democratic votes
Recent American studies that investigate the influence of money on the outcome of direct democratic votes find campaign spending effective for both supporters and challengers. Taking advantage of Switzerland’s far-reaching experience with direct legislation, this article tests the role of money in a ‘harder’ context, where government plays an active role in direct democratic processes. It assesses the impact of campaign spending on 323 federal vo…
Challenging the regulators: Enforcement and appeals in financial regulation
This article investigates the conditions under which regulatees challenge regulatory sanctions in court. Targets of enforcement have the right to make independent regulatory agencies (IRAs) accountable in court, but IRAs would prefer not to have their enforcement actions challenged. This article argues that, when deciding whether to contest regulators through appeals, regulatees consider the price of harming the regulatory relationship. Regulator…
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