Chris Hanretty » voting http://chrishanretty.co.uk/blog Notes on Italian politics and public broadcasting Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:15:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Abstentions in the Italian parliament http://chrishanretty.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/03/04/abstentions-in-the-italian-parliament/ http://chrishanretty.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/03/04/abstentions-in-the-italian-parliament/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:42:46 +0000 Chris http://chrishanretty.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/03/04/abstentions-in-the-italian-parliament/ I’ve recently been investigating whethether high rates of abstentions and missing data cause problems for roll-call analysis of the Italian parliament. Here are some figures for the 14th Camera. Of the 1,141,673 possible votes (1657 rollcalls with 689 individuals):

  • 23.5% were votes in favour
  • 51.6% were votes against
  • 1.8% were registered abstentions
  • 23.1% were absent — that is, that particular legislator was not included in the roll-call

which, according to this paper by Rosas and Shomer, is high compared to the US Congress and French Assemblee Nationale (4th Republic), but low compared to Brazil or Argentina.

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