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The Impact of Formal and Informal Links on the Promotion of Legislative Initiatives (The Case of Russian State Duma of the 7th Convocation)

Student: Vaniushina Mariia

Supervisor: Mikhail Turchenko

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2019

This research contributes to the scientific field, devoted to the study of an influence of formal and informal institutions on political processes. In this paper, the role of intra-parliamentary relations throughout process of passing bills is studied on the example of the State Duma of 7th convocation. Intra-parliamentary relations are regarded as either formal connections (in this case, co-authorship in draft laws proposed in parliament), either informal ones (including civil and educational connections, links to previous jobs, kinship). The theoretical framework of the research is a network institutionalism. It allows to evaluate the share of interactions among individuals and find out a role of these interactions in forming the trajectory of political behavior, that is embodied in the factor of acceptance / rejection of draft laws. For studying a structure of parliament in terms of connections, the analysis of social networks has been used. It has allowed to describe links within the parliament and reveal the most "significant" actors of the network. In the process of analysis, authors have formulated hypotheses about an influence of the deputy’s betweenness' indicator on the probability of passing a bill with its authorship. For checking these hypotheses, a method of linear regression was used, which showed that betweenness of deputy and passing a bill are directly proportional.

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