Legislative turnover: an in-depth look at Central and Eastern Europe

The article examines legislative turnover rates of MPs in 11 Central and EasternEuropean countries using an original dataset of turnover rates and compares themto turnover rates in other democracies. Despite turnover rates being higher than inWestern Europe, there are large differences between individual countries and anoverall declining trend of turnover rates. Utilising multilevel hierarchicalregression models, five most commonly used legislative turnover determinants aretested in regards of their effects on turnover rates. The analysis shows that the typeof electoral system, term length, change in chamber size and electoral volatility allcontribute to legislative turnover.