With more papers to come, including a piece co-authored with @haakongjerlw.bsky.social, @oyvindstiansen.bsky.social, and @liserakner.bsky.social with debates from the founding of the colonial legislature in 1924 and up until 2024, I’m excited to have published the first paper of my dissertation.

Parliamentary work is a luxury good reserved for electorally secure MPs who consider themselves “ministers in waiting”, while less established politicians rely more heavily on constituency service.

I find that electorally vulnerable MPs are less active during debates than more established politicians, despite permissive rules of participation and weakly institutionalized parties.

I find that electorally vulnerable MPs are less active during debates than more established politicians, despite permissive rules of participation and weakly institutionalized parties.