01643nam a22001217a 4500008004100000100002000041245012200061260003000183300002900213520114200242650010701384773003001491250516b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aWatanabe, Aya    aElectoral incentives and negotiated settlements: Legislative deliberation on the Mindanao conflict in the Philippines  aThe Developing Economics   a63(1), Mar,2025: p.47-69  aSome conflict-experiencing countries undergo both violent and electoral competitions. In other words, electoral competition evolves while nonstate actors struggle to realize their political and cultural demands by arms. Although increasing attention has been paid to the interplay between domestic political dynamics and violent conflict, we still know little about how the electoral calculations of legislators shape their response to negotiated settlement, possibly influencing conflict processes. By examining the congressional records of the House of Representatives in the Philippines, this study conducts quantitative text analyses to assess the impacts of electoral incentives—shaped by executive popularity, district ethnic composition, and the occurrence of conflict-related violence—on legislators' response to negotiated settlement. The results demonstrate that legislators are sensitive to constituents' views on conflict settlement by showing support or opposition to negotiated settlement, anticipating their electoral fortunes in the next election.- Reproduced 

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/deve.12427
  aLatent semantic scaling, Legislative debates, Mindanao Conflict, Philippine politics, Text analysis.    aThe Developing Economics