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Ideological Diversity of Legislatures and Institutional Change

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  • Danko Tarabar

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This paper presents data on ideology‐adjusted fractionalization of legislatures for an unbalanced panel of 76 countries over 1970–2019. Drawing from the V‐Party database, I combine a wide variety of positions and stances of political parties with their seat shares to construct a new index of lower‐chamber ideological diversity by country‐year. I then employ this index to empirically explore its effect on good‐for‐growth regulatory reform in up to 65 countries over 2000–2019. I provide evidence of an inverse‐U relationship between the magnitude of policy change and ideological fractionalization, and show that policy coherence declines as fractionalization increases. Implications for growth are discussed.

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  • Danko Tarabar, 2026. "Ideological Diversity of Legislatures and Institutional Change," Economics and Politics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 38(2), pages 378-394, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ecopol:v:38:y:2026:i:2:p:378-394
    DOI: 10.1111/ecpo.70029
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